Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: supermarket roasted chicken

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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