0 a meat such as chicken or veal that is pale in colour, or the whitest flesh, usually the breast, of a cooked bird
1 meat, usually from a bird, that is light in color when cooked
The chicken may be all white meat, all dark meat, or a mix (known as regular).
Dark meat (legs, drumsticks and thighs) pieces are typically cheaper than white meat pieces (breast, wings).
Up until 2003, they were a combination of white and dark meat, now they are made with only white meat.
Dark meat contains 2.64 times more saturated fat than white meat, per gram of protein.
The company sells slightly different versions of the sandwich between international markets, using white meat chicken breast in some regions while using dark meat chicken thighs in others.
Those calves still had white meat because they did not get any feed containing iron.
Our proposal to introduce the compulsory labelling of white meat, as already applies in the case of beef, aims at achieving precisely that objective.
In addition, we now publish the hygiene scores of more than 1,000 red and white meat slaughterhouses.
