6 Pc. Chicken Nuggets

6 Pc. Chicken Nuggets at Burger King. 310 calories, $3.59, 16 g protein.

6 Pc. Chicken Nuggets

Photograph from Burger King, as published on its own menu.

310calories
$3.59price
16 gprotein
86calories per dollar

How it compares on the Burger King menu

At 310 calories it is heavier than 53% of the 259 Burger King items we track, against a menu median of 300. It delivers 5.2 g of protein per 100 calories, 33rd of 143 items with published protein. At 86 calories per dollar it is 160th of 251 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at Burger King

ItemCaloriesSaving
Cheeseburger300−10
Kid's Cheeseburger300−10
Small Have-sies™280−30
Large Mello Yello280−30
Small Hash Browns270−40

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNutrient density
Wendy's4 Pc. Chicken Nuggets170—
Wendy's4 Pc. Spicy Chicken Nuggets190—
Wendy's6 Pc. Chicken Nuggets260—
Wendy's6 Pc. Spicy Chicken Nuggets280—
Taco Bell5 Piece Crispy Chicken Nuggets320—
Taco Bell5 Piece Diablo Dusted Crispy Chicken Nuggets340—

What a 6 Pc. Chicken Nuggets costs across America

Priced at 6056 Burger King restaurants in 49 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $2.49 and $4.99, a spread of 100%.

$3.59median price
$2.49–$4.99middle 80%
6056restaurants priced
49states
971 restaurants at $2.49–$2.67606 restaurants at $2.67–$2.851048 restaurants at $2.85–$3.0328 restaurants at $3.03–$3.20167 restaurants at $3.20–$3.38137 restaurants at $3.38–$3.5694 restaurants at $3.56–$3.7451 restaurants at $3.74–$3.9283 restaurants at $3.92–$4.100 restaurants at $4.10–$4.2857 restaurants at $4.28–$4.451 restaurant at $4.45–$4.630 restaurants at $4.63–$4.812813 restaurants at $4.81 and above$2.49$4.81+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.

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$1.50cheapest sampled — Galesburg, IL
$6.99most expensive sampled — Kapaa, HI

The cheapest 6 Pc. Chicken Nuggets in the sample is $1.50 in Galesburg, IL, and the most expensive is $6.99 in Kapaa, HI. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 49 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 41 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
NC$2.49212cheapest
TN$2.49167cheapest
VT$2.496cheapest
ME$2.4926cheapest
HI$6.9917most expensive
SD$4.9924most expensive
ND$4.9914most expensive
NM$4.9951most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

108 of the 6,144 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was -11.1%. A typical one now charges $3.75.

$3.59$4.29$4.992026-09-01 - $4.99 - median of 435 restaurants2026-09-02 - $4.39 - median of 439 restaurants2026-09-03 - $4.39 - median of 441 restaurants2026-09-04 - $4.39 - median of 442 restaurants2026-09-05 - $3.59 - median of 1,274 restaurants2026-09-06 - $3.75 - median of 5,886 restaurants2026-09-07 - $3.69 - median of 5,942 restaurants2026-09-08 - $3.69 - median of 5,953 restaurants2026-09-09 - $3.69 - median of 5,956 restaurants2026-09-10 - $3.69 - median of 5,968 restaurants2026-09-11 - $3.75 - median of 5,999 restaurants2026-09-12 - $3.75 - median of 6,040 restaurants2026-09-13 - $3.75 - median of 6,057 restaurants2026-09-14 - $3.79 - median of 6,105 restaurants2026-09-15 - $3.75 - median of 6,106 restaurants2026-09-16 - $3.69 - median of 6,108 restaurants2026-09-17 - $3.59 - median of 6,108 restaurants2026-09-18 - $3.59 - median of 6,109 restaurants2026-09-19 - $3.59 - median of 6,109 restaurants2026-09-20 - $3.59 - median of 6,109 restaurants2026-09-21 - $3.59 - median of 6,109 restaurants2026-09-22 - $3.59 - median of 6,109 restaurants2026-09-23 - $3.59 - median of 6,109 restaurants2026-09-24 - $3.59 - median of 6,110 restaurants2026-09-25 - $3.75 - median of 6,144 restaurants2026-09-26 - $3.75 - median of 6,144 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $4.99 to 2026-09-26 · $3.75. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.

The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.

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Priced like this at Burger King

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the 6 Pc. Chicken Nuggets’s $3.59. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
Egg & Cheese Croissan'wich$3.5955%6,219
Egg & Cheese Biscuit$3.5965%6,124
French Fries$3.4933%6,269
Onion Rings$3.4933%6,258
Whopper Jr.® with Bacon$3.6941%6,265

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Cholesterol50 mg
Dietary Fiber6 g
Protein16 g
Saturated Fat3.5 g
Sodium550 mg
Sugars1 g
Total Carbohydrate19 g
Total Fat19 g
Trans Fat0 g

The nutrition label as Burger King publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.