Nutritional Facts: Beer Can Chicken

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  2 cups (2g)
hickory chips
24 ounces (713g)
beer
1/2 cup (125g)
your favorite barbecue rub
2 (2,672g)
whole chickens
Total 1 serving
Alanine n/a 0.1 n/a 26.9 27 3
Alcohol n/a 27.8 0.0 0.0 28 3
Arginine n/a 0.0 n/a 28.8 29 4
Ash n/a 1.1 3.9 23.2 28 4
Aspartic acid n/a 0.1 n/a 40.9 41 5
Caffeine n/a 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
Calcium n/a 28.5 15.0 267.2 311 39
Calories n/a 306.5 187.5 5,771.5 6,266 783
Calories (kj) n/a 1,290.2 782.5 24,154.9 26,228 3,278
Carbohydrates n/a 25.3 45.3 0.0 71 9
Cholesterol n/a 0.0 0.0 1,950.6 1,951 244
Copper n/a 0.0 0.1 1.2 1 0
Cystine n/a 0.0 n/a 6.1 6 1
Dietary Fiber n/a 0.0 0.8 0.0 1 0
Folate n/a 42.8 2.5 160.3 206 26
Folate, DFE n/a 42.8 2.5 160.3 206 26
Folate, food n/a 42.8 2.5 160.3 206 26
Folic acid n/a 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
Fructose n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Galactose n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Glucose (dextrose) n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Glutamic acid n/a 0.3 n/a 66.8 67 8
Glycine n/a 0.1 n/a 30.2 30 4
Histidine n/a 0.0 n/a 13.4 13 2
Iron n/a 0.1 0.3 27.0 27 3
Isoleucine n/a 0.0 n/a 22.7 23 3
Lactose n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Leucine n/a 0.0 n/a 33.2 33 4
Lysine n/a 0.0 n/a 37.1 37 5
Magnesium n/a 42.8 15.0 507.7 565 71
Maltose n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Manganese n/a 0.1 0.3 0.5 1 0
Methionine n/a 0.0 n/a 12.1 12 2
Monounsaturated Fat n/a 0.0 0.1 177.4 178 22
Niacin n/a 3.7 0.6 175.6 180 22
Pantothenic acid n/a 0.3 0.0 23.6 24 3
Phenylalanine n/a 0.0 n/a 17.8 18 2
Phosphorus n/a 99.8 21.3 4,435.5 4,557 570
Polyunsaturated Fat n/a 0.0 0.2 90.8 91 11
Potassium n/a 192.5 260.0 5,237.1 5,690 711
Proline n/a 0.2 n/a 22.5 23 3
Protein n/a 3.3 0.0 458.0 461 58
Retinol n/a 0.0 0.0 1,015.4 1,015 127
Riboflavin n/a 0.2 0.0 3.1 3 0
Saturated Fat n/a 0.0 0.0 121.0 121 15
Selenium n/a 4.3 1.6 408.8 415 52
Serine n/a 0.0 n/a 16.2 16 2
Sodium n/a 28.5 1,058.8 1,817.0 2,904 363
Starch n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Sucrose n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Sugar n/a 0.0 32.6 0.0 33 4
Theobromine n/a 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
Thiamin n/a 0.0 0.0 1.5 2 0
Threonine n/a 0.0 n/a 18.9 19 2
Tocopherol, alpha n/a 0.0 0.8 8.0 9 1
Tocopherol, beta n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Tocopherol, delta n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Tocopherol, gamma n/a 0.0 n/a n/a 0 0
Total Fat n/a 0.0 0.4 423.5 424 53
TransFatty acids n/a n/a 0.0 n/a 0 0
Tryptophan n/a 0.0 n/a 5.1 5 1
Tyrosine n/a 0.0 n/a 14.7 15 2
Valine n/a 0.0 n/a 22.2 22 3
Vitamin A, IU n/a 0.0 293.8 3,500.3 3,794 474
Vitamin A, RAE n/a 0.0 15.0 1,015.4 1,030 129
Vitamin B-12 n/a 0.1 0.0 8.3 8 1
Vitamin B-6 n/a 0.3 0.1 8.6 9 1
Vitamin C n/a 0.0 0.9 0.0 1 0
Vitamin D n/a 0.0 0.0 n/a 0 0
Water n/a 655.5 75.4 1,750.2 2,481 310
Zinc n/a 0.1 0.2 28.6 29 4

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