Know exactly what's in your cooking
Packaged food has a calorie label; home cooking doesn't. The recipe calorie calculator fixes that. Add each ingredient with the amount you actually used, and it totals the calories for the whole dish and splits them into a clean per-serving figure — perfect for meal prep, tracking and portioning.
How to get accurate results
The single biggest factor is measuring by weight. Volume measures like "a cup of rice" change dramatically depending on whether the rice is raw or cooked, packed or loose. A cheap kitchen scale removes the guesswork. If you only have cups and spoons, use these rough conversions:
- 1 tablespoon of oil or butter ≈ 14 g
- 1 cup of flour ≈ 120 g
- 1 cup of cooked rice ≈ 160 g
- 1 large egg ≈ 50 g
- 1 medium banana ≈ 118 g
Cooked vs. raw matters
Ingredients lose or absorb water when cooked, which changes their calories per gram. Rice and pasta roughly triple in weight as they cook, so "130 calories per 100 g cooked rice" is very different from raw. This calculator lists both cooked and dry versions for the big staples — choose the one that matches how you weighed it.
Custom ingredients
If something isn't in the list, choose "Custom ingredient" and type the calories per 100 grams straight from the product's nutrition label. That makes it easy to capture branded sauces, protein powders or regional items the database doesn't cover.
Put the numbers to work
Once you know per-serving calories, you can fit the dish into your day. Use our macro calculator to set a daily target, or the MyPlate calorie calculator to estimate how many calories you need in the first place.