This may have been asked many times before, apologies search didn’t help,
doing some spread sheets to keep track using chronometer brought this to my attention,
for example skin on roast chicken 100gms is 21gms protein 17gms fat 0 carbs
so for me at 70kg @ 0.8gms of protein per day, do I eat 300gms of chicken = aprox 70gms of protein??
is this correct,
if so no wonder i’ve been shedding fat like a snail leaving a trail,
Does one measure protein by content or product weight?
sisotek
(Sisotek)
#1
kib
(karen)
#2
I’m not really sure what you mean by “content”. if you weigh 70 kilograms and you want to eat .8 grams of protein per kilogram, that’s 56 grams of protein a day. If 100 grams of chicken skin has 21 grams of protein, then you’d want to eat 266 grams of chicken skin. (56/21*100)
Chicken skin is a complicated example because the fat content (and therefore the total weight) will vary so much depending on how it’s prepared. I’d guess the best way to do it if you only want to know the protein content would be to weigh it raw and calculate the grams (making sure that the chart specifies raw skin) before cooking. The protein grams shouldn’t change.
Just because I feel particularly nerdy this evening, if you wanted to calculate the fat content of the final product, you’d take the original weight of the raw skin, subtract the number of grams of protein you figured out, and then after cooking, weigh and subtract the number of grams of fat left in the pan. … Or you could just eat it and not worry so much. 
sisotek
(Sisotek)
#3
Hi Karen
thanks for replying you have answered my quest anyway and should apologies for the confusion, i meant skin on roast chicken, meaning eating the chicken with the skin also, but yes the calculation is what help thank you,
me i’m feeling dumb and in pain this morning i binged so much after a 7 day water fast my kidneys are swollen and my eye sight is blurred,
many thanks