Sanders calories. Calorie content of FSC dishes: nutritional value and composition of products

KFC is an American chain of fast food restaurants, which over the 63 years of its existence on the market has managed to overtake dozens of competitors in more than 118 countries. In Russia, it ranks 2nd in popularity among fast food producers, second only to.

The success story began with the great love of its founder, Harland Sanders, for chicken meat. It was he who became the author of the legendary chicken wings recipe, in which a mixture of 11 herbs and spices plays a key role. Until now, the description of the mixture is one of the most closely guarded trade secrets.

We will not describe in detail all the stages of the formation of a real fast food empire. It will be much more useful to find out what is harmful about KFC.

Why is KFC delicious or what are the harmful additives?

Checks of the network in Russia revealed an increased content of preservatives in products. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the use of preservatives, but the harm lies not even in these additives. The other 2 components are much more dangerous: sugar.

Trans fats obtained through special processing of vegetable oil negatively affect metabolic processes and lead to obesity. Well, sugar is presented in products in such a volume that allows us to classify a harmless additive as harmful.

Flavorings that create the illusion of freshness and naturalness of products are also harmful, and our brain perceives fast food as safe and tasty.

Why do you get fat from KFC or chicken?

The main ingredient of the menu is chicken in all its forms. People choose KFS among all fast food restaurants, because chicken is tasty, healthy and dietary.

But during the cooking process, the calorie content of meat increases, sometimes significantly. For example: the calorie content of chicken wings is only 125 kcal, KFC wings are 237.

Where do these numbers come from? It is enhanced primarily by flour breading and oil, in which the meat is fried like French fries. Add the sauce and it will be about 500 kcal for a standard serving of 6 wings with cheese sauce.

There is one more nuance - leather. It is this that concentrates 80% of the fat content of meat. Ultimately, the calorie content of the same wings is higher than the calorie content of a piece, due to the larger area covered with skin and breading. This leads to a simple conclusion - almost half of the harmless chicken at KFC consists of useless calories. Frequent use of it can lead to excess weight.

Harm to children

How children are lured into the “fast food” funnel of addiction is a separate topic. Each chain has its own policy, and KFC is no exception. This restaurant, along with McDonald's, produces special children's kits.

Parents follow the lead of their children, buying them a special set of children's food, and then wonder why the child no longer likes the same chicken meat, but cooked at home. It is at school age that children begin to become addicted to fast food, which ultimately leads to major health problems.

We present to you the composition of the “lunch for the little ones” at KFC:

“Take for your little visitors a Children's lunch of four courses to choose from: hot (two strips or a piece of chicken), French fries, a drink (juice 0.2 l, carbonated drink 0.3 l or tea 0.3 l) and dessert - ice cream with your choice of topping: strawberry, caramel or chocolate"

Do you think the option of such a lunch with tea is popular? How about the fact that French fries contain 14 grams of trans fat when the maximum for a school-age child is 3 grams of processed fat per day? Think before you take your child to a restaurant.

The most harmful dishes at KFC

At KFC, the caloric content of dishes is quite high and is achieved due to the large amount of fat and carbohydrates. Therefore, when choosing food in a restaurant, you need to pay attention specifically to the indicators of fats and carbohydrates, cutting off everything that is excessively fatty and everything sweet. You also need to cut off spicy meat, which will only irritate your stomach and increase your appetite even more.

And, perhaps, the most harmful thing not only in KFC, but in all fast food restaurants is French fries. This food has no benefit and is very harmful because it is fried in oil and contains trans fats.

Life hack from StyleFitness: the least harmful dishes at KFC

There are situations when, in the company of friends, it is awkward to refuse to visit a fast food restaurant, or there is simply no opportunity to eat elsewhere. Then you have to choose the lesser evil, that is, the least harmful dishes from the menu.

The most harmless food at KFC is chunks. These are large portions of chicken meat (usually breast or thighs), fried in breading. It will be easier to remove the skin with the harmful branded crust from the piece, leaving only harmless white meat.

Of course, there is salad on the menu, but we don’t recommend taking it (look at its calorie content in the table below).

It’s hard to think of a worse combination than fried and cold, so avoid soda and ice cream. Opt for tea or coffee with minimal added sugar.

Calorie table for KFC main dishes

Dish	Portion weight	Proteins, per serving	Fats, per serving	Carbohydrates, per serving	Kcal, per serving
Piece (1 piece)
Wings (3 pcs)
Strips (3 pcs)
Basket duet
Basket 16 wings
I-twister cheese
Caesar Salad (without dressing)
French fries (standard)
Wafer caramel
Cherry pie
Ice cream ice cream chocolate

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It is impossible to imagine that fast food chains will one day be closed everywhere, so we can only rely on our own awareness. Choose only healthy foods, and you will always be beautiful and healthy.

