Chicken vs Chicken legs: Which Has More Calories?


Per 100 g, Chicken has 133 kcal and Chicken legs has 214 kcal, so Chicken has 38% fewer calories.

Chicken legs has more fat (16 g vs 7.16 g). Relative to calories, Chicken is the better protein source (13.5 g vs 7.65 g of protein per 100 kcal).

Chicken - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition
Chicken - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Chicken
Serving size:
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one chicken (200g)breast (200g)thigh (250g)leg (100g)wing (119g)
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Calcium mg
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Iron mg
0%

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* The % Daily Value (DV) shows how much a nutrient in one serving of food contributes to your total daily diet. A 2000-calorie daily intake is used as a general guideline for nutrition advice.
Chicken Leg
Serving size:
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one chicken leg (170g)
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0%

Calcium mg
0%

Iron mg
0%

Potassium mg
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* The % Daily Value (DV) shows how much a nutrient in one serving of food contributes to your total daily diet. A 2000-calorie daily intake is used as a general guideline for nutrition advice.

Chicken vs Chicken Leg 100g Compare


per 100g Chicken Chicken legs
Calories 133 214
Fat 7.16 g 15.95 g
Protein 17.91 g 16.37 g
Water 74.72 g 67.3 g
Calcium 5.819 mg 9 mg
Iron 0.593 mg 0.69 mg
Magnessium 20.51 mg 19 mg
Potassium 301.7 mg 203 mg
Sodium 62.95 mg 84 mg
Vitaminium A 161 IU 92 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine) 0.063 mg 0.073 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin) 0.168 mg 0.141 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin) 8.487 mg 4.733 mg
Vitaminium B6 0.4 mg 0.318 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid) 0.005 µg 0.004 µg
Vitaminium E 0.27 mg 0.22 mg
Vitaminium K 0.002 µg 0.002 µg

Less Calories in Chicken

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

Chicken has 133 kcal per 100g and chicken leg 214 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 61%.

Additionally, it is also easy to notice that most of the calories in chicken comes from protein and in chicken leg from fat.

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

Chicken 100g

133kcal

Calories source

  • 0% CARBS.
  • 53% PROTEIN
  • 47% FAT

Chicken legs 100g

214kcal

Calories source

  • 0% CARBS
  • 31% PROTEIN
  • 68% FAT

About the data

Nutrition values on this page are given per 100 g of the food and are based on the official United States Department of Agriculture FoodData Central database. The exact record used for each food is linked under the tables.

Marcin Piotrowicz – calories-info.com creator · Healthy diet and healthy lifestyle promoter. The information is for general purposes and is not medical or dietary advice.