Bite-sized Chicken Nuggets, coated in a crispy tempura. Served with our BK dip.

' Burger King's largest franchisee, Carrols Restaurant Group, revealed that the fast-food giant has reduced the number of chicken nuggets in its meals from 10 pieces to eight, in order to "limit the impact of higher input costs and help improve restaurant-level profitability."

✓ Chicken Nuggets (4 pieces) BK's 4-piece chicken nugget provides 224 calories, 11 g fat, 1.7 g saturated fat, 535 mg sodium, 23 g carbohydrate, 11 g sugar, and 8 g protein. These bite-sized portions can make for a low-calorie protein snack.

1985 The Burger King chicken nuggets were introduced in 1985 to compete with McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. Originally made with sliced fillets of chicken, the product was replaced with a formed, chopped-chicken product several years later.

Because they don't make any money off them. Other fast food joints price their nuggets to make a decent amount of profit off them. Burger kings nuggets are cheap in hopes that whoever comes in and buys them also buys a soda, some fries, a shake, etc. It works pretty good too.

The meat and oil used at Burger King are not halal. The meat is not halal. The oil they use to fry their sides (french fries, onion rings, cheesy tots, hash browns, etc.) is also the same that they use to fry the sandwich meat, so it is contaminated.

The McDonald's 10 piece Chicken McNuggets Combo Meal features 10 tender and delicious Chicken McNuggets made with all white meat chicken - plus our World Famous Fries and your choice of a medium McDonald's Drink.

Chicken McNuggets are sold in various portion sizes depending on the country of purchase. In the United States, they come in packs of 4, 6, 10, 20 and 50 (in selected stores). In some markets, including the United Kingdom, they are sold in packs of 4 (as part of a Happy Meal), 6, 9 or 20 (as a "ShareBox").

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.

In short, chicken nuggets aren't healthy and shouldn't be eaten on a regular basis, but if consumed every few weeks with a side salad and a zero calorie soft drink, it won't do that must damage to your waistline.

The chicken nugget was invented in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University, and published as unpatented academic work. This bite-sized piece of chicken, coated in batter and then deep fried, was called the "Chicken Crispie" by Baker and his associates.

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.