Chicken Calories
Chicken Calories
Chicken can be a healthy choice for a good diet. And that’s why chicken calories are such an important issue. Some chicken parts have less fat than other types of meat and that means – less chicken calories and less weight for you.
Chicken Calories – The Parts
The difference in chicken calories for different chicken parts can be quite significant. It can range from 110 chicken calories for 3.5 oz of skinless breast to 319 chicken calories for 3.5 oz of back with skin. If you are looking for low chicken calories parts, the breast and drumstick are the recommended ones for you.
Here are some detailed chicken calories numbers (for 3.5 oz of chicken without/with skin)
- Chicken breast calories: 110/172 calories
- Chicken drumstick calories: 119/161 calories
- Chicken thigh calories: 119/211 calories
- Chicken wings calories: 126/222 calories
- Chicken back calories: 137/319 calories
Chicken Calories – The Skin
Fat is one of the key factors for chicken calories. The chicken skin is very high in fat and a lot of the chicken calories actually come from the skin. Removing the skin, you can consume 80-180 less chicken calories, so that would be a very good tip to follow.
Chicken Calories
If you love chicken, like I do, you’re lucky. Chicken calories are easily added to most diets. It’s both healthier than most meat and can taste so good! Chicken calories, here I come!
Cucumber Calories
Like other vegetables, most of the cucumber calories come from carbs. The cucumber’s weight is 95% water, and the rest is responsible for the cucumber calories.
Cucumber calories according to the USDA site:
- single large cucumber (8-1/4″, 300 gr) with peel – 45 calories
- single large cucumber (8-1/4″, 280 gr) peeled – 34 calories
You have to remember that although the number of cucumber calories for a peeled cucumber is lower than the number of cucumber calories for an unpeeled cucumber, that a lot of nutrients are inside the peel. So it is worth while to eat the cucumber and the peel and all of its cucumber calories.
Calories in Strawberries
Strawberries are a prefect example of a natural dessert. Sweet, juicy and delicious. But like other fruits we need to have a closer look at the calories in the strawberries to make sure we are consuming them wisely.
The good thing about calories in strawberries is the fact that a single strawberry doesn’t have a lot of calories. A small one would have only 2 calories. And even a large strawberry has 10 calories tops. So unless you are planning on eating baskets of strawberries, you are not likely to consume too many calories.
Here are a few official numbers about calories in strawberries:
- 100 gr (3.5 oz) of strawberries – 32 calories
- 1 cup of whole strawberries (144 gr) – 46 calories
- 1 cup of sliced strawberries (166 gr) – 53 calories
calories in strawberries
Besides the calories in strawberries, it is good to know that 90% of strawberries content is actually water. And even the sugar percentage is not very high – less than 5% (an apple for example has more than 10% sugar rate).
So unless you are planning on covering your strawberries with extra sugar, cream or ice cream, you can happliy enjoy the calories in strawberries, if you eat them moderately and as a part of a balanced diet.
Bagel Calories
No one can resist the warm smell of a fresh bagel. Lucky for us, the smell of bagels doesn’t have any bagel calories in it. Too bad taste does. Let’s see if you can still inlucde some bagels in your diet.
Let’s check out the good old fashion plain bagel calories (including onions, poppy or sesame):
- Mini bagel (0.8oz, 26gr, 2.5″ diameter) – 67 bagel calories
- Medium bagel (2.5oz, 71gr, 3.5″ diameter) – 182 bagel calories
- Large bagel (3.9oz, 4.5″ diameter) – 283 bagel calories
Now whether you are toasing the bagel or not doesn’t have a real effect on the bagel calories (maybe only a few calories). There is no real difference between a plain bagel calories and a toasted bagel calories since its only water are missing from the bagel.
However if your thinking about buttering you bagel that’s a completely different story and your bagel calories will add up! A pat of butter (5 gr, 1″ sqr) has 36 calories and almost all of it is fat. So you do the math according to how much butter you put of your bagel. Same goes for cream cheese: between 20-50 calories more to your bagel calories.
So next time you visit the bakery, take a big breath and enjoy that delicious bagel smell, but if you are on diet, remember those bagel calories values and choose your food wisely.
Numbers are from the USDA National Nutrient Database
Calories in Corn
There are several types of corn, so the question of calories in corn needs to be divided into several answers.
If you are talking about corn on the cob, there are around 60 calories in corn on cob for an ear weighing a bit more than 2 oz (63 gr) – that is of course cooked, boiled and dried. It doesn’t really matter if it’s white or yellow corn.
Obvisouly, answering the calories in corn question for corn on the cob does not include the calories in the butter you are adding on it! Even a small amount of butter can add around 40 calories to your corn on the cob! So if want to keep the calories in corn low, forget about the butter.
Moving on to canned corn, there is such a variety that it is difficult to state exactly the amount of calories in corn: vaccum pack, cream style, drained or not. Generally speaking in 3.5 oz (100 gr) of canned corn there are between 60 and 80 calories. You can check the USDA site for your specific can.
And last – popcorn! Perhaps the best corn there is. So how many calories in popcorn vs calories in corn? Well, if you are looking into those “standard” weights like 3.5 oz of popcorn, you’ll get 387 calories for air popped corn and 429 calories in corn that was popped in a microwave. But if you are only looking for a small snack, like a cup of popcorn, you’ll consume only 30-40 calories.
When talking about your diet, the question of calories in corn is similar to other nutrition questions. The answer is: check the label, don’t over eat and make sure you choose healthy foods.
