![]() ![]() And Perdue had no absorbent pad with its shrink wrapped chicken - and maybe it doesn’t need one. The brands with the least water? Tyson contained just 11 percent water in the pad. That meant that of the five pounds of chicken, almost a pound is water and packaging. ![]() Walmart’s value breasts were next: 16.2 percent water in the pad. That means 18 percent was water in the pad. Next watery was our supermarket “value chicken.” We paid for 4.01 pounds, but got just 3.36. So 18.7 percent of what we bought was water you throw away before cooking. More than a third of a pound (0.335) was water in the pad. You pay for 1.82 pounds (The actual weight including packaging was 1.93.) But when we weighed it, we got just 1.59 pounds of chicken. The most waterlogged of our five samples: Walmart’s thin chicken breasts. With most, the absorbent pad underneath was saturated with water. Tyson was especially generous: they gave us 3.25 pounds, but only charged for 3 pounds. The good news is that each package weighed more than the label said, to allow for all the packaging. While it was not a fully scientific test, performed in a controlled lab environment, we were careful to weigh everything on the same calibrated digital scale. Three were “house” brands, two were more expensive national brands. ![]() Over two days, we went into a Walmart Supercenter and a supermarket to buy five brands of boneless breasts. ![]() But our consumer investigation found you may be paying for even more water with some chicken. “It contains 15 percent water? No, I have never noticed that,” Honshaw said.įifteen percent is one thing. Shoppers Mike Honshaw and Miranda Webster said they were surprised by the amount of water in the chicken they buy. But look closely, and you’ll see most packages now say they “contain up to 15 percent added chicken broth.” That’s a fancy word for water. When it comes to chicken, big packs of boneless breasts look like a good deal. And you want to make sure you get what you pay for. (May 5, 2014) - You work hard for your money. ![]()
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