Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, regularly just called Popeyes, has been a go-to spot for southern style seared chicken since the mid 1970s. Notwithstanding chicken, Popeyes’ menu additionally incorporates fish dishes, sides, and treats motivated by conventional New Orleans food.
The drive-through joint spotlights on southern style food arrangement. Its menu offers a lot of conventional admission worked around singed chicken and fish, rich sauces, and boring side dishes. Popeyes’ marked “BONAFIDE” chicken is marinated, battered, and breaded before it gets seared.
While these plans are delectable, they normally utilize fatty, high-fat, and high-sodium fixings. In the event that you have explicit dietary needs and objectives, this is what you have to think about the nourishment substance of Popeyes’ menu things.
Chicken
Popeyes’ distinguishing strength is its BONAFIDE Chicken. The meat is hand-battered and breaded, marinated for 12 hours, at that point seared. You can arrange anyplace along the range of fieriness from mellow to strong.
Popeyes menu chicken is accessible in combo or family-size dinners just as individual requests. It’s critical to take note of that with bigger requests, it’s increasingly hard to appraise the dietary substance of individual bits.
At last, choosing a cut of Popeyes menu nutrition comes down to parcel size.1 You can get a solitary leg, thigh, bosom, or wing, all of which differ in size.
Least Nutritious Option
A solitary BONAFIDE chicken bosom, which is an altogether bigger part of the meat, gives 380 calories, 20g fat, 8g soaked fat, 1g trans fat, 16g sugar, 35g protein, and 1,230mg sodium.
Chicken tenders and Tenders
Popeyes likewise offers reduced down cuts of chicken, either chunks or handmade tenders, which come in bits of three, five, six, or nine pieces.
Most Nutritious Option
A 3-piece darkened chicken fingers offers 170 calories, 2g fat, 0g immersed fat, 2g sugars, 26g protein, and 550mg sodium.
Least Nutritious Option
Relatively, the 3-piece zesty or mellow high-quality tenders give 445 calories, 21g fat, 9g soaked fat, 1g immersed fat, 29g sugars, 38g protein, and 1,821mg sodium.
Size up to the 5-piece and you’re in for 740 calories, 34g fat, 14g soaked fat, 2g trans fat, 48g starches, 63g protein, 3,040 mg sodium.
Little servings of Popeyes’ pieces and tenders are comparable in calorie, fat, and sodium content, however, because of the little size, chunks offer less protein.
Breaded and Baked Healthy Homemade Chicken Nuggets
Fish is another staple of southern food, and Popeyes offers a couple of choices as popcorn shrimp and fish filets. Fish can be requested as a supper, in a sandwich, or as a component of a combo with chicken.
Most Nutritious Option
The 3-piece Cajun fish filet gives 380 calories, 19g fat, 5g immersed fat, 0g trans fat, 37g starch, 16g protein, 4g sugar, and 1,650mg sodium.
A request for popcorn shrimp has a greater number of calories than a fish filet, yet it has significantly less sodium—simply 80mg per ¼ pound—settling on it a superior decision in case you’re attempting to constrain your salt admission.
The Cajun fish filet is the most minimal calorie fish choice and is likewise the main fish decision with no trans fat. Be that as it may, it is additionally the most noteworthy in sodium.
Least Nutritious Option
The 2-piece catfish filet comes in at 460 calories, 29g fat, 12g soaked fat, 2g trans fat, 27g sugar, 21g protein, and 1,140 mg sodium.
Sandwiches and Wraps
One of the most all-around adored things on Popeyes’ menu is the Po’ Boy sandwich—a great southern top pick. The drive-through eatery additionally offers a couple different sandwiches and wraps.
Most Nutritious Option
The stacked chicken wrap gives 310 calories, 12g fat, 5g soaked fat, 0, trans fat, 35g starch, 0g sugar, 14g of protein, and 790mg sodium.
Least Nutritious Option
The Cajun fish po’boy comes in at 750 calories, 52g fat, 17g soaked fat, 75g starch, 23g protein, 7g sugar, and 2,140 mg sodium.
Despite the fact that the catfish po’boy is higher in calories, it has less sodium and fat than the Cajun-style sandwich, no trans fat, and more protein.
Popeyes offers various sides, which are all accessible in two sizes: ordinary and huge. The sides run generally in health benefit, however, most are still fairly high in sodium.
One of the menu things Popeyes is most notable for is its buttermilk bread rolls. While they aren’t the least nutritious thing on the menu, at around 200 calories and 20g carbs per roll, they’re likewise not the most nutritious decision.
Most Nutritious Option
The customary green bean side offers 60 calories, 2g fat, 0g soaked fat, 7g starches, 3g protein, 2g sugar, and 680mg sodium.
A solitary side request for fresh corn is another vegetable choice. While it’s somewhat higher in calories, fat, and sugar, it has next to no sodium.