10 Delicious Chicken Breast Nutrition Facts
1. A cooked 3.5 oz. skinless chicken breast contains 165 calories, 31 grams of protein, and 3.6 grams of fat, making it the healthiest part of the chicken.
2. While McDonald’s Chicken Select Premium Breast Strips may sound healthy, they actually contain over 600 calories and over 30 grams of fat.
3. Chicken breast is low in sodium—a 3.5 ounce serving has 74 milligrams, well under the 1,500 milligram daily recommended limit.
4. Chicken breast with the skin on contains almost 35 extra calories and 4 grams of extra fat.
5. Chicken contains selenium, a compound that helps fight cancer. Selenium may also decrease the likelihood of contracting cardiovascular and neurological diseases.
6. Chicken meat gives you a dose of vitamins B6 and B3, which help your body digest carbohydrates and generate energy.
7. Preparing a good portion of meat is essential to ensuring proper health benefits—if you don’t have a scale, look for cuts of meat about the size of a deck of cards.
8. Boneless, skinless chicken breast is the most expensive cut of chicken.
9. Some chicken producers inject the meat with salt solutions to preserve them, so be sure to check the sodium levels before purchase.
10. American actor Matt Damon almost died after eating only chicken breasts in preparation for his role in Courage Under Fire due to a lack of important nutrients not contained in chicken.
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