Calories in Popeyes Classic Chicken Sandwich

A highly popular menu item at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, the classic chicken sandwich is made with a breaded chicken breast that’s cooked to crispy perfection. It’s layered on a toasted brioche bun with classic (or spicy) mayonnaise and crunchy pickles.

You can pair the chicken sandwich with a side of cajun fries or mashed potatoes for a hearty lunch or dinner meal.

One chicken sandwich has 700 calories, 42 grams fat, 50 grams carbs, and 28 grams protein.

That is a hefty amount of dietary fat in one menu item. Read this post for our complete review of the calories, nutrition facts, ingredients, and allergens in Popeyes Classic Chicken Sandwich. Don’t miss the section below on Total Fat.

Nutrition

Calories

There are 700 calories in one serving, measured as a whole chicken sandwich. A little over half of the total calories are derived from fat. Carbohydrates contribute nearly 30% of the total calories, and the balance is from protein.

Fat: 380 calories
Carbs: 205 calories
Protein: 115 calories
Total: 700 calories per sandwich

The caloric breakout by nutrient is a rounded estimate based on the nutrition facts provided by Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. Calories may vary by location, as a result of how the sandwich is s prepared, or due to topping choices.

Total Fat

One fried chicken sandwich from Popeyes has 42 grams of fat, including 14 grams of saturated fat.

Saturated Fat

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, published by the Department of Health and Human Services, recommend limiting calories from saturated fat to less than 10% of total calories. The 14 grams of saturated fat in this one sandwich delivers 126 calories.

If I follow the dietary recommendations and consume a 2,000 calorie diet, then I should eat no more than 20 grams of saturated fat daily. One chicken sandwich has 70% of that limit.

126 calories from saturated fat in one sandwich (70% daily value).

Sodium

It’s important to take into account the amount of sodium in this sandwich. There are more than 1,700 milligrams of sodium in a single sandwich. That equates to almost three quarters (74%) of the total daily value recommended by the FDA. In one meal.

1,765mg sodium in one sandwich (74% daily value).

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size1Classic Chicken Sandwich

Amount Per Serving

Calories700

% Daily Value *

Total Fat42g

65%

Saturated Fat14g

70%

Trans Fat1.5g

Cholesterol90mg

30%

Sodium1765mg

74%

Total Carbohydrate50g

17%

Dietary Fiber2g

Sugar8g

Protein28g

57%

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Ingredients and Allergens

Chicken Sandwich Ingredients

Here is the list of ingredients in Popeyes’ Classic Chicken Sandwich.

Chicken: Chicken, Seasoning (salt, monosodium glutamate, and seasoning including dried garlic and dried onion).
Batter: Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Salt, Sugar, FD&C Yellow #5, and may contain Yellow #6, Red #40, Red #3, Grape Color Extract, Blue #1, Blue #2, Beet Color Extract, Annatto Extract and/or Turmeric Extract, Spices, Dried Whole Eggs, Nonfat Dried Milk, Leavening (sodium bicarbonate and/or sodium aluminum sulfate), Microcrystalline Cellulose, Natural Flavor, Corn Syrup Solids. The batter contains dairy and wheat.
Shortening: Cooked in Beef Tallow, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Beef Tallow, BHT (protects flavor), Citric Acid, and Dimethylpolysiloxane (anti-foaming agent).
Mayonnaise: Soybean Oil, Water, Egg Yolk, Distilled Vinegar, Whole Egg, Salt, Sugar, Spice, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Calcium Disodium EDTA (to protect flavor), Oleoresin Paprika (for color), Natural Flavor. Mayonnaise contains egg.
Bun: Enriched Unbleached Flour (wheat flour, malt barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Water, Sugar, Soy Oil, Yeast, Salt, High Fructose Corn Syrup, L Cysteine, Guar Gum, Dextrose, Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mon-Diglycerides (DATEM), Vegetable Shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed and/or canola oils), Calcium Stearoyl Lactylate, Malt, Ascorbic Acid, Enzyme, Potassium Iodate, Azodicarbonamide. The bun contains wheat and soy.

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Allergens

The Classic Chicken Sandwich is made with ingredients that include MSG, Wheat, Egg, Soy, and Milk.

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Prices, nutrition and images courtesy of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.

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