I tried it today. Not bad, but I was surprised it still had the skin on (and imo, it was kind of pricey).
It's been a couple of hours since my meal, and I'm starting to get a mild tummy ache. (It's rare I eat fast food.)
As others have mentioned...I'd rather grill my own. The KFC grilled tasted more salty than grilled. For those on the west coast, El Pollo Loco is still my fav for grilled chicken.
BTW, speaking of 'healthier' items on menus:
Healthy items on menu make unhealthy picks easier Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:29pm EDT
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Merely thinking about getting a salad instead of french fries can satisfy intentions to eat healthily, ironically making it easier to go ahead and order fries after all, new research shows.
In a series of experiments, researchers found that people were substantially more likely to choose the least-healthy option on a menu, such as a cheese burger or ice cream, when the menu included a single more virtuous option, such as a veggie burger or fruit.
"Because the healthy option is there, it somehow satisfies this healthy eating goal in them and then they felt liberated to sort of go crazy and choose something really, really bad for them," Dr. Gavan J. Fitzsimons of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who led the study, explained in an interview with Reuters Health.
Fitzsimons and his team were investigating something they call "vicarious goal fulfillment," in which having the opportunity to act in a way that fulfills long-term objectives -- for example, eating healthier -- fulfills a person's goal, even if he or she doesn't actually make that healthier choice. They hypothesized that people would choose the worst option on a menu more frequently when that menu included a food that represented a healthy goal, compared to when they were presented with a menu that included a range of less-healthy options.
In every one of the experiments Fitzsimons and his colleagues did, this turned out to be true.
Among 70 undergraduate students, for example, 37% chose a bacon-cheeseburger when the alternatives included a veggie burger (other options were a chicken or fish sandwich). But when the veggie burger wasn't on the menu, just 17% picked the bacon cheeseburger.
Similar patterns were seen when salad was included with french fries, chicken nuggets, and baked potato (more people chose fries) and when people were offered 100-calories worth of Oreo cookies along with original Oreos, chocolate covered Oreos, and golden Oreos (more picked the chocolate-covered cookies).
Furthermore, people with high levels of self-control were actually more likely to make indulgent choices when offered a healthy option than people who didn't keep such a tight rein on themselves. Further experiments demonstrated that more restrained people indeed unconsciously acted as if they had fulfilled their health goals by considering a healthy choice.
Getting people to eat better requires more than just adding a healthy option or two to the menu, be it at fast food restaurants or school cafeterias, according to Fitzsimons. People should stay away from fast food joints if they really want to keep eating healthily, he added, while schools should toss unhealthy choices off cafeteria menus entirely rather than trying to tempt kids away from pizza with a couple of vegetable offerings.
By offering a couple of nutritious choices, the researcher said, fast food restaurants may tempt health-conscious consumers with the possibility that they might pick these items. Still, junk food purveyors are seeing their profits grow, he added. "It's not from salads."
SOURCE: Journal of Consumer Research, October 2009.
I had it last night & thought it was salty as well...I was also surprised it had skin on it!
It was just ok, don't think I'd get it again.
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yet again i sent the hub to KFC to get some dinner and i wanted the grilled chx. after sitting in the drive thru for about an hour, they didnt have any white meat at all. wow, big surprise. btw, i live in a little rinky dink town where there is only fast food joints or nasty home cooking places that switch every 2 months. we don't have any where to shop but wal mart and it is the sorriest wm i have ever been in. no mall, no target, no kmart, no nothing. anyway, this is the 3rd time that i have tried to get some in the past week and a half. i hate it here! im not going back, my food was disgusting and cold, and not even what i wanted. dh was so mad he almost cussed the people out. and he don't cuss!
off the topic, does anyone remember when the had sweet and spicy wings a couple of years ago? omg, they were so good. of course no one ever had them again. they won't carry anything if people want to buy it.
sorry for my rant in the chicken post!
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Hmmm. . . I thought all KFCs used the same ingredients. Our local one the chicken was not salty, and very mild. When DH makes his firemen's chicken it's salty as can be, same with his wings.
Hmmm. . . I thought all KFCs used the same ingredients. Our local one the chicken was not salty, and very mild.
I'm sure they DO use the same ingredients. Something doesn't have to 'taste' salty to be high in sodium.
People, however, who consume a diet that is within healthy ranges for sodium, will be more sensitive to 'salty tastes' - especially in things like 'fast food chicken'.
3 pieces of chicken, and you're pretty much at your sodium for the day...and you haven't even eaten anything else...
Americans consume WAY too much sodium...
A Salty Tale: Why We Need A Diet Less Rich in Sodium Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2009
By MELINDA BECK
It's 2009 -- several decades after health officials began urging Americans to cut down on salt.
Do you know how much you're consuming?
If you're a typical American, it's about 3,400 milligrams of sodium per day. That's well beyond the 2,300 mg recommended by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. And it's 15 times as much as the human body requires.
Average sodium intake has increased about 50% since the 1970s. That's largely because we're eating more convenience foods. And, as makers of processed food have cut fat and sugar from their products, they've often added more salt to restore flavor.
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* Au Bon Pain Blueberry muffin -- 500 mg of sodium
* Marie Callender's Frozen Fried Chicken -- 1,590 mg
* ShopRite Cottage Cheese, ½ cup -- 450 mg
* Kellogg's Raisin Bran, cup -- 350 mg
* Kraft Easy Mac Macaroni and Cheese, cup -- 700 mg
* Oscar Mayer Baked Ham, 3 slices -- 780 mg
How bad is all this sodium for your health?
