{"id":533237,"date":"2026-07-04T20:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533237\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:53:10","slug":"how-many-calories-joey-chestnut-ate-more-nutrition-facts-from-2026-nathans-hot-dog-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533237\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Calories Joey Chestnut Ate, More Nutrition Facts from 2026 Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Joey Chestnut consumed more than 17,000 calories in 10 minutes while claiming his <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25451022-joey-chestnut-eats-66-hot-dogs-18th-title-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-2026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">18th career victory<\/a> at the Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog Eating Contest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chestnut ate 66 hot dogs and buns Saturday morning at Coney Island to beat\u00a0runner-up Patrick Bertoletti by 15 hot dogs and win his second straight title at the Fourth of July event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chestnut consumed about 17,820 calories while winning the contest, according to nutrition information listed by <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/nathansfranks.sfdbrands.com\/en-us\/products\/hot-dogs\/bunlength-skinless-beef-franks-8-pack\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan&#8217;s beef franks<\/a> and <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomthumb.com\/shop\/product-details.960183349.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wonder bread Nathan&#8217;s style buns.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He also consumed a total 38,940 milligrams of sodium, 1,716 grams of carbohydrates and 594 grams of protein, according to the nutrition information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Those 66 hot dogs and buns also included 891 grams of fat, 396 grams of saturated fat and 1,320 milligrams of cholesterol, according to the nutrition labels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chestnut has won the last 10 Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog Eating Contests in which he has participated, although he missed out on the 2024 event after being <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10124395-joey-chestnut-out-of-2024-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-over-deal-with-competitor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">banned<\/a> due to a competing sponsorship deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He returned in 2025 and won by eating 70.5 hot dogs before retaining his title in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chestnut, 42, remains one of the world&#8217;s top competitive eaters 19 years after his debut at the annual Nathan&#8217;s contest. He entered the 2026 competition just weeks after setting a <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/joey-chestnut-smokes-competition-ultimate-180336048.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">world record<\/a> by eating 16 pounds of bologna at the Ultimate Bologna Showdown in Knoxville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey Chestnut consumed more than 17,000 calories in 10 minutes while claiming his 18th career victory at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[103,61,60,446],"class_list":["post-533237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}