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Chicken

  • 25-05-2024 10:58AM
    #1
    Gullivers Travels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭


    Our cats love boiled chicken, I buy a large chicken that typically feeds 5-6 people. Only once the chicken is boiled it reduces in size by at least a third. Is this normal, I heard somewhere that the chickens are pumped with water to bring the weight up so more could be charged for the chicken in the supermarket?



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  • #2
    Xterminator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭Xterminator


    buy 2 x small chickens - dunnes are under 5 quid a pop. plenty of chicken. theres nothing new in the add water to ham or checken etc. maybe you just found out about it? it has to be declared on the packaging i believe.



  • #3
    JVince
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭JVince


    They are not pumped with water, but about 5% is added to make it more succulent (Eu Limits - has to be declared if higher).

    In the USA it is higher.

    In cooking you will lose about 25% of the weight of chicken because as well as some water being added, it naturally has a high water content just as us humans have too.

    Chicken is about 70-75% moisture, us humans are about 60%

    Here's an EU study on the subject

    https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2020-02/ext-study-water-poultry-leaflet_2012_en_0.pdf



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