When You Eat Undercooked Chicken, This Is What Happens To Your Body

Knowing that eating raw or undercooked chicken is so dangerous is likely to make you think twice before cutting into that next chicken breast on your dinner plate, but there are tried and true ways to make sure that the chicken you're about to eat is fully cooked. According to Women's Health, if you are the one cooking the chicken, the easiest way to tell if it's done is to insert a meat thermometer into the thickest part of the chicken. If it reads 165 F or above, you should be safe! 

If you aren't the one cooking and simply receive chicken on your plate at a restaurant or a friend's house, you can check whether it's cooked through by making a small cut in the thickest part of the chicken. If the juices run pink (or anything but clear) or if the meat itself looks pink or even bloody, it needs to go back onto the heat to finish cooking.