Accurate Numbers For Cooked Meat On Bone
I’m not confident about numbers to put in when I measure plain roasted chicken wings, legs or thighs on the bone. Similarly, for ribs. Sometimes it appears authors assume only the meat has been weighed. Sometimes it appears the the whole portion with bone was weighed. At other times I’m unsure if the author is referring to weight before cooking or after roasting.
I have included a chart above that I found online and which has been helpful sometimes.
I measure portions by grams but can convert. I can calculate garnishings separately. Does anyone have accurate numbers for cooked chicken, beef, and pork on bone by the gram or oz ? I’m looking for a reliable source to select for all my plain roasted meat, including the bones I obviously don’t eat, after cooking showing accurate nutrition numbers.
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I was having trouble with this too. I usually try to measure everything before cooking. So I weigh the chicken legs raw. Then after cooking (with various additions) I know they will have lost some water weight etc but I don’t weigh them again. And yes a lot of my chicken leg is inedible. Thank you for posting.
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Hi folks,
These are typical examples of meat in our database. You can assume that the 3oz/85g serving of the T-bone is meat (and some visible fat). The whole chickens would be the same. If you roasted a whole chicken the serving size/weight for these examples, would be the size/weight for the meat, not including bones.