Chicken wing calorie value

CatBrush00
CatBrush00 Posts: 30
in Food and Nutrition
I am having so much trouble figuring out calories on some things.

One item are chicken wings and drummies. They are baked, no salt, with skin (skin can be removed). I add 0 calorie hot sauce to them.

4 0z serving. It seems as if the 4 oz serving is 3-4 wings. 0_o but I wont be full with just 4 of these tiny things. lol I want to be sure to have the correct amount of calories, even if it is only 4. (boohoo)

Any help appreciated. And more advice on calorie counting would be awesome too.

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  • s1lence
    s1lence Posts: 493
    Are you making them yourself? If you are you could create the recipe in your food diary and get a calorie read from there. Choosing baked chicken wings or just chicken wing/drum meat, whatever seasonings and oils you use, and your sauce adding them together and putting down your serving size is a good way to do it.

    However if you are trying to find them from a restaurant you may have to guess high for your calories if you can't find it online or in the database. Doing a search for the food and choosing what you think is closest to what you ate. You could also do this instead of creating your own food, but it's nice in my opinion to just get as accurate as possible.
  • CatBrush00
    CatBrush00 Posts: 30
    I am doing them myself. :-)

    I have tried the database, and I was unsure if I was getting the results for regular wings.
  • s1lence
    s1lence Posts: 493
    Since you are doing them yourself then if I were you I would just try to take the time to make a recipe. So many different way people make wings/drums you could get a huge variation. Since you know exactly (or if you are like me when I could sometimes- at least roughly) what you used to make them your best bet is to make your own recipe.
  • SomeoneSomeplace
    SomeoneSomeplace Posts: 1,094 Member
    There is a local place down the street from me that has wings like this, unbreaded, baked and with Tapatio hot sauce, which has no calories. They are medium in size and have 100 calories in each one. I think this sounds pretty accurate
  • simplesamplespace
    simplesamplespace Posts: 6
    Gosh now I really want some chicken wings...
  • CatBrush00
    CatBrush00 Posts: 30
    ok we figured it out. Actually, mark did... on his first try! lol

    Generic - Baked Chicken Wing (Alitas), 11 wings 426 calories

    It seems like a lot but dinner is our biggest meal since we are hungrier at night.

    Mine were home made, but if my calculations are correct the chicken wings posted here are close to accuracy, -_- Ugh I wish they would just say numbers of how many a person should consume. I dont have a food weight machine yet. :-P

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