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Chicken wings with hot sauce calories per drummette: 89–95 across all 3 named USDA examples

Across all 3 named USDA examples, a drummette contains 89–95 calories. Each included example lists 35 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data.

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Preparation and portion

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Estimated for 140 g

381calories

Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant

Protein
23.5 g
Carbs
8.7 g
Fat
28.3 g

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The 3 exact records in this guide report 356–381 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 254–272 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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For Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, begin by separating “Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant” from “Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.

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Equal-weight view

How chicken "wings" with hot sauce records compare at 100 grams

All 3 cited records are shown at the same 100-gram weight. The source servings may differ.

  1. Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked 254 kcal
    254 kcal
  2. Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from other sources 267 kcal
    267 kcal
  3. Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant 272 kcal
    272 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 3 named USDA records in view: 3 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 3 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken wings with hot sauce.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, this page can compare 3 named records from FDC 2706070 through FDC 2706073. 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

A shared 140 g comparison anchor

Equal source weights make the selected Chicken "wings" with hot sauce serving totals easier to compare, but the eaten portion still has to be measured or estimated.

Composition

18 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “from precooked”; the higher is “from fast food / restaurant.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

101 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “from precooked” (741 mg) and “from fast food / restaurant” (842 mg).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

These 3 records each use a 140 g serving. Their serving calories compare equal weights within this set. They do not define a calorie range for every chicken "wings" with hot sauce; match the preparation and adjust to your portion.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked; “higher” ends with Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, 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 "wings" with hot sauce meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, 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 "wings" with hot sauce nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 381 kcal 272 23.5 g 0.1 g 1,179 mg FDC 2706070 ↗
Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from other sources Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 374 kcal 267 23.8 g 0.1 g 1,137 mg FDC 2706076 ↗
Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 356 kcal 254 24.6 g 0 g 1,037 mg FDC 2706073 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

Every selected record uses a 140-gram source amount, so serving-weight differences do not explain the calorie spread inside this set. Their own source servings run from 356 calories for “from precooked” to 381 for “from fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “from precooked” is 254 calories and “from fast food / restaurant” is 272—a fixed-weight separation of 18 calories. For Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, 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 “from fast food / restaurant”, “from other sources”, and “from precooked”. The source formulations contain 9 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include beverages, water, tap, drinking, chicken, broiler, rotisserie, bbq, wing, meat and skin, salt, table, and sauce, ready-to-serve, pepper, tabasco. On this Chicken "wings" with hot sauce 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 "wings" with hot sauce” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.

  1. 01

    A shared source weight

    Every selected record uses 140 grams. Inside this set, serving-calorie differences therefore reflect the published composition rather than a change in source weight.

  2. 02

    The words that split the family

    Representative record-level distinctions include “from fast food / restaurant”, “from other sources”, and “from precooked”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    9 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 "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken "wings" with hot sauce 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 "wings" with hot sauce is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“from fast food / restaurant”, “from other sources”, and “from precooked”—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 "wings" with hot sauce 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 3 exact records behind Chicken "wings" with hot sauce 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 "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant is higher in carbohydrate per 100 g

Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant reports 6.2 g versus 2.5 g for Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked: a 3.7 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

3 listed servings each weigh 140 g

The 3 records with a listed serving weight on this page each use 140 g. Their serving totals therefore compare equal weights, even if the household labels differ. Match the preparation and adjust the weight to the amount you eat.

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant” from “Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked”

These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Chicken "wings" with hot sauce source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

A formulation detail that separates records Beverages, water, tap, drinking

USDA input 14411 appears in 2 of 3 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–10 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, broiler, rotisserie, BBQ, wing, meat and skin

USDA input 5362 appears in 2 of 3 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 40–75 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 3 context records in this source topic Chicken, whole pieces

Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from other sources 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 Inspect an exact record Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706070 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

Follow this evidence path Check another exact record Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from other sources

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706076 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

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

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 27 mg in Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from precooked to 39 mg in Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path 3 records share this broad food family Meat & poultry: broader category context

Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from fast food / restaurant and Chicken "wings" with hot sauce, from other sources, plus 1 more are assigned to Feast’s Meat & poultry editorial category. Use the category page to compare nearby foods at a broad level; keep the exact USDA descriptions on this page for record-level decisions.

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