How much protein is in a roasted chicken wing with skin?

A roasted chicken wing with skin has 23.8 g of protein per 100 g and 20.2 g per 1 piece (85 g). That is 9.4 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.

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Chicken drumsticks and wingsUSDA SR LegacyFDC 173630

Calories in a roasted chicken wing with skin

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

The short answer

A roasted chicken wing with skin: 254 kcal per 100 g. 1 piece (85 g) is 216 kcal with 20.2 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 173630, "Chicken, broilers or fryers, wing, meat and skin, cooked, roasted".

Per 100 g

Nutrient	Per 100 g	Share of energy
Energy	254 kcal	100%
Protein	23.8 g	37%
Fat	16.9 g	60%
Carbohydrate	0 g	0%

A roasted chicken wing with skin is 254 kcal per 100 g in USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy). Of that energy, about 37% comes from protein, 60% from fat and 0% from carbohydrate. That works out to 9.4 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	254	23.8 g	16.9 g
3 oz	85 g	216	20.2 g	14.3 g
1 piece	85 g	216	20.2 g	14.4 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.

Worth knowing

Wings are the fattiest part of the bird by weight because the skin-to-meat ratio is so high; roasted with skin they run about 90 kcal per 100 g above skinless breast. A single roasted wing is small, though — the calories come from eating ten.

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 roasted chicken wing with skin

How many calories are in a roasted chicken wing with skin?: A roasted chicken wing with skin: 254 kcal per 100 g. 1 piece (85 g) is 216 kcal with 20.2 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 173630, "Chicken, broilers or fryers, wing, meat and skin, cooked, roasted".
How much protein is in a roasted chicken wing with skin?: A roasted chicken wing with skin has 23.8 g of protein per 100 g and 20.2 g per 1 piece (85 g). That is 9.4 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 “roasted chicken wing with skin” into calorie.one and the app matches this exact record — “Chicken, broilers or fryers, wing, meat and skin, cooked, roasted” — 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.