White or dark poultry meat – which is the healthiest? Doctors gave a clear answer – Nutrition

Since doctors recommend not to abuse red meat, but to include turkey or chicken in your diet, it would be good to know from which parts of the carcass the meat will be the healthiest, Sports.kz reports with reference to Tsn.ua.

In general, chicken or turkey meat is a high-protein product with a minimal percentage of fat. It can be eaten while losing weight, if you have diabetes, or to improve your overall health. If you cook a whole bird, some parts will consist of light meat and some of dark meat.

However, it is believed that the healthiest poultry meat is the breast, because it contains the lowest percentage of fat and is therefore low in calories. This is white meat, one hundred grams of which contains only 1.8 g of fat and 125 kcal. In dark thigh meat these values ​​will be higher, per hundred grams there are 5.1 grams of fat and 147…