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Chicken, skin on or skin off?

Is there a difference in the fat content of a cooked chicken breast without the skin or cooked with the skin and then the skin is removed before eating?

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  • Volks
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes. When you cook the chicken with the skin on, it keeps some of the fat in from the breast that would normally drain off, plus the fat in the skin melts down onto the breast as well.

  • 1 decade ago

    Jut pat off the extra oil after cooking, the chicken is moist after you cook with the skin, not so dry. Marlene of Fl.

  • 1 decade ago

    "Chicken meat won't absorb any fat from the skin during cooking. Skin will also protect the meat from drying out during cooking and will add a little extra flavor. So leave the skin on during cooking and peel it away afterward."

  • 1 decade ago

    YES! Without skin in soooo much healthier, just flavor the chicken itself.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Take the skin off! Its much healthier and tastier, you can taste the chicken rather than the flour and stuff.

  • 1 decade ago

    you should cook it with the skin and then take the skin off.

  • 1 decade ago

    Not much I don't think. Taste wise there is. Cook it with the skin on, it'll taste better, and will likely be juicier. Peel the skin off just before you eat it.

    Source(s): fat=flavor.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    mmm on! it gives the chicken a very good taste :) YUM! BUT lol it'll be fattier, if you're gonig to be all healthy and stuff, take it off :D

  • 1 decade ago

    it is betta with the skin off

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    skin yummy spicily the skin oof of kfc chicken

    Source(s): me
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