Speaking about the calorie content of various parts of chicken, it should be noted that many are mistaken in thinking that chicken breast is somehow special. In fact, the calorie content of any chicken meat is almost the same.

Calorie content per 100 g for broiler chickens: breast - 110 kcal without skin and 170 kcal with skin, leg - 119 kcal without skin and 161 kcal with skin, thigh - 119 kcal without skin and 211 kcal with skin, leg - 120 kcal without skin and 187 kcal with skin.

Chicken skin

As is quite easy to see, the most high-calorie part of the chicken is its skin, which consists of more than a third of pure fat. More than 80 percent of the calories contained in chicken skin come from animal fat.

One gram of fat has twice the calories of one gram of carbohydrates or protein, and contains 9 calories. Our body's needs for animal fats are quite small, and most of the excess calories will go into subcutaneous fat.

Calorie content of wings

The calories in one large chicken wing are approximately 125 calories without the skin and 237 calories with the skin. In addition, there is not so much meat in a wing - usually only 6-9 grams per average wing.

It is also important that the cooking process also affects the calorie content - if you fry in oil, this will add another 20-30 calories to each wing. Not to mention breading or various sugar and honey sauces.

How are chicken wings prepared?

The secret to the crispy crust of wings from KFC or McDonald's is flour breading and caramel sauce. In addition, during cooking it is used, thanks to which the dish seems so unusually tasty.

In addition, bleu cheese sauce, with which chicken wings are most often served in restaurants, deserves special attention. It is made with heavy cream, cheese and vinegar, and the calorie content is approximately 20-30 kcal per teaspoon.

KFC wings calories

Six KFC Rostix Spicy Chicken Wings contain 450 kcal, 30 g fat (half daily value), 145 mg cholesterol (half daily value), 1120 mg salt (half daily value), 23 g carbohydrates and 24 g protein.

Sometimes you can find chicken wings at McDonald's. Due to the use of a sweeter marinade, their calorie content is higher - approximately 640 kcal (serving of 4 pieces). Additionally, add about 50 calories per package of BBQ sauce.

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Chicken wings are the highest calorie part of the chicken; in addition, the cooking method (flour breading, syrups and frying in oil) significantly increases their calorie content. A small portion (4-6 pieces) contains at least 500 kcal.

American “chicken” fast food is consumed for $5 billion a year, but if you want to look for something healthy there, it will be difficult and tasteless.

Chicken with a beard

The man with the goatee who smiles at you from the logo is not Eduard Limonov, as it might seem to an unprepared politicized Russian, but someone “Colonel Sanders”, who founded KFC in 1952. The name stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken and tells us about the base product of most dishes in this eatery - chicken.

We tried to forget the horror stories about fast food chicken and especially that one - after all, we have to chew and swallow something from there that is as healthy and quite nutritious as possible.

Fat with fat “healthy way”

Having previously analyzed the composition/calorie content of dishes at KFC, we knew what we would order: 3 “original strips” , wedgie salad, boiled corn and Americano. Such a quick lunch cost us 330 rubles.

“Strips” – meat and biomass of chicken origin, generously breaded with spices. There are spicy and classic options. 3 small pieces contain 243 calories, a whopping 21 grams of protein, 13 grams of fat and 11.5 grams of carbohydrates.

But breading, like any fat-containing product, has a very positive effect on the taste.

The name of the Wedgie salad fully corresponds to its contents: inexpensive tomatoes, lettuce leaves, and the good old root vegetable carrots. Frankly, the salad could be tasty without dressing if you buy more expensive and tastier ingredients. There is quite a lot of salad in the bucket itself - as much as 200 grams, which accounts for only 56 calories, 2 grams of protein, 2.5 of fat and 5.4 of carbohydrates.

As a dressing for the salad, they serve a small high-calorie grenade with the inscription “Balsamic”, the cloudy brownish contents of which, apart from the name, have nothing to do with balsamic (as balsamic vinegar is usually called).

The label on the back showed that this 50-gram bag alone contained almost 200 calories and a whopping 20 grams of fat. There is approximately the same amount of fat in the same McDonald's Big Mac, but at least it comes with proteins.

Fat makes food tastier, especially noticeable if the food itself is so-so.
In the case of the “Vedgie” salad, in the opinion of “Zozhnik”, there is a clear deception of the buyer: an unsuspecting well-fed person on a diet takes what she thinks is a “healthy” salad (about 50 calories) and without hesitation slams in the default dressing (almost 200 calories, almost all from fat). The result is a rather high-calorie, not particularly healthy and not very tasty (because it’s kind of “healthy”) dish.

