Calories in Butter
Butter
is considered by many people to be one of the unhealthy fats or
oils,
but all oils good and bad will make you gain weight. Butter
is often
found as an ingredient for snacks and cookies and pasteries because it
tastes so good. It is best to try and avoid butter although a little
bit is not going to kill you and may even be good for you particularly
if you have not eaten enouth fats and oils.
To
summarize:
1 pat of butter has 36 calories (0.25 calorie cash™)
1
stick of butter has 810 calories (8.00 calorie cash™)
1
tablespoon of butter has 102calories (1.00
in calorie cash™)
1 cup of butter has 1628 calories (16.25 in
calorie cash™)
For many people this (1
cups worth) is a whole days worth of calories!
| Calories in Butter without
salt |
|
| | cup |
tbsp |
pat | stick |
| |
100.0g | 227g |
14.2g | 5g |
113g |
| Water | g |
17.94 | 40.72 |
2.55 | 0.9 |
20.27 |
| Energy | kcal | 717 | 1628 | 102 | 36 | 810 |
| Protein | g |
0.85 | 1.93 |
0.12 | 0.04 |
0.96 |
| Total lipid (fat) | g |
81.11 | 184.12 |
11.52 | 4.06 |
91.65 |
| Carbohydrate, by difference |
g |
0.06 | 0.14 |
0.01 | 0 |
0.07 |
| Fiber, total dietary |
g |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
0 |
| Sugars, total | g |
0.06 | 0.14 |
0.01 | 0 |
0.07 |
| Minerals |
| Calcium, Ca | mg |
24 | 54 |
3 | 1 |
27 |
| Iron, Fe | mg |
0.02 | 0.05 |
0 | 0 |
0.02 |
| Magnesium, Mg | mg |
2 | 5 |
0 | 0 |
2 |
| Phosphorus, P | mg |
24 | 54 |
3 | 1 |
27 |
| Potassium, K | mg |
24 | 54 |
3 | 1 |
27 |
| Sodium, Na | mg |
11 | 25 |
2 | 1 |
12 |
| Zinc, Zn | mg |
0.09 | 0.2 |
0.01 | 0 |
0.1 |
| Vitamins |
| Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid |
mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
0 |
| Thiamin | mg |
0.005 |
0.011 |
0.001 | 0 |
0.006 |
| Riboflavin | mg |
0.034 |
0.077 |
0.005 |
0.002 | 0.038 |
| Niacin | mg |
0.042 |
0.095 |
0.006 |
0.002 | 0.047 |
| Vitamin B-6 | mg |
0.003 |
0.007 |
0 | 0 |
0.003 |
| Folate, DFE | mcg_DFE |
3 | 7 |
0 | 0 |
3 |
| Vitamin B-12 | µg |
0.17 | 0.39 |
0.02 | 0.01 |
0.19 |
| Vitamin A, RAE | mcg_RAE |
684 | 1553 |
97 | 34 |
773 |
| Vitamin A, IU | IU |
2499 | 5673 |
355 | 125 |
2824 |
| Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) |
mg |
2.32 | 5.27 |
0.33 | 0.12 |
2.62 |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) |
µg |
1.5 | 3.4 |
0.2 | 0.1 |
1.7 |
| Vitamin D | IU |
60 | 136 |
9 | 3 |
68 |
| Vitamin K (phylloquinone) |
µg |
7 | 15.9 |
1 | 0.4 |
7.9 |
| Lipids |
| Fatty acids, total saturated |
g |
51.368 |
116.605 | 7.294 | 2.568 | 58.046 |
| Fatty acids, total
monounsaturated | g | 21.021 |
47.718 |
2.985 |
1.051 |
23.754 |
| Fatty acids, total
polyunsaturated | g | 3.043 |
6.908 |
0.432 | 0.152 |
3.439 |
| Cholesterol | mg |
215 | 488 |
31 | 11 |
243 |
| Other |
| Caffeine | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
0 |
You
might have noticed that butter has slightly fewer calories than the
same amount of oil. This is because there is a small amount of water in
butter.
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