Chicken Crisis

[danian1]

I’ve been eating tons of chicken breasts since I started lifting a year ago, and have always weighed the chicken for every meal on a digital scale, 150 grams for about 35 grams of protein. Yesterday I weighed the chicken after I had cooked it, and it had lost 50 grams!! I always figured that it would lose weight, but not this much.

My question is: If I cook 150 grams of chicken, am I losing 50 grams of only water weight or am I losing protein too?

[Doug_Adams]

You’re losing water and fat (if any is on there). Don’t worry about it.

[RSGZ]

1st google result says:

How much the chicken shrinks depends on cooking method and moisture content. For example, 100g of RAW chick is ~22 g protein. However, if you’re measuring AFTER cooking, 170 g of RAW chicken cooks down to about 100 g COOKED. This is why it’s necessary to measure afterwards. So 100 g COOKED, is 150 cals, and just over 30 g. protein.