Calories in chicken drumstick

Meat only, roasted. 155 kcal (649 kJ) per 100 g. Choose a portion below and every figure on the page updates.

A roasted chicken drumstick with the skin removed is dark meat, but it is leaner than its reputation suggests. Per 100 g of meat it provides 155 kcal (649 kJ), with about 24 g of protein, 5.7 g of fat and no carbohydrate. Dark meat also has more than twice the zinc of breast meat, and it supplies selenium and niacin.

Where the energy comes from

Share of total energy contributed by each macronutrient, using the standard 4/4/9 kcal per gram factors:

Things worth knowing

• One skinless roasted drumstick (96 g) has about 149 kcal (623 kJ) and 23 g of protein; a 3 oz (85 g) portion has about 132 kcal (551 kJ).
• Leaving the skin on raises the energy to about 191 kcal per 100 g, and a drumstick with skin (105 g) comes to roughly 200 kcal (839 kJ).
• Skinless roasted breast meat comes to about 165 kcal per 100 g, so skinless drumstick meat is not the high-calorie choice it is often assumed to be.
• 100 g of drumstick meat provides about half the Daily Value for selenium and more than a third for niacin.

Converting these figures

One 1 drumstick, without skin of chicken drumstick is 149 kcal, which is 623 kJ. To convert any other figure, divide kilojoules by 4.184 for calories, or use the converter on the home page.

It takes 154 g of chicken drumstick to reach 1,000 kJ (239 kcal). See how that compares with other foods on the 1000 kJ to calories page.