supermarket roasted chicken
#345357 - 05/01/09 10:53 AM
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adobemoes
Reged: 02/23/04
Posts: 118
Loc: Connecticut
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I consider myself fairly well versed in knowing which products are okay for me to eat and which are not, but I found out the other day that the rotisserie whole chicken made by stop and shop (a big grocery story here) got more than half of it's calories from fat!!
I realize the skin must contribute, but can it contribute that much? And if not, what else is causing all this fat?
I was amazed.
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I think it's a combination of the skin and the dark meat. I checked a nutrition website for "Chicken, broilers or fryers, cooked roasted" and looked at numbers for the whole chicken, for breast only, and for dark meat only. Chicken with skin is higher in fat than chicken without and dark meat is higher in fat that white meat.
whole chicken, meat and skin: 63% of calories from fat
whole chicken, meat only: 49% of calories from fat
breast only, meat and skin: 36% of calories from fat
breast only, meat only: 19% of calories from fat
dark meat only, meat and skin: 56% of calories from fat
dark meat only, meat only: 43% of calories from fat
So you should be able to buy the chicken and eat just the white meat without skin (feed the dark meat to your cat or your husband) and be okay. However, I'd double-check with the store just to make sure they aren't injecting anything into the chicken.
HTH.
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They should also list the ingredients.
I love the conveince of rotessiere chicken.
You should be fine if you minimize the skin and dark meat.
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thanks so much for the info- this makes perfect sense now. I forgot about the dark meat!
kelly
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You'll see that fat if you bring home a rotisserie chicken and fridge it for a day. I find it too disgusting to get my hands into. If I am going to use it the next day I always pull it apart and separate the dark and white meat the day I buy it. My hub picks at the skin but I would never consider that! They are only safe with caution as some places baste them with butter or other nasty things.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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