What is the difference between a piece of chicken and a tenderloin?

Question

thanks for help

Answer 1

Well the tenderloin is a strip of meat that is just under the breast. Pieces of chicken are the main parts, like the b*****s, wings, thighs and legs.

Answer 2

"The USDA defines a poultry Tenderloin as 'the inner pectoral muscle which lies alongside the sternum of the kind of poultry indicated.' Which is to say, a strip of muscle that runs along the inside of the breast, the part of the breast closest to the bone. It separates easily from the rest of the breast. It has a tendon running through it. The tendon is basically gristle that needs to be removed and discarded.

Neither 'Chicken Tender' nor 'Chicken Tenderloin', however, are official, enforced terms so there is much confusion. The USDA says 'The terms tender and tenderloin have been used for a number of years for muscles from the breast without a clear-cut definition to distinguish between the two. The policy stated above appears to be what is being done in general practice.'"