Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition
1 medium breast (120 g) of chicken breast, grilled without sauce, skin removed has about 211 calories. Choose your preparation and adjust the amount below.
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Estimated for 1 medium breast · 120 g
211calories
Chicken breast, grilled without sauce, skin not eaten
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Choose the cooked chicken preparation you ate, including skin, coating, and sauce, then enter the edible cooked weight. One chicken breast is not a fixed amount.
A worked portion example
Illustrative calculation: 1 medium breast weighs 120 g using the linked record's portion weight. At 176 calories per 100 g, 120 × 176 ÷ 100 = about 211 calories and 35.5 g protein. This is the grilled-without-sauce, skin-not-eaten example. Use your actual cooked weight and preparation when they differ.
Check the exact food and household measure →The selected grilled, skin-not-eaten example lists small, medium, and large breasts as 105, 120, and 135 g. If yours differs, use grams. Exclude bones and skin you leave behind. Wording such as 'from raw' in a roasted record describes how it was prepared; it does not turn the finished-food entry into a raw weight.
The selected grilled-without-sauce example includes oil among its ingredients. Other entries distinguish skin eaten, coating eaten, and sauce. If you know the amount of oil or marinade in your own batch, a recipe calculation can represent it more specifically than a broad prepared-food example.
If you weigh the raw chicken for meal prep, use matching raw-ingredient nutrition plus the other recipe ingredients. Divide the finished recipe across the cooked portions by weight. Do not multiply a raw weight by this cooked chicken's per-100-g values.
Editorial update: . Portion examples are calculations from the linked USDA records.
The 27 exact records in this guide report 173–478 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 144–273 calories per 100 grams. Those are observations from named database records—not a universal range or an estimate of an unseen plate.
Across all 27 named USDA examples, a cup, cooked, diced contains 194–369 calories. Their listed weights span 135–165 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.
Match my meal
For Chicken breast, begin by separating “Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant” from “Chicken breast, stewed, skin not eaten.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.
Showing the first 6 of 27 linked records.
Equal-weight view
Five rank landmarks are shown from all 27 cited records: minimum, 25th-ranked, median-ranked, 75th-ranked, and maximum. Weight is held at 100 grams; source-serving weights are listed in the table.
Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories
What this page compares
This guide keeps 27 named USDA records in view: 27 direct matches. All sit within “Chicken, whole pieces.” The exact descriptions remain the unit of comparison; the familiar heading is only the doorway into the evidence.
Why these records appear together: The deterministic grouping rule “normalized first description segment” placed these 27 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken breast.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.
For Chicken breast, this page can compare 27 named records from FDC 2705959 through FDC 2705966. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.
Read the shared calculation, provenance, and uncertainty method →
Editor’s decision brief
Carry the denominator, exact identity, and strongest observed contrast into every number below.
Portion
The largest source amount is 1.5× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.
Composition
The lower endpoint is “baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from pre-cooked”; the higher is “fried, …, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.
Discriminator
Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw” (299 mg) and “Chicken breast, … food / restaurant · FDC 2705978” (549 mg).
Observed source examples
The cards are ordered by calories in each record's listed serving. Serving weights differ, so use per-100-gram values to compare composition. These selected records do not define a calorie range for every chicken breast.
173kcal
120 g source amount · 144 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record250kcal
130 g source amount · 192 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record478kcal
175 g source amount · 273 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact recordImportant: “Lower” begins with Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from pre-cooked; “higher” ends with Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every chicken breast meal.
Full comparison
For Chicken breast, serving columns preserve each record’s own listed amount, while calories per 100 g hold weight constant. A dash means the cited record does not supply that field; it does not mean the nutrient is absent.
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| Exact source record | Match | Source amount | Calories | kcal / 100 g | Protein | Fiber | Sodium | USDA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 268 kcal | 206 | 33.4 g | 0 g | 528 mg | FDC 2705959 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from pre-cooked | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 228 kcal | 175 | 34.3 g | 0 g | 428 mg | FDC 2705957 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from fast food / restaurant | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 211 kcal | 176 | 35.5 g | 0 g | 516 mg | FDC 2705960 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from pre-cooked | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 173 kcal | 144 | 33.6 g | 0 g | 394 mg | FDC 2705958 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted with marinade, skin eaten, from raw | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 265 kcal | 204 | 32.9 g | 0 g | 519 mg | FDC 2705961 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted with marinade, skin not eaten, from raw | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 210 kcal | 175 | 34.9 g | 0 g | 508 mg | FDC 2705962 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin eaten, from raw | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 250 kcal | 192 | 34.1 g | 0 g | 437 mg | FDC 2705955 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 193 kcal | 161 | 36.2 g | 0 g | 432 mg | FDC 2705956 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked, coated, skin / coating eaten | Direct name match | 175 gUSDA reference amount | 362 kcal | 207 | 41.7 g | 0.4 g | 560 mg | FDC 2705980 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, baked, coated, skin / coating not eaten | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 211 kcal | 176 | 35.5 g | 0 g | 424 mg | FDC 2705981 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw | Direct name match | 165 gUSDA reference amount | 361 kcal | 219 | 40.6 g | 0.3 g | 525 mg | FDC 2705975 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant | Direct name match | 175 gUSDA reference amount | 478 kcal | 273 | 33.8 g | 0.5 g | 961 mg | FDC 2705978 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from pre-cooked | Direct name match | 175 gUSDA reference amount | 438 kcal | 250 | 36.1 g | 0.5 g | 579 mg | FDC 2705976 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw | Direct name match | 175 gUSDA reference amount | 425 kcal | 243 | 37.6 g | 0.4 g | 523 mg | FDC 2705973 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 256 kcal | 213 | 27.4 g | 0.2 g | 523 mg | FDC 2705979 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 211 kcal | 176 | 35.5 g | 0 g | 424 mg | FDC 2705977 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 211 kcal | 176 | 35.5 g | 0 g | 424 mg | FDC 2705974 