Combining the Colonel's signature Original Recipe® blend of 11 herbs and spices with big bite-sized pieces of 100 percent breast meat chicken, Bites are freshly prepared and hand breaded, just like KFC's world-famous Original Recipe chicken on the bone.

The Regular chicken is breaded with a standard flour-based coating and has a traditional fried chicken taste, while the Extra Crispy chicken is breaded with a thicker coating that contains a blend of different seasonings and has a crunchier texture.

The double-breaded version is a crispier, flakier version of KFC's original recipe. With more batter and breading, Extra Crispy Chicken is higher in calories than the classic recipe.

No one doubts that KFC's menu will always feature tasty, salty Original Recipe and Extra Crispy chicken. But while some new menu items connect with consumers, others fall flat. Certain ones made people wonder what the heck KFC corporate was thinking and were pulled quickly.

The entire KFC menu is, for the most part, unhealthy. This is because nearly all KFC products contain fried chicken which is packed with saturated fat and cholesterol.

It's not chicken. It's a fried product composed of water, enriched wheat flour and soy protein isolate, spices and other ingredients. Calling anything that is not the meat of Gallus gallus domesticus “chicken” is a lie.

Extra Crispy is double breaded by hand with a unique mix of herbs and spices then it is open fried. By comparison, Original Recipe uses the 11 herbs and spices, is hand breaded once and pressure fried in Colonel's unique method.

After some trial and error, they decided the chicken should be soaked in buttermilk and coated once in the breading mixture, then fried in oil at 350 °F (177 °C) in a pressure fryer until golden brown. As a pressure fryer was too big, a deep fryer was used alternatively as a substitute.

While chicken is an obvious Men's Health staple, KFC's reliance on greasy oils and subsequent sky-high calorific content makes Maccy's an unlikely victor. The more varied menu and healthy options, as well as classic, gut-busting fare, make it the ideal spot to play fast and loose with your nutrition plan.

If you're looking for the healthiest foods at KFC, order the:

• Kentucky grilled chicken breast.
• house salad.
• light Italian dressing (if you need it)
• side of green beans.
• oatmeal cookie (if you want dessert)

The secret menu has three items on it - the Zinger Stacker Twister, the BBQ Bacon and Cheese Twister and the Kentucky Snack Box. “KFC secret menu Kentucky snack box is huuuuuge,” she wrote in the post on the popular Facebook group, “and only $5.95.”

While chicken is an obvious Men's Health staple, KFC's reliance on greasy oils and subsequent sky-high calorific content makes Maccy's an unlikely victor. The more varied menu and healthy options, as well as classic, gut-busting fare, make it the ideal spot to play fast and loose with your nutrition plan.