Chicken isn't necessarily just chicken!

[gonnabskinny]

Just a heads up! When eating out, beware! Don't just assume that if you order chicken breast that it doesn't have some carbs added somewhere. Really that is true of anything that you don't prepare yourself. Better to ask!!! You don't want to be surprised and hinder all your hardwork!

I know better, but was still shocked today to find that the 1/4 dark rotisserie chicken (which consists of a drumstick and thigh, 5.5 oz.) that I ordered from Boston Market had a full 6 carbs in it. That means over 1 carb per ounce, someplace that you expected there to be none, or very little. I went online for the nutritional information to enter my totals onto my journal and this was what I found. 300 calories, 17g fat, 32g protein, and 6g net carbs! Not a big deal if you are on OWL like I am, but for those on induction, I really don't think you can afford to spend 6 of your carbs that way. The ingredients show that they inject the chicken with a 17% solution that includes sugar, maltodextrin, and corn starch in it and they also have sugar in the apple cider vinegar marinade that they put on it.

[Discolemonade]

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thanks for the heads up, I used to eat their 1/4 white all the time! what a shame!

[ValidRouge]

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It's such a shame that restaurants do this. Really.

The unsweetened iced tea I was drinking 5 days a week for 10 months had high fructose corn syrup in it!!! Had me all messed up. Such a shame.

[gonnabskinny]

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It's such a shame that restaurants do this. Really.

The unsweetened iced tea I was drinking 5 days a week for 10 months had high fructose corn syrup in it!!! Had me all messed up. Such a shame.

It really is! Why do they have to do it? I guess they inject the chicken to make it go further, but how could they add high fructose corn syrup to supposedly unsweeetened tea? That one would really get me.

[PaulaMM]

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I wonder how many diabetics have been inadvertedly affected by stuff like this???

It is truly a shame.

[not2late]

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Be careful about the stuff you buy in the supermarkets too. In the June issue of Mother Earth News Magazine, there is an article about "case ready" meats. Here's a link to the article:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Whole...bout-Meat.aspx

So be aware and read the labels.

[purplebutterfly]

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It is a shame.

I have started buying chickens at Kroger (a grocery store here). I honestly haven't looked at the label, but I suppose I better.

Dang chicken - hackers!

[gonnabskinny]

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Good point Megs! I know that the frozen chicken breasts (I think it is Tysons) is injected with some type of solution too, but don't know for sure what the contents are, so it is worth checking as well. I know that when I looked at the deli in stores for prepared chicken, egg, or tuna salad, they all had stuff added like sugar, corn starch, maltodextrin, etc. as well.

[TyCowboy]

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I think that most of the frozen chicken breasts are injected with a saline solution...something about keeping the chicken breast from swelling and absorbing too much water/crystallizing during the freezing process; though I've never investigated it...I probably ought to.

Ty.

[D14965]

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Right ! I am gonna start a chicken ranch and produce chicken so pure and unadulterated that all the chickens will have little Halos floating over their heads!!!!
I seems that these days everything has additives and to get "unaltered" food you have to pay more...Sheesh -- what has happened to society? What happened to the days when a chicken was a chicken was a chicken and they didnt last unrefridgerated for weeks without spoiling and they werent injected with hormones and additives ?-- its getting to the point where I half expect my chicken to glow in the dark if I turned the lights off!! I am half tempted to have my own little chicken coop in the yard .. but then I would have to do the erky work of ending their poor little lives and I just couldnt do that... I would have them all named of course.. Gladys, Ethel, Madge,Bertha ,Gertrude... on second thoughts I will get my chicken from the store !