The most honest dish at KFC is boiled corn, or rather half an ear of corn for 49 rubles. They couldn't add breading to it and didn't include any dressing. Half a cob promises 104 calories, almost 2 grams of protein, 4 grams of fat and about 15 grams of carbohydrates.

By the way, the apparent cheapness of fast food is based on trifles, and they clearly did a good job with pricing: we, for example, could not remember when we paid almost 100 rubles for an ear of boiled corn, but 49 for half an ear seems to us to be quite an adequate price.
If all this is topped with Americano without sugar (89 rubles), then the total calorie content of this rather mediocre-tasting lunch will be about 400 calories without balsamic and about 600 with salad dressing.

Unfortunately, the rest of the food options at KFC look even worse in terms of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and calories.

Garland David Sanders (09.09.1890 - 16.12.1980) - founder of the world famous fast food chain KFC. The brand got its name - “Kentucky Fried Chicken” (in the original - Kentucky Fried Chicken, abbreviated as KFC).

Mr. Sanders was the best at cooking fried chicken with spices and herbs, his unique recipe, and turned it into a business in 1952. What sets Sanders restaurants apart from other fast food establishments is the variety of dishes. And we will look at their calorie content in “KFS” in our article.

Biography of millionaire Garland Sanders

The future millionaire was born into a poor family of a farmer. His father earned little, but his family of 5 people had enough to live on.

When the boy was only 6 years old, his father died and his mother had to go to work, leaving Garland to look after his younger brother and sister. And instead of going to school, he took care of the younger ones and prepared food for them. This is what gave Sanders the impetus to develop his culinary talent. It took him several months to master all the family recipes.

KFC brand

At the age of 10, the boy began to earn money on his own. He got his first job on a neighboring farm - as an assistant. And as a teenager, he began to lead an independent life, providing for himself, and lived away from his family. He changed jobs for many years without staying anywhere, and this continued until he was 40 years old.

But in 1930, everything changed - Sanders opened his own auto repair shop in the city of Corbin, where he began to actively develop another business - fast food catering. The future millionaire had to overcome many difficulties, but he achieved success at the age of 70, when hundreds of American restaurants became his partners, selling his signature dish according to a unique recipe.

Energy value of food in fast food restaurants

The calorie content (or energy value) of food is the amount of energy received by the body necessary to maintain life and perform all necessary processes. You can only get it from food during the process of digestion.

Energy value is measured in kilocalories. Each age requires its own average daily intake of energy and nutrients. Since the KFC brand cares not only about the quality of the products used for its dishes, but also about the health of consumers, it provides publicly available information on calorie content in the KFC.

Advantages of fast food restaurants

Every fast food restaurant has burgers with different energy levels. At the moment, one of Sanders’ favorite burgers in the chain is “Fresher”, since the calorie content of “Fresher” in “FSC” is 331.00 kcal (per 100 g). But why is the issue of calories so relevant today when eating fast food?

Nowadays, no one will be surprised by the term “fast food”. And, perhaps, everyone is familiar with the features of a fast food restaurant. For what reasons is this area so in demand and continues to gain momentum in its popularity? Let's consider a few main points:

1. Economical. Anyone can afford lunch. And regularly held promotions do not allow the flow of consumers to subside.
2. Varied menu. The choice of dishes will satisfy the needs of each client.
3. Taste qualities of dishes. Sauces and condiments add flavor to food.
4. Food without waiting. There is no need to wait 30-40 minutes for a dish. The menu is planned in such a way that preparation takes no more than 15 minutes.
5. Availability. Every city has several fast food restaurants.

And the only thing you have to worry about in fast food is the high calorie content of the dishes offered. For example, a large Sanders branded sandwich has a calorie content in KFS of 276.00 kcal.

Disadvantages of eating fast food

All nutritionists have the same opinion regarding the negative qualities of fast food restaurants, these are:

1. High calorie food. Almost everything cooked here contains an excess amount of calories.
2. There are transgenic fats that are formed as a result of frying the oil used for cooking.
3. To enhance the taste, food additives and preservatives are introduced into dishes.

Of course, no one will argue that this junk food destroys the digestive system and metabolic processes of the body. But if you follow moderation in everything, then nothing bad will happen. Thus, if you take a small portion instead of a large one, you can get, for example, the calorie content of french fries in KFS in 70 g - 193.22 kcal, and in 120 g - 331.20 kcal, in a basket (240 g) it is already equal to 662.40 kcal.

In addition, you should not go to a fast food restaurant too hungry and you need to carefully study the calorie content of the dishes. Currently, for the dishes sold at KFS, tables of the composition of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and calories are offered.

