JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Buy This Chicken Instead!

24 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, JJ Virgin explains why pastured chicken is the preferred protein source over standard free‑range or conventional chicken. She defines pastured chicken as birds that forage outdoors and eat natural foods, contrasting it with chickens fed GMO corn and soy. Virgin highlights the nutritional advantages: a lean, low‑calorie option that is rich in leucine and essential amino acids. She provides specific data for a 4‑ounce cooked chicken breast—approximately 1.5–2 g of leucine, 35 g of protein, and about 200 calories—positioning it as an easy, health‑focused food choice.

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this is just such an easy go-to, is pastured chicken. Not so easy to find pastured chicken, but pastured chicken is the one you want to find. That's different than just free-range. This means that they're actually out eating what chickens normally eat, which is apparently anything that's around. But what we don't want to do is have chicken that's been fed GMO corn and soy. So when you're getting chicken, go for lean, and you're going to get good leucine, good essential amino acids. This one's an easy one, low calorie, easy to do, and it's high in leucine. A 4-ounce cooked chicken breast has about Mm, 1.5 to 2 grams of leucine, 35 grams of protein, and just 200 calories. So this is a really easy one.