Chicken McNuggets
Chicken McNuggets at McDonald's. 193 calories, 10 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
Figures are for one serving of 64 g (4 pieces), as weighed by USDA.
193calories
10 gprotein
Dnutrition score
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 193 calories it is lighter than 66% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Its nutrition score is D — poor. Little nutrition for the calories. It ranks 33rd of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 5.2 g of protein per 100 calories, 44th of 174 items with published protein.
Every version of this, compared
Chicken McNuggets comes in 3 versions. They span 170 to 490 calories — a 320-calorie spread for what reads on the menu as the same thing.
| Version | Calories | Protein | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken McNuggets® (4 Piece) | 170 | 9 g | — |
| Chicken McNuggets | 193 | 10 g | — |
| Spicy Chicken McNuggets (10 Piece) | 490 | 26 g | — |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | Chicken Jr. | 440 | — |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calcium, Ca | 7.04 mg |
| Carbohydrate, by difference | 9.66 g |
| Cholesterol | 28.16 mg |
| Copper, Cu | 0.03 mg |
| Fatty acids, total saturated | 2.09 g |
| Fatty acids, total trans | 0.07 g |
| Iron, Fe | 0.57 mg |
| Magnesium, Mg | 15.36 mg |
| Niacin | 4.74 mg |
| Phosphorus, P | 174.08 mg |
| Potassium, K | 161.28 mg |
| Protein | 10.11 g |
| Riboflavin | 0.07 mg |
| Sodium, Na | 362.24 mg |
| Thiamin | 0.1 mg |
| Total lipid (fat) | 12.67 g |
| Vitamin B-12 | 0.21 µg |
| Vitamin B-6 | 0.26 mg |
| Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid | 0.77 mg |
| Zinc, Zn | 0.38 mg |
20 nutrients published for this item by USDA FoodData Central, normalised per 100 kcal for the score above.