How Many Calories in Alcohol? A Shot of Vodka, a Beer, a Glass of Wine
Pure alcohol is 7 kcal per gram — nearly twice sugar, second only to fat. USDA weighs a 1.5 fl oz shot of 80-proof vodka at 42 g and 97 kcal, a 12 oz regular beer at 153, a 5 oz glass of red wine at 125 and a margarita at 274, and in every one of them the ethanol is most of the number. That is why “zero carb” spirits are not zero calorie.
How Many Calories in an Apple? 95 for a Medium, and the Variety Barely Matters
The 95 everyone quotes is USDA’s 52 kcal per 100 g applied to a 182 g apple with its skin. USDA’s four size classes run from 53 to 116 kcal, peeling a medium apple takes off 18 kcal and half its fiber, and the five varieties USDA analysed separately span about 5 kcal per 100 g. Size first; the cultivar can wait.
How Many Calories in an Egg? Boiled, Fried, Scrambled and by Size
One large egg is 72 kcal raw, 78 hard-boiled, 90 fried and 94 as an omelet — and the gap is not the egg, it is the fat in the pan. USDA figures for every cooking method, every carton size from small to jumbo, white against yolk, and five two-egg breakfasts added up.
How Many Grams of Protein a Day? The RDA, Athlete Ranges and a Table by Body Weight
Three sources that publish their reasoning: the National Academies’ 0.8 g per kg RDA, the ISSN’s 1.4–2.0 g/kg for exercising people (2.3–3.1 in a deficit) and PROT-AGE’s 1.0–1.2 g/kg over 65, multiplied out for 50 to 110 kg, plus eleven foods with the USDA portion that delivers 20–30 g.
What Is a Calorie? Calories, kcal and kJ Explained With the Arithmetic
The calorie on a food label is a kilocalorie, pinned by definition to 4.184 kJ. Labels build the number from grams: protein and carbohydrate at 4 kcal each, fat at 9, alcohol at 7 — then round it and allow it to run 20 percent over. Four USDA-weighed foods show the arithmetic, and where it drifts.
Calories in 40 Common Foods: the Range, Not the Number
Google answers 'how many calories in a banana' with a single number, and that number is right for a banana nobody has. Forty common foods with USDA portion weights, grams, calories and the spread you actually get between a small one and a large one.
How Many Calories in a Chicken Breast? Raw vs Cooked, Settled
USDA publishes four different figures for chicken breast — raw 120 kcal, stewed and grilled 151, roasted 165, all per 100 g — because cooking removes water and concentrates everything that is left. This guide shows the cooking yield behind that gap, the 68 kcal you lose every time you weigh cooked and log raw, and why raw weighing is the rule worth keeping.
The Highest-Protein Chipotle Order, by Grams per Calorie
Chipotle publishes calories and protein for every ingredient, so a bowl is not a menu item — it is a sum you control. Ranked by protein per 100 calories, chicken tops the chart at 17.8 g, and one build reaches 66 g of protein in 420 calories while the standard burrito manages 62 g in 1,315.
High-Volume, Low-Calorie Foods: Eating More by Calorie Density
Calorie density — kcal per 100 g — decides how much food a calorie budget buys, and it is mostly a question of water content: 100 calories is 714 g of celery or 11 g of olive oil. Twenty-five foods ranked from the lowest density up, the swap arithmetic worked out at a fixed plate weight, and the honest limits of eating this way.
How Many Calories in a Slice of Pizza? It Depends on the Diameter
USDA measured exactly one pizza — a 14-inch chain cheese pie, 853 g whole, 107 g and 285 kcal a slice. Scale that by area and the same one-eighth slice runs 208 kcal at 12 inches and 469 at 18, which is why "two slices" means nothing until you say how big the pie was.
Is Chipotle Healthy? Eight Real Orders, Counted
Eight ordinary Chipotle builds, summed from the chain's own published per-ingredient chart, run from 390 to 1,470 calories and from 1,190 to 2,950 mg of sodium — and the leanest order turns out to be the saltiest per calorie. Includes the full ingredient table, six single-swap levers, and why fresh tomato salsa carries roughly eighty times the sodium of an equal-calorie serving of sour cream.
Lowest-Calorie Ice Cream: Per Serving vs Per Container
Eighteen ice creams with both columns shown: calories per declared serving and calories for the whole container, from Halo Top and N!CK'S pints at 250-370 for the tub up to a Ben & Jerry's Half Baked pint at 1,110. Includes the full-fat baselines, a per-100 g column because declared servings range from 72 g to 141 g, which products are actually sold in Spain, and what we left out for lack of a readable label.
