Chicken giblets, cooked leads 7–1 · 8 categories decided · 1 tie
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Chicken giblets, cooked comes out ahead, winning 7 of 8 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Chicken drumstick with skin, roasted for more potassium.
Pick Chicken giblets, cooked for more protein, less saturated fat, less sodium, more calcium, more iron, more magnesium and more vitamin C.
Evenly matched on fiber.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better12.23 g16.09 gWIN
- Carbohydrate0 g0.46 g
- Fibermore is better0 g0 g
- Total sugarsless is better0 g—
- Total fat5.31 g3.29 g
- Saturated fatless is better1.43 g1.08 gWIN
- Sodiumless is better64.4 mg33.54 mgWIN
- Potassiummore is betterWIN129.32 mg93.29 mg
- Calciummore is better5.76 mg7.93 mgWIN
- Ironmore is better0.58 mg4.15 mgWIN
- Magnesiummore is better11.52 mg12.2 mgWIN
- Vitamin Cmore is better0 mg5.49 mgWIN
- Vitamin Dmore is better——
Winners are decided by deterministic per-metric rules on the stated basis; ties and missing data don’t score (missing ≠ zero). Educational information only — not medical advice.

