Calculate the calories in your meal
Add your foods, adjust the quantities and get the total calories and macros for your plate. Over 50 common foods built in. Free and instant.
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Meal total
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Carbohydrate0 g
Fat0 g
Average values per 100 g of food, raw or ready to eat as appropriate.
How do you count the calories in a meal?
Adding up the calories of each food on your plate is the most reliable way to estimate the energy in a meal. This tool also gives you the split between protein, carbohydrate and fat, which is useful for checking the balance of your meal. Weigh your food once or twice: you soon pick up reference points that make estimating quick in everyday life.
Going further
Compare the total with your calorie needs, check your split with the macro calculator, and explore the detailed values in our food database or our recipes with calculated calories.
Frequently asked questions
Are the calories for the raw or the cooked food?
Unless stated otherwise, these are values per 100 g of the food as it is eaten. Cooking concentrates or dilutes calories (pasta swells when cooked, meat loses water), so weigh food in the same state as the reference value where possible.
Do you need to count calories at every meal?
No. Counting is a learning tool: a few days is enough to understand where the calories hide and to calibrate your portions. After that, estimating by eye becomes natural.
My food is not on the list. What can I do?
Choose the closest food, or check our food database and calorie table for the exact value, then add an equivalent. The list covers the most common foods in a meal.
This tool provides an estimate for information only and does not replace the advice of a healthcare professional. No data you enter is collected or stored.