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Chicken breast

Gallus gallus domesticus

Chicken breast is a muscle from a chicken. Cooks use it as poultry.

  • Poultry
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Muscle
Family
Phasianidae
Cooked most in
Africa
Chicken breast, whole

Photo: MrBeastRapper · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Shopping

Choosing and storing chicken breast

Keeping it

  • Freezer · cooked

Nutrition

What 100 g of chicken breast holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 92%Fat 8%Carbohydrate 0%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of chicken breast, raw
Energy106 kcal · 501 kJ
Protein23 g
Fat1.9 g
of which saturated0.35 g
Carbohydrate0 g
of which sugars0 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium66 mg
Cholesterol73 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of chicken breast, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium330 mg
Calcium3.9 mg
Iron0.35 mg
Magnesium26 mg
Zinc0.65 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)9 µg
Folate9 µg
Vitamin B120.21 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 171077, 2646170), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with chicken breast

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Boko Boko Harees

    Burundi

  • Hototay

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include chicken breast.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: chicken breast in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: poultryChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
chicken

Around the world

What chicken breast is called

Names in 37 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    pechuga de pollo · filete de pollo

  • French

    poitrine de poulet · filet de poulet

  • Italian

    petto di pollo

  • Portuguese

    peito de frango

  • German

    Hähnchenbrust · Hühnerbrust · Hähnchenbrustfilet

  • Dutch

    kippenborst

  • Turkish

    tavuk göğsü

  • Russian

    куриная грудка

  • Polish

    pierś z kurczaka

  • Arabic

    صدر دجاج

  • Hebrew

    חזה עוף

  • Hindi

    मुर्ग़े का सीना · मुर्गे फ़िलिट्

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  • Albanian

    gjoks pule

  • Armenian

    հավի կրծքամիս

  • Asturian

    pechuga de pollu

  • Austrian German

    Hühnerbrust · Hendlbrust

  • Azerbaijani

    toyuq döşü · toyuq filesi

  • Bangla

    মুরগির বুক · মুরগীর ফিলে

  • Belarusian

    курыная грудка · курынае філе · філе курыцы

  • Bulgarian

    пилешки гърди · пилешко филе

  • Cantonese

    雞胸肉

  • Catalan

    pit de pollastre · filet de pollastre

  • Chinese

    雞胸肉

  • Czech

    kuřecí prso · kuřecí prsíčko

  • Finnish

    kananrinta · kanafilee

  • Georgian

    ქათმის მკერდი

  • Hungarian

    csirkemell · csirkefilé

  • Indonesian

    dada ayam

  • Irish

    brollach sicín

  • Japanese

    鶏胸肉 · 鶏の胸肉

  • Korean

    닭가슴살

  • Macedonian

    пилешки гради

  • Malay

    dada ayam

  • Malayalam

    കോഴിയുടെ നെഞ്ച്ചി

  • Romanian

    piept de pui

  • Slovenian

    piščančje prsi

  • Swedish

    kycklingbröst

  • Ukrainian

    куряча грудка

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q2607161

Photos

Photo: MrBeastRapper · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons