Frozen Chicken Nutrition Label Question

[Cattlegod]

The frozen package says 100 Calories per 4 oz. I had assumed cooked, but now that I think about it, it might be uncooked weight. It doesn't say one way or another on the package, anyone have any ideas?

 

[ElFenix]

chicken doesn't lose much fat when cooked, assuming it's skinless. it's not like 70/30 hamburger where that 30% largely melts away during cooking.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
chicken doesn't lose much fat when cooked, assuming it's skinless. it's not like 70/30 hamburger where that 30% largely melts away during cooking.

That is what I'm thinking. I just weighted a chicken breast and it was 6.4oz. I will measure it again after I cook it.

 

[Cattlegod]

ok, the chicken weighed in at 4.4oz

now, is the bit of chicken I have worth 4.4/4*100 = 110 Calories or 6.4/4*100 = 160 Calories?

That is a 31% reduction. It is boneless/skinless chicken breast.

 

[sjwaste]

It lost water, so the caloric content should be very much the same. That's why boneless skinless chicken breast is so dry and boring, there's little fat.

 

[slimrhcp]

1 ounce = 28 grams
4 ounces = 112 grams
1 gram protein = 4 calories
112 grams protein = 448 calories

The optimum scenario for a 100 calorie piece of chicken would be 25 grams of protein. It's entirely likely for that chicken to contain a couple grams of fat. In that case figure that 1 gram of fat contains 9 calories. That being said, I think there's a lot of weight that's lost by cooking it.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Its definately cooked weight, as the process involved in a calorimeter to calculate the colries involves burning it.

 

[jiggahertz]

I would assume that's raw, fitday lists 4oz raw chicken breast at 111 cals and 4 oz roasted chicken breasts at 170 cals.

 

[Special K]

I always took it to be the raw values, because there are thousands of ways to cook chicken, and the nutritional label cannot possibly know how the way you cook the chicken is going to alter the nutritional information.