Chicken Drumsticks vs Chicken Legs: Nutrition Guide

Where is more calories, protein, carbs - what is more healthy?

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Chicken drumsticks - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Chicken leg vs Chicken drumstick: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	Chicken drumsticks	Chicken legs
Calories	161	214
Carbohydrates	0.11 g	0.17 g
Fat	9.2 g	15.95 g
Protein	18.08 g	16.37 g
Water	72.46 g	67.3 g
Calcium	8 mg	9 mg
Iron	0.71 mg	0.69 mg
Magnessium	18 mg	19 mg
Potassium	211 mg	203 mg
Sodium	106 mg	84 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.083 mg	0.073 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.195 mg	0.141 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	4.841 mg	4.733 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.345 mg	0.318 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	0.003 mg	0.004 mg
Vitaminium E	0.19 mg	0.22 mg
Vitaminium K	0.003 mg	0.002 mg

Less Calories in Chicken drumstick

At first glance, you can see that in chicken drumstick is less calories than in chicken leg.

Chicken drumstick has 161 kcal per 100g and chicken leg 214 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 33%.

In chicken drumstick and in chicken leg most calories came from fat.

See tables below to compare chicken drumstick with chicken leg in details.

Chicken drumstick And Chicken leg Nutrition Difference

Calories:
chicken leg - 33% more than chicken drumstick
Carbohydrates:
chicken leg - 55% more than chicken drumstick
Fat:
chicken leg - 73% more than chicken drumstick
Protein:
chicken drumstick - 10% more than chicken leg
Water:
chicken drumstick - 8% more than chicken leg

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More protein in chicken drumstick

It is aslo easy to see see that in chicken drumstick is more protein than in chicken leg.

There is 16.37g per 100g of chicken leg and 18.08g per 100g of chicken drumstick so using simple math we can see that difference is about 10%.

Less carbohydrates in chicken drumstick

In chicken drumstick is less carbohydrates than in chicken leg.

There is 0.17g/100g of carbohydrates in chicken leg and 0.11g/100g in chicken drumstick so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 55%.

Less fat in chicken drumstick

In chicken drumstick is less fats than in chicken leg.

The tables above show us that there is 15.95g/100g of fats in chicken leg and 9.2g/100g in chicken drumstick. In this case difference is about 73%.