Chicken Leg: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Chicken leg: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in chicken leg?

In this article:

★ Calories
★ Nutrition
★ Calories in 1, 2, 3 or more...
★ Calories per ounce (oz)
★ Carbs
★ Fat
★ Protein

100g of chicken legs have about 120 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | single piece

For example, medium size chicken leg (170 g) has about 204 calories.

It is about 9% of daily calories intake for adult person with medium weight and medium activity (for calculation we assumed 2400 kcal daily intake).

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To visualize how much it actualy is, take in mind that calories amount from medium size chicken leg is similar to calories amount from ie.:

3.5 apples
2.5 glasses of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
2 slices of cheese
1.5 slices of bread
1.5 glasses of milk
10.5 cubes of sugar

For burning such amount of calories you need to bike at least 29 minutes, swim for about 24 minutes or run for 21 minutes.

Calories in Chicken Leg Based On Meat Category

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Chicken leg: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories120kcal/100g(34 kcal/oz)

Protein19.2g/100g(5.4 g/oz)

Fat4.2g/100g(1.2 g/oz)

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How many calories in 1, 2, 3 or 5 chicken legs?

As I wrote before medium size chicken leg (170 g) have 204 calories. It is easy to count that two chicken legs have about 408 calories and three chicken legs have about 612 calories. In table below you can also see calories amount for four and five chicken legs.

Medium size chicken leg (170 g)204 kcal
Ounce (oz) of chicken legs34 kcal
Half of medium size chicken leg102 kcal
Small size chicken leg (136g)163.2 kcal
Big size chicken leg (221g)265.2 kcal
Two medium size chicken legs408 kcal
Three medium size chicken legs612 kcal
Four medium size chicken legs816 kcal
Five medium size chicken legs1020 kcal

Protein in chicken leg

Chicken legs have 19.16 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of medium size chicken leg (170 g) you can see that you will get about 32.6 g of protein.

Carbs in chicken legs

0 g of carbs - chicken legs have no carbohydrates.

Fat in chicken legs

Chicken legs have 4.22 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that medium size chicken leg (170 g) has about 7.2 g of fat.

medium size chicken leg (170 g) has:

204kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike29 min.Bike

Horse ride38 min.Horse ride

Play tennis20 min.Tennis

Run21 min.Run

Swim24 min.Swim

chicken leg - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A32 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.087 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.179 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)5.578 mg
Vitaminium B60.406 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.004 mcg
Vitaminium E0.18 mg
Vitaminium K0.003 mg

Energy content of chicken leg

0% CARBS
67% PROTEIN
33% FAT

chicken leg - minerals per 100g

Potassium238 mg
Phosphorus2.8 mg
Magnessium23 mg
Calcium10 mg
Sodium96 mg
Iron0.78 mg
Zink2.8 mg

Does chicken leg cause weight gain? How it affects your diet?

Small number of calories in chicken leg puts this product in the middle of low-calories meat. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific meat, chicken leg seems to be a pretty good choice.

This is not many but you can easily find less calorific products. Less calories we can find in such meat as frog legs, turkey breast or rabbit.

Interesting charts - compare chicken leg with other meat

When you look at charts below you will see how chicken leg looks like in comparsion to other products from its category. When you click on selected product you will se detailed comparsion.

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Author of this page
Marcin Piotrowicz

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Healthy eating and living style promoter

All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.