Chicken thigh has 40g protein and 25g fat per 200g, while chicken breast has 40g protein and 7g fat. If your daily fat budget is 80g, thigh eats up nearly a third of it in one serving, making breast the smarter choice for hitting protein targets without blowing your fat limit.
So now if you're looking to put on muscle, let's look at this meal. Starting with our protein, we have here our chicken thigh. Now, chicken thigh— difference between chicken thigh and chicken breast is chicken thigh per 200 grams, we have 40 grams of protein and 25 grams of fat. It might not seem like that much, but in the construct of our meal, if we only have 80 grams of fat to play with, we've got 25 grams of fat coming just from our protein source here and less protein per meal. So we're going to be able to eat more— we're going to need to eat more chicken thigh to get the same amount of protein as chicken breast, but now we have the fat to 10 with, and there's 25 grams of fat in our chicken thigh compared to 7 grams of fat in our chicken breast for the same serve.
