When it comes to fried food, if I only eat the lighter part and remove the darker “crust”/outer layer (or whatever is the actual name for it), will it have less calories?
Examples:
If it’s a question of coping when eating out or eating someone else’s cooking that you can’t bow out of, then yes, it’s healthier. But it isn’t going to be comparably healthy to foods prepared without that coating by a healthier method like roasting, steaming, baking, or sauteeing without all the extra oil from deep frying.
I don’t mean any offense by this, but following this subreddit and seeing the questions and concepts that come up explain everything to me about America’s obesity epidemic. Some of these posts really are wild.
For this one it’s not even the factual aspect of the question that worries me, it’s the overall mindset behind someone asking this. It paints a picture of a person who’s understanding/easiest access to chicken is in fried form. As if breaded and deep fried is the norm, and to take it out of that form work and calculations have to be done. Depressing concept really.
