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Chicken thigh (skin on)
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Chicken thigh (skin on)

16.5% protein · 221 kcal

Per 100 g
221 kcal Energy
16.52 g Protein
0.25 g Carbs
16.61 g Fat
0 g Fibre
Gluten-free Year round

Let’s cook with it → Invent something with it

What it is for

Heat unfolds them and they link to each other: they bind, they firm, they build crust. They are one half of the Maillard reaction; sugar is the other.

Where it catches you out

Every protein has its own threshold and none of them are reversible. Egg turns at 82 °C, meat at 70, fish at 55 — once past, there is no coming back.

The knack

Measure 74 °C in the thickest part without touching bone; this nutrient profile includes skin but excludes bone.

Storage and health

How to keep it, and who it suits.

Keeping it

Keep raw thighs refrigerated at 0-4 °C for 1-2 days; freeze at -18 °C for 9 months.

Gluten-free

Plain raw chicken is naturally gluten-free.

Glycaemic index

This ingredient carries no meaningful carbohydrate, so it has no glycaemic index. On its own it will not move blood sugar; what you eat alongside it decides that.