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, grilled with sauce, skin eaten | Direct name match | 175 gUSDA reference amount | 354 kcal | 202 | 37.1 g | 0.4 g | 795 mg | FDC 2705969 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, grilled with sauce, skin not eaten | Direct name match | 165 gUSDA reference amount | 294 kcal | 178 | 40.1 g | 0.3 g | 780 mg | FDC 2705970 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, grilled without sauce, skin eaten | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 268 kcal | 206 | 33.4 g | 0 g | 428 mg | FDC 2705967 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, grilled without sauce, skin not eaten | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 211 kcal | 176 | 35.5 g | 0 g | 424 mg | FDC 2705968 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, rotisserie, skin eaten | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 228 kcal | 175 | 34.3 g | 0 g | 428 mg | FDC 2705963 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, rotisserie, skin not eaten | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 173 kcal | 144 | 33.6 g | 0 g | 394 mg | FDC 2705964 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, sauteed, skin eaten | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 268 kcal | 206 | 33.4 g | 0 g | 428 mg | FDC 2705971 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, sauteed, skin not eaten | Direct name match | 120 gUSDA reference amount | 211 kcal | 176 | 35.5 g | 0 g | 424 mg | FDC 2705972 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, stewed, skin eaten | Direct name match | 150 gUSDA reference amount | 272 kcal | 181 | 37.1 g | 0 g | 474 mg | FDC 2705965 ↗ |
| Chicken breast, stewed, skin not eaten | Direct name match | 140 gUSDA reference amount | 209 kcal | 149 | 39.2 g | 0 g | 466 mg | FDC 2705966 ↗ |
Portion analysis
The listed source amounts run from 120 to 175 grams—a 55-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 173 calories for “baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from pre-cooked” to 478 for “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from pre-cooked” is 144 calories and “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant” is 273—a fixed-weight separation of 129 calories. For Chicken breast, the serving view answers “how much is in the database portion?”; the 100-gram view answers “how concentrated is the matched record?” Neither reveals how many grams were actually eaten.
The scaling rule: multiply a per-100-gram value by eaten grams ÷ 100. The arithmetic is exact; the result is only as defensible as the record match and portion estimate.
Preparation analysis
The published descriptions distinguish forms such as “baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw”, “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw”, “grilled without sauce, skin not eaten”, and “stewed, skin not eaten”. The source formulations contain 13 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include vegetable oil, nfs, chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw, chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin eaten, from raw, and salt, table. On this Chicken breast page, those rows make the records inspectable, but they are not a controlled experiment: they cannot tell us that one named input, by itself, caused a nutrient difference.
Database precision is not meal certainty. Retain the exact description beside the number so later corrections remain possible.
What changes the comparison
The family label “Chicken breast” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken breast, stewed, skin not eaten. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.
The source amounts span 120–175 grams. Compare per 100 grams before reading a serving-calorie gap as a composition gap.
Representative record-level distinctions include “baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw”, “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw”, “grilled without sauce, skin not eaten”, and “stewed, skin not eaten”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.
13 source-input codes appear across the selected records. Their presence and listed weights describe USDA formulations, not finished plated proportions.
Even “Chicken breast, …, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken breast unknowns for correction instead of converting them into false precision.
Record matching
Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that chicken breast is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “baked, coated, skin / coating not eaten”, “grilled with sauce, skin eaten”, and “stewed, skin not eaten”—before comparing gram weight. If a package, menu, or known recipe provides a closer first-party description, prefer it and keep this USDA record as a transparent fallback.
Explore this meal family
Use a focused guide when its description matches your meal. Each one keeps its own exact source records and links back to this broader family.
Decision support from the exact records on this page
These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 27 exact records behind Chicken breast source-record guide. Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.
Equal-weight result
Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant reports 10.7 g versus 0 g for Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant: a 10.7 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.
Inspect the underlying evidenceThe denominator changes the answer
Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant reports 206 kcal per 100 g and 268 kcal in USDA source amount (130 g). Chicken breast, grilled with sauce, skin eaten reports a lower 202 kcal per 100 g but a higher 354 kcal in USDA source amount (175 g).
Choose the record before reading the number
The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Preparation wording (baked, roasted, or broiled versus fried) the explicit record-description contrast. It does not show that the wording difference caused a nutrient difference. Pick the description that matches the food in front of you rather than averaging away the distinction.
Inspect the underlying evidenceContextual knowledge graph
For Chicken breast source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.
Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: baked, roasted, or broiled versus fried; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.
Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw vs Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from rawBoth records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: raw; baked, roasted, or broiled versus raw; fried; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.
Follow this evidence path 27 context records in this source topic Chicken, whole piecesChicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken breast, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from pre-cooked belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.
Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Breading or batter as ingredient in foodUSDA input 99995000 appears in 6 of 27 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–18 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.
Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Chicken breast, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin eaten, from rawUSDA input 24122130 appears in 8 of 27 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 74–98 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, calcium runs from 6 mg in Chicken breast, stewed, skin not eaten to 42 mg in Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Iron: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, iron runs from 0.4 mg in Chicken breast, stewed, skin not eaten to 1 mg in Chicken breast, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.
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