Made with 100 percent white meat and hand-breaded with KFC's unique Original Recipe of 11 herbs and spices that made the fried chicken chain famous, the Kentucky Fried Chicken Nuggets can be enjoyed as a full meal, a snack on-the-go, complement to the bucket meal or even as an appetizer on the way home!

The nuggets sell in increments of 5-, 8-, 12- or 36-piece and are available in combination meals with fries, a biscuit, and a medium drink.

Beyond bucket meals and homestyle sides, KFC specialties include KFC Chicken Nuggets, the KFC Chicken Sandwich in spicy and classic, Extra Crispy™ Tenders, KFC Famous Bowls®, KFC Mac & Cheese Bowls, Pot Pies and Secret Recipe Fries.

Fast Food Chicken Nuggets They're easy to pop in your mouth, but they're processed. There's chicken meat in them, along with bones, blood vessels, nerves, connective tissue, fat, and skin (although Chick-fil-A says its nuggets are made of boneless chicken breast) .

You might have noticed that McDonald's chicken nuggets are similarly shaped each time you order them. In fact, McNuggets come in just four shapes: the bell, the ball, the boot, and the bow tie, sometimes referred to as the bone.

$10 It's official: KFC has brought back 24 nuggets for $10. KFC confirmed the news in a post on Wednesday confirming the deal would return - complete with honey mustard sauce, of course.

It's official: KFC has brought back 24 nuggets for $10.

Nuggets are fried in hydrogenated oil and contain high amounts of sugar, fat, and preservatives. This makes them an unhealthy choice, especially if you eat them often.

The Verdict: Most varieties of processed chicken nuggets should be eaten sparingly. Besides offering little nutritional value, there contain an overwhelmingly high amount of preservatives.

Chicken nuggets tend to have high amounts of sodium, with one restaurant's six-nugget serving shown to contain around a quarter of the daily recommended intake. Nuggets can also be fried in hydrogenated oils, and they contain high amounts of preservatives, sugar, and fat.

Chicken Nugget Nutrition At best, most samplings are 50% meat. Under a microscope in a study, a nugget sample was seen to only have 40% meat, and of that meat, only 19% was protein.

A chicken nugget is a food product consisting of a small piece of deboned chicken meat that is breaded or battered, then deep-fried or baked. Invented in the 1950s, chicken nuggets have become a very popular fast food restaurant item, as well as widely sold frozen for home use.