Should you weigh your chicken raw or cooked 🤔 #weighttloss #calories #nutritiontips #healthyeating

[jclarkefitness]

Whether you weigh your chicken breast raw or cooked doesn’t really matter 🍗

Weighing it raw will be a little more accurate as different cooking methods can cause the meat to change weight by different amounts… but there’s not enough variability here for it to be genuinely significant when it comes to weight loss…

The most important thing is that if you’re weighing it raw, you use the raw nutritional info when tracking it in your calorie counting app

And if you’re weighing it cooked, you use the cooked nutritional info ✅

[PanosSelfImproves]

I weigh it and eat it raw. To avoid any potential confusion. I get horribly ill every 2 weeks or something like that, but that must be unrelated

[jessisunderwater]

Wait - it’s because 100g of cooked chicken breast is a bigger portion. 100g of raw will become less than 100g when cooked. Important distinction, right?

[Mumcin]

Best formula for raw to cooked is
To weight it raw, let's say u have 200 g of raw chicken, after cooking its around 140/150g, reason being the water from chicken evaporated,
All the proteins stay the same, just the weight of the final product changes

[mohamedelmdary]

cooking nutrition depends on how long and the cooking way

[jared]

Really great video when I was a new lifter and I tried to track my calories I got so confused about raw and cooked chicken breast because of how much weight was lost through water during cooking

[miguelsanchez]

The nutrition label is going based on it being raw since the chicken is raw in the package. I just measure it raw to stay consistent with the label

[silkalmighty]

Actually, I think it matters a little bit. Weighing the meat raw is better because you reduce the number of variabes when you're trying to analyze the food for it's macro nutritional profile. Depending on how you cook the chicken, it could vary the amount in water content, meaning that 2 cooked breasts with the same weight could be more or less dense in those macro nutrients depending on how well you cook it, precisely because there could be a lower or higher amount of water that contributes to the total weight. In my opinion, if you want the most consistency, you should aim to weight it raw all the time because you don't alter anything meaning that it will be much more of the exact same pretty much every time

[gerardo]

Finally more than 10 years waiting for a video explaining this

[adamyounes]

Weigh it cooked for a couple reasons:
-Reduces the risk of cross contamination (raw chicken is touching less surfaces) which also means easier cleaning.
-The weight you start with raw isn’t what you’re gonna end up with when cooked, making your stats less accurate

[djevans]

Good advice - but please keep your raw and cooked chicken on separate boards!!! Serious risk of cross contamination.

[Emnmka]

It depends on the cooking method as well...

[adamglltt]

I don't weigh it at all, I base my macros off of the entire packet and bulk cook. I have to guess a bit when the wife cooks but 90% of my intake is accurate.

Anything that makes dieting simpler removes the barriers.

[applecidervinegar]

There's so much water in supermarket chicken. I weighed a breast before freezing and after defrosting it lost 15% weight and it still had juices when cooking.

[PalomaKoko]

Where does the change is coming from? If you woluldnt at Oil and just Cook it in Water- would it be the Same? This is very interessting, Thank you!

[Saka-gy]

Cooked gives more protein by availability

[boundless]

How does cooking increase protein and calories? Are you adding protein powder to your chicken as seasoning

[jjbutterbeans]

I don't think cooking the chicken breast is going to increase the calorie count unless you're adding oil or something else to it.

[EnormeEkoH]

Always weights raw, so you know how much you gotta cook

[rayztube]

How did it get 10extra grams of protein