Chicken vs Shrimp: Health Insights

More Calories in Chicken

At first glance, you can see that in chicken is more calories than in shrimp.

Chicken has 114 kcal per 100g and shrimp 85 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 34%.

In chicken and in shrimp most calories came from protein.

See tables below to compare chicken with shrimp in details.

Chicken And Shrimp Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  chicken - 34% more than shrimp
• Fat:
  chicken - 224% more than shrimp
• Protein:
  chicken - 15% more than shrimp
• Water:
  shrimp - 5% more than chicken

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More protein in chicken

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

There is 20.1g per 100g of shrimp and 23.2g per 100g of chicken so using simple math we can see that difference is about 15%.

More fat in chicken

In chicken is more fats than in shrimp.

The tables above show us that there is 0.51g/100g of fats in shrimp and 1.65g/100g in chicken. In this case difference is about 224%.