Nutrition Advice - Re: Pre-cooked chicken

[Citruskiss]

I've been buying this package of pre-cooked chicken breast strips from the deli section of the grocery store. It's very handy for adding some chicken to my salads or what have you.

This being said, the ingredients list is kinda weird looking to me, and I'm wondering if these "sliced chicken breast" portions could be interfering with my low carbing.

The package label is as follows:

"Fully Cooked, Boneless, Skinless, Season Glazed"

Sliced Chicken Breast, grill marked coated with soya.

Minimum Meat Protein 20%

Ingredients: chicken, water, sodium lactate, modified corn starch, soya protein isolate, salt, sodium phosphate, carageenan, caramel, spice extracts.

The carb count is listed as 0 g per 100 gram serving. But I know that labeling standards allow food manufacturers to list zero if it's under a gram or something like that.

Anyway...this is a weird looking ingredient list, and I'm wondering if I'd be better off just buying fresh chicken and making these myself, keeping it in a tupperware container in the fridge.

I'm kinda lazy at times, and often prefer convenience items such as this product. However, if I find out that this product could interfere with my low carb plan , then I'm willing to put in the extra effort and make up batches of this stuff myself.

I'd love to hear from anyone who understands nutrition well or who has some experience with some of these unusual sounding ingredients.

Thanks:)

[Dodger]

I think the sodium lactate is in there as a preservative. It is not something that I would put into foods. It is used in soaps and is injected into people to help restore Acid/base ratio.

[Citruskiss]

I think when I do my shopping this morning, I'll get some fresh chicken strips and cook them up myself this afternoon - and see how that goes. I've noticed these pre-cooked chicken pieces don't taste the same as just plain cold cooked chicken. Ah well...it was convenient..lol!

Thanks for the comment :)

[Bat Spit]

Citruskiss, do any of your local groceries have those nice whole rotisseri chickens for sale in the deli area? If I call ahead, my deli will debone the whole chicken for me, and I don't believe they charged much, if any extra. I order 4 at a time and freeze all but the one in progress. Very, very convenient and tasty.

[cs_carver]

So there's AT LEAST 20% meat protein, which means there COULD be 80% of everything else? Fix your own.

OTOH--if it really IS under 1 g carbs / 100 gr serving, you can't be too far off. But corn products mess me up, and "glazed" is a warning word that says to look out for sugar (although I don't see any listed).

Cheaper to buy in bulk and cook ahead. I do a lot of kitchen work (such that I do any work in the kitchen at all) when I'm talking with girlfriends--headset phones are god's gift.

[Citruskiss]

So there's AT LEAST 20% meat protein, which means there COULD be 80% of everything else? Fix your own.

OTOH--if it really IS under 1 g carbs / 100 gr serving, you can't be too far off. But corn products mess me up, and "glazed" is a warning word that says to look out for sugar (although I don't see any listed).

Cheaper to buy in bulk and cook ahead. I do a lot of kitchen work (such that I do any work in the kitchen at all) when I'm talking with girlfriends--headset phones are god's gift.

Yeah..I really wondered about this "20% meat protein" business.

Not buying it anymore - will just have to make it myself. The convenience product just seems too iffy ..I mean...what the heck is "season glazed" or "coated"...(not sure I wanna know).

Thanks guys :)