KFC - Oven Roasted Chicken has sugar in it

We noticed today that Kentucky Fried Chicken now has oven roasted chicken. Here's the link to the news release about it: kfc.com/about/pr/042704.htm (add http://www. to the beginning) Well, I went to nutritional information and the 3 chicken strip meal is low in fat etc, but it has 8 grams of sugar in it. So I checked the sides (green beans & seasoned rice and their sugar total is 3) so that makes the chicken alone 5 grams of sugar. Original KFC (very high in fat) has no sugar in it. Not sure why they would add sugar, but wanted to let you know just in case you wanted to try it and didn't think of sugar being added to it. Mary

Hey Mary... I just want to say that if anything is good there I usually know first hand my daughter works there so i can give it a taste, but i know better than that (sometimes) She brings food home to other family members I just have a taste trying to follow the rules The new foods start here on Mon. so i will have to try a SMALL sample Deb

Deb, If you ate 1 strip of it or 1/2 of one, you would get 2 grams of sugar or less. That wouldn't be too bad especially since the oven roasted is so much lower in calories and fat than the regular. We didn't try it, just saw the signs as we drove by so I looked it up on the internet to learn more about it. I think the article said the kick-off for them was Monday the 10th. Let us know if you try it. Mary

I didn't even know they were going to have oven roasted chicken. I LOVE the fried. Skin and all. Good thing I don't eat it much at all. Joanne

Thanks for the heads-up Mary, I would not have imagined that they would add sugar to chicken.

We tried it today .... I only ate 1/2 of a strip of chicken so pretty little sugar. It was moist, but had a tomato (?) taste to it. Neither my husband or I liked it. He dried the green beans and said they were awful altho he did like the seasoned rice.