What percentage of my chicken legs are bone

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I usually buy chicken legs in a pack of four from the supermarket and the packet comes at 1000grams. This would mean that each leg should be 250 grams. I am trying to calculate how many calories are in each leg after I cook them. (I cook them on the bone without the skin in the oven) I usually eat my chicken legs on the go so weighing them before and after I eat the meat is not an option. I am not sure if my chicken legs would be considered...

Originally asked by Mark Osullivan on Stack Exchange (cooking) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I'll refer to this article : Cost and Yield Comparison of Ready-To-Cook Chicken Product by J.H. Denton and D.B. Mellor, Extension Poultry Marketing Specializtis, The Texas A&M University System, Texas Agricultural Extension Service L-2290 This is Table 1 of the article: The table assumes you start with 1 pound of the chicken product, and the quantities in the raw column are the weight of the meat&skin (or meat) that's edible. The cooked columns are the amount of edible stuff after cooking in those methods (so a fried chicken has the coating, meat and skin, for example).

Full answer by Batman: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/82975 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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