Weighing food - cooked, raw, chicken, brine etc.

Hi all,

So I am a bit unsure and can't seem to find the correct answer.
So I have started purchasing some Rocklands 1KG frozen chicken fillet's and they are injected with brine before being frozen.

Now if I am not mistaken the common practice is to weigh your food before you cook it as depending on how well you cook it the weight afterwards will change.
However with the brine that is in the chikcne how accurate is the raw weight? Also I use MyFitnessPal to count my calories - are most of those weights for cooked or raw food?

Whats the best way for me to track my calories?

Hey bud from what i remember and i am talking under correction but the brine is usually 25% of the weight. So that leaves you with 750g of actual meat from your 1kg brine inj chicken.

Food weight is normally taken raw, a lot more accurate that way.

As for Myfitnesspal have both cooked and raw weights of foods on there list, just choose correctly. Plus Myfitnesspal is very easy to use.

Fakey_AK wrote: Hey bud from what i remember and i am talking under correction but the brine is usually 25% of the weight. So that leaves you with 750g of actual meat from your 1kg brine inj chicken.

Food weight is normally taken raw, a lot more accurate that way.

As for Myfitnesspal have both cooked and raw weights of foods on there list, just choose correctly. Plus Myfitnesspal is very easy to use.

Hmm, alright.
So just take the meat weight and once it has thawed out weigh it and substract the brine % and just search for raw chicken weights on MFP.

Thank you! I shall start doing this.