Calorie content of popular dishes at KFC

It should be noted that the KFC menu contains not only high-calorie products, but also low-calorie ones. For example, oatmeal, cheesecakes, scrambled eggs with bytes, pancakes with a choice of jam, salads and much more. For example, the calorie content of an Italian salad roll at KFS is 431.00 kcal. The branded chicken, which gave rise to the development of the brand, is also in high demand in the KFS chain. So, a breast without skin contains only 110 kcal, and a leg - 120 kcal.

Thus, you can see that the problem of high calorie content in KFS can be solved by choosing suitable products for yourself.

In addition to the main signature treat, there are dishes that are no less popular: French fries, burgers, salads, rolls. Each of them is accompanied by a table of calorie content of dishes in "KFS", allowing the visitor to think about his menu and not worry about his figure.

Good day, readers of my blog. Despite the fact that I try to keep myself and my figure in order, my soul sometimes asks for something harmful, namely to go to KFC, the calorie content of the dishes in which cannot be called low. Although I know very well, and it’s no secret to you, that the dishes there are terribly tasty and almost as high in calories. But we have ingenuity and we will find a way out!

KFC is a food chain whose specialty is all kinds of chicken delicacies. The signature dish that started the popularity of this brand is pieces of chicken fried in batter or breadcrumbs. Just imagine how high in calories it is! But it’s also delicious. Therefore, let's look for a way to visit a CFS establishment, the calorie content of the dishes in which can be calculated so that your conscience does not torment you, and your stomach is happy.

To maintain yourself in good physical shape, you should adhere to a daily routine and diet. But in order to feel like a harmonious person, it is sometimes worth taking small liberties and moving away from a strict diet. I propose a number of simple rules thanks to which you can combine business with pleasure:

1. Visit similar establishments no more than once or twice a week. After all, we don’t go to KFC to eat, but to treat ourselves. Therefore, you should not have chicken and fries for dinner every night or buy a hamburger and cola every lunch break! You can arrange a fasting day for yourself and treat yourself to something stunningly appetizing, but not too high in calories;
2. Don't go toKFCvery hungry. It's like going to the supermarket - the more hungry you are, the more unplanned products in the cart. A stomach that is churning and asking for food is the strongest motivator to order everything, everything, and a little more from the menu. Therefore, be vigilant;
3. Think through your menu in advance, or even better, count calories using a special table. On the official KFC website you can find a well-written table that shows not only the number of calories in a dish, but also the ratio of fats, proteins and carbohydrates in it.
4. I looked at the calorie content of all the dishes myself and compiled a list of KFC dishes up to 400 calories. A reasonable approach will help keep your body in good shape and not lose that suddenly appeared kilogram in the gym. And below the picture, see the entire list, which is better to download.

1. Eat slowly and try to enjoy every bite. We remember that we came here not to gorge ourselves, but to savor the food. After all, for us the main thing is not the quantity of food, but its quality. By the way, the slower we eat, the faster we become full. Therefore, we chew with feeling, with sense, with arrangement;
2. Don't pay attention to promotional offers. KFC regularly comes up with all sorts of promotions and bonus programs. This could be a free soda with a large portion of wings or free fries that go with a huge portion of nuggets. These sets seem attractive, but they are just a good marketing ploy. It is impossible to “fall for” a lucrative offer and meet the number of calories we need. Therefore, it is better to order several separate dishes and then not regret your choice;

1. Actually, for the same reason you should not be tempted by large portions (baskets). Buying them is beneficial if you are going with a group, where you simply will not be allowed to eat everything alone 😀 Baskets often come with “inconspicuous” potatoes or sweet soda, which will then noticeably affect our thighs;
2. Before you visit KFC you need to firmly decide that low-calorie dishes are tasty, healthy and what we need now! Luckily, the restaurant chain offers quite a large selection. Here you can find oatmeal, pancakes, scrambled eggs, cheesecakes and much more. If you compare the number of calories in them and a bucket of wings, then scrambled eggs and oatmeal are the clear favorites;
3. Always It’s better to order chicken separately instead of basket. At KFC, you can order chicken individually. With such an order, you can easily calculate the ratio of the calorie content of one meal in relation to the daily calorie intake. Just imagine the situation: you ordered a large bucket of strips, but only ate one third. So where should everything else go? Of course, finish eating. But these are extra kilograms, centimeters, which is very undesirable. Especially for those who want to lose weight.

There are many theories and practices in which the issue of losing weight and keeping the body in good shape is considered from different, sometimes shocking, angles. The approach to competent weight loss includes not only calorie restrictions, all kinds of diets and exercise. The key point is harmony with yourself and the ability to “agree” with the body. After all, the most important goal of all practices is to improve the quality of life.

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