Stupid realization - protein

[Super Hulk]

4 oz chicken weighs 112g and has 23g protein, i thought it was 112g protein,
so i have been eating barely under my weight requirements (roughly 160/day)

what is the other 89 g ?

 

[bigss75]

water, fat

 

[cha]

water, fat

yeah - water and fat.

 

[Super Hulk]

no fat in chiken i eat

 

[bigss75]

That must be some magic chicken, even with all the visble chicken fat removed, there will still be some remaining

 

[Gordo]

Fitday has raw boneless skinless chicken breast at:

Total:118 cal
grams cals % total
Fat: 3 23 21%
Sat: 1 6 6%
Poly: 1 5 4%
Mono:1 8 7%
Carbs: 0 0 0%
Fiber: 0 0 0%
Protein:22 89 79%
Alcohol:0 0 0%


The rest is pretty much water. In muscle tissue total weight, 70-75% of that weight is water.