Calories in a roasted chicken wing with skin.
254 kcal per 100 g.
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.
Chicken, broilers or fryers, wing, meat and skin, cooked, roasted · SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA FDC 173630
Nutrition for your portion
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | 100 g |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 254 kcal | 254 kcal |
| Protein | 23.8 g | 23.8 g |
| Carbohydrates | 0 g | 0 g |
| Fat | 16.9 g | 16.9 g |
| Fibre | 0 g | 0 g |
| Sugars | 0 g | 0 g |
| Saturated fat | 4.98 g | 4.98 g |
| Sodium | 98 mg | 98 mg |
| Salt (calculated from sodium) | 0.25 g | 0.25 g |
| Vitamin A (RAE) | 12 ug | 12 ug |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) | 0.2 ug | 0.2 ug |
| Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) | 0.69 mg | 0.69 mg |
| Vitamin K (phylloquinone) | 0.3 ug | 0.3 ug |
| Vitamin C | 0 mg | 0 mg |
| Thiamin | 0.07 mg | 0.07 mg |
| Riboflavin | 0.15 mg | 0.15 mg |
| Niacin | 6.32 mg | 6.32 mg |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.56 mg | 0.56 mg |
| Folate, total | 9 ug | 9 ug |
| Vitamin B12 | 0.35 ug | 0.35 ug |
| Potassium | 212 mg | 212 mg |
| Calcium | 18 mg | 18 mg |
| Phosphorus | 147 mg | 147 mg |
| Magnesium | 19 mg | 19 mg |
| Iron | 0.84 mg | 0.84 mg |
| Zinc | 1.64 mg | 1.64 mg |
| Selenium | 25.5 ug | 25.5 ug |
| Iodine | Unknown | Unknown |
| Copper | 0.04 mg | 0.04 mg |
Energy comes from USDA nutrient 1008. Salt is calculated as sodium × 2.5, with unit conversion to grams. It is not a separately measured salt value.
Preparation
At 254 kcal per 100 g this is the densest chicken row on the site, and it gets there honestly: the wing is a high-skin, high-fat cut, and roasting drives off water without driving off fat. Raw with skin is 191, so the oven adds 63 per 100 g purely by concentration. Frying, saucing or coating adds on top of this figure — buffalo sauce is largely butter, and a wet wing can carry 100 kcal of it.
Logging this food
USDA's piece here is 85 g and 216 kcal, bone included. Restaurant wings are usually served as a count, so the practical unit is the piece: six roasted wings is around 1,300 kcal before anything is dipped. Weigh the bones you leave if you want to be exact, or log by the piece and be consistent about the size you mean.
Swaps and alternatives
Taking the skin off after roasting is worth 51 kcal per 100 g — the largest skin saving anywhere in this family, because a wing is more skin than anything else. Baking instead of deep-frying keeps the crisp and drops the oil entirely. And a plain roasted wing at 254 against a sauced one is the difference between one figure and two, which is the real reason to log the sauce.