When eating hot chicken for dinner on Thanksgiving, from the perspective of nutrition, should you choose a chicken breast that is white meat? Or chicken legs belonging to dark meat? Controversy continues.
According to the city's regulatory company YouGov, choosing white or black meat is one of the many food disputes in the Thanksgiving Festival; in 2023, the public discovered that 43% of people in the United States prefer chicken breasts, 22% like chicken legs, 25% like both, and neither of them like them.
Academic Nutrition and Dietetics's spokesperson and registered nutritionist Caroline Susie) supplements, she likes to balance nutrition with the protein of hot chicken, and skinless white meat and black are good.
Registered Nutritionist Dennis. Denise Hernandez said white meat is mainly brisket, with lower heat and fat than black meat.
According to the American Agricultural Department, a 3-ounce serving of peeled and roasted chicken brisket (about the size of a deck of gram) contains 125 calories, 1.8 grams of fat and 25.6 grams of protein, while a peeled and roasted chicken brisket has 161 calories and 6.3 grams of fat.
Susi said that protein is important for muscle repair, immune function and cell repair; choosing proteins with lower fat and lower fat content such as white fire chicken can reduce high calcium sterol, heart disease and median risks.
Denis. Elnandez likes white meat. She said that white meat is rich in phosphorus and vitamin B, which is beneficial to bone health and vitamin B, which helps generate energy.
Accredited stomach nutritionist and AEH Nutrition boss Adrian, who specializes in stomach and autoimmune diseases. Adrian Hernandez said that chicken legs belonging to black meat are leaner than red meat, with a slightly less protein content than white meat and a larger fat content than white meat.
However, black meat contains more iron and irrigated, and is also rich in a large population of vitamin B, including vitamin B3, which is beneficial to the skin, kidney and neuronal system, vitamin B2, which helps the growth and development of neo-Chemistry and cell growth, and also contains more red protein, which helps deliver oxygen to the muscles.
Agriculture department data show that 3 ounces of hot chicken leg meat contains 140 calories, 5.1 grams of fat and 23.5 grams of protein, similar to white meat. The heat of the skin is as high as 156 calories and contains 8 grams of fat.
Maggie Lyon, a nutritionist at the University of New Haven School of Health Sciences, supplemented with black meat, which has a higher selenium content, supports internal immune function and oxygen delivery with tinea and iron, and provides antioxidant protection. She prefers black meat, but chooses white meat during the Thanksgiving session, which makes it easy to side dishes.
In summary, white meat and black meat have their own advantages and disadvantages, and can be selected based on personal health goals and diet combinations.
Responsible editor: Gu Zihuan