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Chicken drumstick fried coated calories per cup, cooked, diced: 228–389 across all 7 named USDA examples

Across all 7 named USDA examples, a cup, cooked, diced contains 228–389 calories. Each included example lists 135 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data.

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Estimated for 1 medium drumstick · 60 g

127calories

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw

Protein
11.8 g
Carbs
3.6 g
Fat
7 g

These values scale the selected reference food by weight. Ingredients, preparation, and portion size can change your meal’s estimate.

FoodData Central Survey Foods (FNDDS) · FDC 2706020 Full nutrition profile →

Compare all 7 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 7 exact records in this guide report 85–245 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 169–288 calories per 100 grams. Those are observations from named database records—not a universal range or an estimate of an unseen plate.

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Start with the description closest to what you ate

For Chicken drumstick fried coated, begin by separating “Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw” from “Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.

Showing the first 6 of 7 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How chicken drumstick fried coated records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 7 cited records: minimum, 25th-ranked, median-ranked, 75th-ranked, and maximum. Weight is held at 100 grams; source-serving weights are listed in the table.

  1. Minimum: Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked 169 kcal
    169 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw 169 kcal
    169 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant 213 kcal
    213 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw 241 kcal
    241 kcal
  5. Maximum: Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant 288 kcal
    288 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 7 named USDA records in view: 7 direct matches. All sit within “Chicken, whole pieces.” The exact descriptions remain the unit of comparison; the familiar heading is only the doorway into the evidence.

Why these records appear together: The deterministic grouping rule “normalized first two description segments” placed these 7 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken drumstick fried.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken drumstick fried coated, this page can compare 7 named records from FDC 2706020 through FDC 2706019. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.

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Editor’s decision brief

The three facts to carry into the table

Carry the denominator, exact identity, and strongest observed contrast into every number below.

Portion

50–85 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.7× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

119 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked”; the higher is “fried, …, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

268 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw” (356 mg) and “Chicken drumstick, … food / restaurant · FDC 2706023” (624 mg).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

The cards are ordered by calories in each record's listed serving. Serving weights differ, so use per-100-gram values to compare composition. These selected records do not define a calorie range for every chicken drumstick fried coated.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked; “higher” ends with Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every chicken drumstick fried coated meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Chicken drumstick fried coated, serving columns preserve each record’s own listed amount, while calories per 100 g hold weight constant. A dash means the cited record does not supply that field; it does not mean the nutrient is absent.

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USDA records selected for the Chicken drumstick fried coated nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw Direct name match 60 gUSDA reference amount 127 kcal 212 11.8 g 0.1 g 266 mg FDC 2706020 ↗
Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 245 kcal 288 15.1 g 0.5 g 530 mg FDC 2706023 ↗
Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from pre-cooked Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 210 kcal 247 15.6 g 0.3 g 407 mg FDC 2706021 ↗
Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 205 kcal 241 16.2 g 0.2 g 309 mg FDC 2706018 ↗
Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 107 kcal 213 10.9 g 0.1 g 273 mg FDC 2706024 ↗
Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 85 kcal 169 11.8 g 0 g 216 mg FDC 2706022 ↗
Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 85 kcal 169 11.8 g 0 g 178 mg FDC 2706019 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 50 to 85 grams—a 35-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 85 calories for “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked” to 245 for “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked” is 169 calories and “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant” is 288—a fixed-weight separation of 119 calories. For Chicken drumstick fried coated, the serving view answers “how much is in the database portion?”; the 100-gram view answers “how concentrated is the matched record?” Neither reveals how many grams were actually eaten.

The scaling rule: multiply a per-100-gram value by eaten grams ÷ 100. The arithmetic is exact; the result is only as defensible as the record match and portion estimate.

Preparation analysis

The long description carries the evidence

The published descriptions distinguish forms such as “fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw”, “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from pre-cooked”, “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw”, “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked”, and “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes salt, table and vegetable oil, nfs; differentiating rows include breading or batter as ingredient in food, chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, drumstick, meat only, cooked, roasted, chicken, broilers or fryers, drumstick, meat and skin, cooked, roasted, and fast foods, fried chicken, drumstick, meat and skin with breading. On this Chicken drumstick fried coated page, those rows make the records inspectable, but they are not a controlled experiment: they cannot tell us that one named input, by itself, caused a nutrient difference.

Database precision is not meal certainty. Retain the exact description beside the number so later corrections remain possible.

What changes the comparison

Four drivers worth checking before choosing a record

The family label “Chicken drumstick fried coated” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw and Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.

  1. 01

    Source weight before serving calories

    The source amounts span 50–85 grams. Compare per 100 grams before reading a serving-calorie gap as a composition gap.

  2. 02

    The words that split the family

    Representative record-level distinctions include “fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw”, “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from pre-cooked”, “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw”, “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked”, and “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    Shared source rows include salt, table and vegetable oil, nfs; rows that vary across the set include breading or batter as ingredient in food, chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, drumstick, meat only, cooked, roasted, and chicken, broilers or fryers, drumstick, meat and skin, cooked, roasted. Presence is inspectable evidence, not proof of nutrient causation.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Chicken drumstick, …, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken drumstick fried coated unknowns for correction instead of converting them into false precision.

Record matching

Match identity first; scale quantity second

Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that chicken drumstick fried coated is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw”, “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from pre-cooked”, “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, and “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from raw”—before comparing gram weight. If a package, menu, or known recipe provides a closer first-party description, prefer it and keep this USDA record as a transparent fallback.

A practical matching checklist

  1. Read the complete Chicken drumstick fried coated source description, including preparation and additions.
  2. Compare the listed source weight with the amount actually eaten.
  3. Prefer a current package or restaurant source when a specific branded item is known.
  4. Record toppings, sauces, cooking fat, sides, and substitutions that the selected description does not name.

Decision support from the exact records on this page

Turn source data into a better next decision

These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 7 exact records behind Chicken drumstick fried coated source-record guide. Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant is higher in carbohydrate per 100 g

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant reports 12.1 g versus 0 g for Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked: a 12.1 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant is denser; Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw is higher in its source amount

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant reports 213 kcal per 100 g and 107 kcal in USDA source amount (50 g). Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw reports a lower 212 kcal per 100 g but a higher 127 kcal in USDA source amount (60 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from pre-cooked and Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Skin wording (skin eaten versus skin not eaten) the explicit record-description contrast. It does not show that the wording difference caused a nutrient difference. Pick the description that matches the food in front of you rather than averaging away the distinction.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Chicken drumstick fried coated source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Compare two records on this page Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from pre-cooked vs Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Skin wording: skin eaten versus skin not eaten; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Test a nearby record choice Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from fast food / restaurant vs Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: baked, roasted, or broiled versus raw; fried; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 7 context records in this source topic Chicken, whole pieces

Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw and Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Breading or batter as ingredient in food

USDA input 99995000 appears in 5 of 7 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 15–18 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, drumstick, meat only, cooked, roasted

USDA input 5073 appears in 3 of 7 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 78–98 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Dietary fiber: density and serving context

In this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0 g in Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked to 0.6 g in Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 11 mg in Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from pre-cooked to 27 mg in Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path