Excess salt has been linked to osteoporosis, kidney damage and stomach cancer. Worse, it raises blood pressure, a key factor in heart attacks and strokes, which kill about 850,000 Americans a year.
"After smoking, high blood pressure is the leading cause of preventable illness and death," says New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, who is urging makers of packaged foods and restaurants nationwide to gradually reduce their sodium content by 50% over the next 10 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that such a reduction could save 150,000 lives and $18 billion in health-care expenditures a year.
Some 50 million Americans have hypertension (that is, blood pressure readings consistently at or above 140/90 mm/Hg). Another 20 million are prehypertensive (with blood pressure from 120/80 to 139/ 89 mm/Hg). Hypertension is more common among African-Americans than whites, and nearly 90% of Americans eventually develop it as they age.
With that in mind, the CDC is urging anyone who has hypertension, is African-American or over age 40 -- nearly 70% of the U.S. population -- to follow a stricter guideline of just 1,500 mgs a day.
Even people with normal blood pressure can cut their risk of developing hypertension later by lowering their salt intake. "We think of hypertension as being a normal part of the aging process and it's not," says Commissioner Frieden.
About 80% of Americans' salt intake comes from processed foods and restaurant meals; only 20% comes from salt used in home cooking and added at the table. But cutting salt from processed food isn't easy. Besides enhancing taste, salt helps provide texture to many foods and acts as a preservative. And Americans have become accustomed to the taste.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents food makers, says many of its members have cut sodium in their products and introduced lower-salt items in recent years. But it believes that any government effort needs to include consumer education and scientific research as well.
"It's not as collaborative as it should be," says Robert Earl, the group's vice president for science policy, nutrition and health.
In the U.K., which started a similar salt-reduction effort in 2003, many food makers and restaurant chains have already cut salt by 20% to 30%. The average consumption there is down to 8.6 grams from 9.5 grams a day.
A few critics don't think a broad reduction in sodium is warranted. Michael Alderman, a professor of medicine and public health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., says it hasn't been conclusively shown that cutting salt intake across the population would save lives, and it could have unintended consequences. Lowering salt can cause kidney problems and contribute to insulin resistance in some cases, says Dr. Alderman, who is an unpaid consultant to the Salt Institute, an industry group.
Darwin Labarthe, director of the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, counters that there's a very broad consensus that reducing salt would cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and there is little evidence of harmful effects. The American Heart Association, the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization all urge lower salt consumption.
Besides, says Commissioner Frieden, "We aren't taking choice away from people. We are giving them choice. We want to let them determine how much salt they want to add."
What can you do about your own salt intake? It's impossible to know for sure how much you're consuming. Even raw chicken in the grocery store is sometimes "enhanced" with salt water to make it plumper (and heavier, and thus more costly). But you can get some idea by checking the Nutrition Facts labels on products you buy and keeping a running tally.
Some bakery goods and breakfast cereals have far more sodium than you'd expect. There's often a wide range of sodium among brands of the same product. Be sure to check the serving size indicated on the label. A bag of chips that looks individual may be listed as multiple servings.
Even low-sodium labels have different meanings: "Sodium free" means less than 5 mg per serving; "very low" has less than 35 mg; "low" is less than 140. "Reduced sodium" just means that it's down 25% from what an earlier formulation was -- but could still be high in sodium, just like "No added salt" doesn't mean salt free.
Ask restaurants to use less salt when you order. Lawrence Appel, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, says many people feel bloated after they eat out. "It's actually a sodium load, and it takes a few days to get rid of it," he says.
When you cook at home, experts counsel to use only half the salt the recipe calls for; experiment with herbs and spices, or go with the natural flavor. Kids who grow up with less salt may never develop a "salt tooth."
It may take a while to get accustomed to less salt, but once your tastes adjust, you may not want to go back. Commissioner Frieden likens reducing salt to switching from whole milk to skim milk. "If you go back, whole milk tastes like heavy cream," he says.
DH was limiting my salt intake at the time, so I was more sensitive to salt. With my decreased appetite right now I'm lucky to get through one piece let alone 3, lol.
DH was limiting my salt intake at the time, so I was more sensitive to salt.
400 mg of sodium in a chicken breast is fairly high - whether someone tastes it, or not, considering that it naturally has less than 100 mg.
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I emailed KFC and they told me that not only is it not in Canada, but that there are no plans to ever introduce it here. But they'll pass my email on to some department person somewhere. Oh well. I can grill my own chicken quite well.
Ajani, you aren't missing anything. It's just another attempt to pass off something as 'health food', when it's still 'unhealthy' fast food...
Personally, I don't think The Colonel would have christened it, "Finger lickin' good!"
That said, it would certainly be my second choice if I were making a grilled chicken salad at home, and didn't want to fire of the grill just for a cup of diced chicken.
(My first choice would be to throw a perdue single serving skinless chicken breast on the george foreman.)
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Thanks, I will have to try this. We end up eating fast food more often then not thanks to my crazy work schedule. I am also in the process of trying a 'Low Carb' diet... But I'm not doing so great
im not going back, my food was disgusting and cold, and not even what i wanted. dh was so mad he almost cussed the people out. and he don't cuss!
