How much protein is in a fried chicken drumstick (skinless)?

A fried chicken drumstick (skinless) has 28.6 g of protein per 100 g and 12 g per 1 drumstick, bone and skin removed (42 g). That is 14.7 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.

Should chicken drumsticks and wings be weighed raw or cooked?

Weigh it in whichever state you log it, and use the row that matches — this page is the cooked row. Cooking does not change how many calories are there, only how many grams they are spread across: meat loses water in the pan and gets denser, grains and pasta absorb it and get lighter per gram.

All foods

Chicken drumsticks and wingsUSDA SR LegacyFDC 172375

Calories in a fried chicken drumstick (skinless)

USDA FoodData Central record for “Chicken, broilers or fryers, drumstick, meat only, cooked, fried” — per 100 g, per every USDA serving size, and next to the other chicken drumsticks and wings rows.

The short answer

A fried chicken drumstick (skinless): 195 kcal per 100 g. 1 drumstick, bone and skin removed (42 g) is 82 kcal with 12 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 172375, "Chicken, broilers or fryers, drumstick, meat only, cooked, fried".

Per 100 g

Nutrient	Per 100 g	Share of energy
Energy	195 kcal	100%
Protein	28.6 g	59%
Fat	8.1 g	37%
Carbohydrate	0 g	0%

A fried chicken drumstick (skinless) is 195 kcal per 100 g in USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy). Of that energy, about 59% comes from protein, 37% from fat and 0% from carbohydrate. That works out to 14.7 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.

Per serving

The serving sizes USDA lists for this record, priced from the per-100 g figures above. Nothing here is rounded to a “portion” — the gram weight next to each label is what the calories are computed from.

Serving	Weight	Calories	Protein	Fat
100 g	100 g	195	28.6 g	8.1 g
1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook chicken)	25 g	49	7.2 g	2 g
1 drumstick, bone and skin removed	42 g	82	12 g	3.4 g

Compared with other chicken drumsticks and wings

Food	kcal / 100 g	Protein / 100 g	Per serving
A raw chicken drumstick with skin	161	18.1 g	214 kcal · 1 drumstick with skin
A roasted chicken drumstick with skin	191	23.4 g	201 kcal · 1 drumstick with skin (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook chicken)
A fried chicken drumstick (skinless)	195	28.6 g	82 kcal · 1 drumstick, bone and skin removed
A raw chicken wing with skin	191	17.5 g	204 kcal · 1 piece
A roasted chicken wing with skin	254	23.8 g	216 kcal · 1 piece
A roasted chicken wing (skinless)	203	30.5 g	43 kcal · 1 wing, bone and skin removed

The chicken drumsticks and wings rows exist in more than one state because water moves during cooking: this is the cooked row. Weigh the food in the state you log and pick the row that matches — the calories don’t change in the pan, the grams do. The mechanics are in cooked vs raw weights.

Other tables in poultry products

The same numbers for the foods this one usually shares a plate — or a shopping list — with.

Questions about a fried chicken drumstick (skinless)

How many calories are in a fried chicken drumstick (skinless)?: A fried chicken drumstick (skinless): 195 kcal per 100 g. 1 drumstick, bone and skin removed (42 g) is 82 kcal with 12 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 172375, "Chicken, broilers or fryers, drumstick, meat only, cooked, fried".
How much protein is in a fried chicken drumstick (skinless)?: A fried chicken drumstick (skinless) has 28.6 g of protein per 100 g and 12 g per 1 drumstick, bone and skin removed (42 g). That is 14.7 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.
Should chicken drumsticks and wings be weighed raw or cooked?: Weigh it in whichever state you log it, and use the row that matches — this page is the cooked row. Cooking does not change how many calories are there, only how many grams they are spread across: meat loses water in the pan and gets denser, grains and pasta absorb it and get lighter per gram.

How calorie.one logs it

Type “fried chicken drumstick (skinless)” into calorie.one and the app matches this exact record — “Chicken, broilers or fryers, drumstick, meat only, cooked, fried” — estimates the grams, and shows the line with its USDA label. You correct the amount; the per-100 g figure is never guessed. That split between recognition and arithmetic is the whole methodology. For the numbers in context, read Calories in chicken breast: raw, cooked, skin on and off.