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Oxygen rich, slow muscles are iron-laden red-pigmented myoglobin supplied and therefore dark meat. Legs and thighs are dark meat on a chicken because it uses its legs 95 percent of the time.
Fast-contraction muscle fibres' like the breast don't require as much oxygen, therefore lack myoglobin. These use glycogen (a carbohydrate) for fuel. In the absence of myoglobin, the muscles are "white".
Chicken breast is white meat. Everything else is dark meat.
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Is a chicken drumstick considered white or dark meat?
A chicken drunstick can be dark or white meat.
What pieces of chicken are dark and what pieces are white?
Chicken legs (drumsticks, thighs) and backs are dark meat. Chicken breasts and wings are white meat.
Is dark meat better than light meat when preparing chicken soup?
You can use either white or dark meat when preparing chicken soup. The dark meat has a little more flavor than the white meat.
What pieces of the chicken have dark meat?
the legs and the wings are dark, the breast is white meat
How many calories in 2 oz chicken dark meat?
There are 64 calories in two ounces of roasted dark meat chicken.
What foods do you get from chickens?
eggs,white meat,and dark meat... chicken meat that is.
Why is the breast meat of a chicken white and the leg meat red?
Leg meat of a chicken is dark, not red. Red meat comes from cows.
Which meat on a free range chicken is the leanest dark meat or white meat?
white
What pieces of a chicken are dark meat?
Chicken legs are considered dark meat due to the activity done by the cicken. Chickens used their legst to do major activities such as running or walking, therefore muscles in their legs make the meat become dark meat.
What percentage of a whole chicken is dark meat and is it cheaper to buy a whole chicken and discard the dark or to buy bone-in chicken halves?
All but the breast of the chicken is dark meat. It may or may not be cheaper to buy only the breast, depending on individual store prices and quality of the meat, but it would save having to throw the dark meat out. If you only want white meat, you probably should purchase breasts.
Can we find white and dark mixed chicken meat in a piece of chicken?
yes.
Is Cornish hen white meat?
The chickens hindquarters are usually the dark part and the chicken. The chickens wings, drumstick + the breat are the white meat.
