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Chicken drumstick calories per cup, cooked, diced: 200–389 across all 25 named USDA examples

Across all 25 named USDA examples, a cup, cooked, diced contains 200–389 calories. Their listed weights span 135–165 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.

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Estimated for 1 drumstick · 60 g

122calories

Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant

Protein
13.6 g
Carbs
0 g
Fat
7.1 g

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

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Compare all 25 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 25 exact records in this guide report 77–245 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 148–288 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, begin by separating “Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant” from “Chicken drumstick, stewed, skin not eaten.” 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 25 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How chicken drumstick records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 25 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, stewed, skin not eaten 148 kcal
    148 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Chicken drumstick, grilled without sauce, skin not eaten 169 kcal
    169 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Chicken drumstick, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin eaten, from raw 190 kcal
    190 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from pre-cooked 206 kcal
    206 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 25 named USDA records in view: 25 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 description segment” placed these 25 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken drumstick.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken drumstick, this page can compare 25 named records from FDC 2706006 through FDC 2706015. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.

Read the shared calculation, provenance, and uncertainty method →

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

140 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

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

Discriminator

271 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “baked, broiled, or roasted, skin eaten, from raw” (353 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.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken drumstick, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw; “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 meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Chicken drumstick, 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 nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 60 gUSDA reference amount 122 kcal 203 13.6 g 0 g 302 mg FDC 2706006 ↗
Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from pre-cooked Direct name match 60 gUSDA reference amount 124 kcal 206 15.4 g 0 g 235 mg FDC 2706004 ↗
Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 84 kcal 168 11.8 g 0 g 254 mg FDC 2706007 ↗
Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from pre-cooked Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 86 kcal 172 13.9 g 0 g 202 mg FDC 2706005 ↗
Chicken drumstick, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin eaten, from raw Direct name match 60 gUSDA reference amount 114 kcal 190 13.9 g 0 g 212 mg FDC 2706002 ↗
Chicken drumstick, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 77 kcal 154 12.1 g 0 g 179 mg FDC 2706003 ↗
Chicken drumstick, baked, coated, skin / coating eaten Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 174 kcal 205 17.9 g 0.2 g 373 mg FDC 2706025 ↗
Chicken drumstick, baked, coated, skin / coating not eaten Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 85 kcal 169 11.8 g 0 g 216 mg FDC 2706026 ↗
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 ↗
Chicken drumstick, grilled with sauce, skin eaten Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 170 kcal 200 15.9 g 0.2 g 500 mg FDC 2706012 ↗
Chicken drumstick, grilled with sauce, skin not eaten Direct name match 75 gUSDA reference amount 129 kcal 172 14.6 g 0.2 g 444 mg FDC 2706013 ↗
Chicken drumstick, grilled without sauce, skin eaten Direct name match 60 gUSDA reference amount 122 kcal 204 13.6 g 0 g 256 mg FDC 2706010 ↗
Chicken drumstick, grilled without sauce, skin not eaten Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 85 kcal 169 11.8 g 0 g 216 mg FDC 2706011 ↗
Chicken drumstick, rotisserie, skin eaten Direct name match 60 gUSDA reference amount 124 kcal 206 15.4 g 0 g 235 mg FDC 2706008 ↗
Chicken drumstick, rotisserie, skin not eaten Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 86 kcal 172 13.9 g 0 g 202 mg FDC 2706009 ↗
Chicken drumstick, sauteed, skin eaten Direct name match 60 gUSDA reference amount 122 kcal 204 13.6 g 0 g 256 mg FDC 2706016 ↗
Chicken drumstick, sauteed, skin not eaten Direct name match 50 gUSDA reference amount 85 kcal 169 11.8 g 0 g 216 mg FDC 2706017 ↗
Chicken drumstick, stewed, skin eaten Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 121 kcal 186 14.6 g 0 g 271 mg FDC 2706014 ↗
Chicken drumstick, stewed, skin not eaten Direct name match 55 gUSDA reference amount 81 kcal 148 13 g 0 g 233 mg FDC 2706015 ↗

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 77 calories for “baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw” to 245 for “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “stewed, skin not eaten” is 148 calories and “fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant” is 288—a fixed-weight separation of 140 calories. For Chicken drumstick, 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 “baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “baked, coated, skin / coating eaten”, “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “grilled without sauce, skin not eaten”, and “stewed, skin not eaten”. The source formulations contain 12 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include salt, table, vegetable oil, nfs, chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, drumstick, meat only, cooked, roasted, and chicken, broilers or fryers, drumstick, meat and skin, cooked, roasted. On this Chicken drumstick 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” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken drumstick, stewed, skin not eaten. 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 “baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “baked, coated, skin / coating eaten”, “fried, coated, skin / coating not eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “grilled without sauce, skin not eaten”, and “stewed, skin not eaten”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    12 source-input codes appear across the selected records. Their presence and listed weights describe USDA formulations, not finished plated proportions.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Chicken drumstick, …, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken drumstick 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 is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant”, “fried, coated, prepared skinless, coating eaten, from raw”, “grilled with sauce, skin not eaten”, and “stewed, skin not eaten”—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 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.

Explore this meal family

3 more-specific chicken drumstick guides

Use a focused guide when its description matches your meal. Each one keeps its own exact source records and links back to this broader family.

Focused guide Chicken drumstick baked or broiled skin Chicken drumstick baked or broiled skin: compare 4 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations. Focused guide Chicken drumstick fried coated Chicken drumstick fried coated: compare 7 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations. Focused guide Chicken drumstick, baked Chicken drumstick, baked: compare 4 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations.

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 25 exact records behind Chicken drumstick 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, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant: a 12.1 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant is denser; Chicken drumstick, grilled with sauce, skin eaten is higher in its source amount

Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant reports 203 kcal per 100 g and 122 kcal in USDA source amount (60 g). Chicken drumstick, grilled with sauce, skin eaten reports a lower 200 kcal per 100 g but a higher 170 kcal in USDA source amount (85 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Preparation wording (baked, roasted, or broiled versus raw; fried) 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 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, baked or broiled, skin not eaten, from fast food / restaurant vs Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. 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 Compare two records on this page Chicken drumstick, baked, broiled, or roasted, skin not eaten, from raw vs Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from raw

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: raw; baked, roasted, or broiled versus raw; fried; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 25 context records in this source topic Chicken, whole pieces

Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken drumstick, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from pre-cooked 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 6 of 25 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–18 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 9 of 25 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 78–100 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, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant 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, baked or broiled, skin eaten, from fast food / restaurant to 27 mg in Chicken drumstick, fried, coated, skin / coating eaten, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path