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Calories per serving calculator

Total calories in the dish
Servings
Total cooked weight
g
Optional — gives calories per 100 g
Calories per serving 400 kcal
2400 kcal ÷ 6 servings
Per 100 g 133.3 kcal
Serving weight 300 g
A double portion 800 kcal
A half portion 200 kcal
Servings 6
Per 100 g survives serving-size arguments

Only as accurate as the ingredient figures you started from. Cooking losses, absorbed oil and drained liquid all shift the real total.

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320 × 100

Calories per serving is the recipe total divided by the number of servings. A 2,400 kcal dish serving six is 400 per portion — and if the cooked dish weighs 1,800 g, that is 133 kcal per 100 g.

How to work out calories per serving

1 Add up the calories of every raw ingredient.
2 Divide by how many servings the dish makes.
3 Weigh the finished dish to get a per-100-gram figure.
4 Use the per-100-gram figure to compare against packaged food labels.

The per-100-gram figure is the one worth having, because it survives serving-size disagreements. "One serving" is a decision rather than a measurement, and a dish that serves six generously serves four honestly. Weighing your actual portion against a per-100-gram figure removes the argument entirely. It also makes home cooking directly comparable with packaged food, which is always labelled per 100 g in Europe for exactly this reason.

Questions

Add the calories of every raw ingredient, then divide by servings. Oil and fats are the ones most often under-counted.

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