How much protein is in cooked ground chicken?

Cooked ground chicken has 23.3 g of protein per 100 g and 19.8 g per 3 oz crumbled (85 g). That is 12.3 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.

Should ground chicken and turkey 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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Ground chicken and turkeyUSDA SR LegacyFDC 171117

Calories in cooked ground chicken

USDA FoodData Central record for “Chicken, ground, crumbles, cooked, pan-browned” — per 100 g, per every USDA serving size, and next to the other ground chicken and turkey rows.

The short answer

Cooked ground chicken: 189 kcal per 100 g. 3 oz crumbled (85 g) is 160 kcal with 19.8 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 171117, "Chicken, ground, crumbles, cooked, pan-browned".

Per 100 g

Nutrient	Per 100 g	Share of energy
Energy	189 kcal	100%
Protein	23.3 g	49%
Fat	10.9 g	51%
Carbohydrate	0 g	0%

Cooked ground chicken is 189 kcal per 100 g in USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy). Of that energy, about 49% comes from protein, 51% from fat and 0% from carbohydrate. That works out to 12.3 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	Carbs
100 g	100 g	189	23.3 g	10.9 g	0 g
3 oz crumbled	85 g	160	19.8 g	9.3 g	0 g

Compared with other ground chicken and turkey

Food	kcal / 100 g	Protein / 100 g	Per serving
Raw ground chicken	143	17.4 g	162 kcal · 4 oz crumbled
Cooked ground chicken	189	23.3 g	160 kcal · 3 oz crumbled
Raw ground turkey (93% lean)	150	18.7 g	170 kcal · 4 oz
Cooked ground turkey (93% lean)	213	27.1 g	181 kcal · 3 oz
A broiled ground turkey patty (93% lean)	207	25.9 g	176 kcal · 3 oz

The ground chicken and turkey 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 cooked ground chicken

How many calories are in cooked ground chicken?: Cooked ground chicken: 189 kcal per 100 g. 3 oz crumbled (85 g) is 160 kcal with 19.8 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 171117, "Chicken, ground, crumbles, cooked, pan-browned".
How much protein is in cooked ground chicken?: Cooked ground chicken has 23.3 g of protein per 100 g and 19.8 g per 3 oz crumbled (85 g). That is 12.3 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.
Should ground chicken and turkey 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 “cooked ground chicken” into calorie.one and the app matches this exact record — “Chicken, ground, crumbles, cooked, pan-browned” — 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.