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Is it healthier to remove chicken skin before cooking? If you're serving chicken, there's no need to strip the skin. Chicken skin has had a bad rap for being high in fat. But most of the fat in chicken skin is healthy, unsaturated fat--and cooking with the skin keeps the chicken flavorful and moist, so you don't need to add as much salt or use a breaded coating.

The skin of chicken and turkey is high in fat, so many people remove it to save on calories, but it helps keep the meat moist when cooking in dry heat like an oven or grill. 

 

If you cook it properly in dry heat and make it crispy (325F+), 

it can be as delicious as bacon. Well, almost...