Food Calorie Table

The Food Calorie Table is a searchable, filterable and sortable quick-reference list of food calories. It currently holds 1,706 entries covering common Chinese ingredients, staples, home-style dishes, snacks, drinks and fast food. Each row shows the food name, its category and a calorie figure in kcal. It is reference material, not personalized nutrition advice. The numbers are approximations from commonly available nutrition data, and variety, cooking method, oil used and brand all change the real value, so it is not suitable for exact daily tracking or therapeutic diets. The whole table is searched inside your browser, and your search terms are not sent to any server.

How to use it

1. Type a keyword into the 'Search foods…' box, such as 米饭 (rice), 奶茶 (milk tea) or 鸡蛋 (egg). Matching is based on whether the food name contains your text, and it ignores case for Latin letters. The list filters as you type and shows '{N} foods found'.
2. Narrow the list with the category buttons below the search box: All, Staples, Protein, Dairy, Fruit, Vegetables, Nuts, Drinks, Snacks, Fast Food, Oils & Fats, Condiments & Sugar, Desserts and Soups & Stews. The category and the search word apply together. Current row counts: Staples 327, Protein 403, Dairy 28, Fruit 99, Vegetables 176, Nuts 57, Drinks 162, Snacks 154, Fast Food 118, Oils & Fats 15, Condiments & Sugar 50, Desserts 72, Soups & Stews 45, 1,706 in total.
3. Click the 'Food' or 'Calories (kcal/100g or stated serving)' header to sort. The default is by calories from low to high. Clicking the same column again reverses the order, and clicking Food sorts by Chinese pinyin order. The active column shows an up or down arrow.
4. If nothing matches you will see 'No matching foods found'. Try a shorter keyword or switch the category back to All.

Examples taken from the actual data

In the table, cooked rice is 116, steamed bun (mantou) 223, apple 52, banana 89, raw broccoli 34, raw chicken breast 133, tofu 81, walnut 654, potato chips 536 and rapeseed oil 900. Sorted from low to high, the top rows are 0 kcal drinks such as mineral water and unsweetened soda water. Sorted from high to low, the first rows are pure oils such as rapeseed, peanut and sesame oil at close to 900. Processing makes a big difference: apple is 52, but dried apple is 238; banana is 89, dried banana 346 and banana chips 520. If you want to compare what you actually eat in a serving, look at the weight of the serving as well as the number.

Data basis and known limits

• The column header says 'Calories (kcal/100g or stated serving)' because not every row is per 100 g. Some names state their own unit: '鸡蛋(整个,约50g)' at 78 kcal is one egg, '可乐(1罐330ml)' at 139 is one can, '白酒(100ml)' is per 100 ml, and entries such as fried chicken (1 piece), pizza (1 slice) and fries (1 medium serving) are per serving. Rows with no note in the name are mostly per 100 g reference values. Read the bracket in the name before comparing numbers.
• Prepared dishes, fast food and drinks (burgers, set meals, bubble tea) depend heavily on recipe, portion and brand. The table gives one typical value, which can differ a lot from what you actually buy.
• Values are approximations from commonly available nutrition data and have not been checked row by row against one specific food composition table. They are for everyday reference. For medical use or strict dieting, rely on the package nutrition label or advice from a doctor or dietitian.
• Categories have had a correction pass: two new categories were added, Desserts (sweet soups, cakes, puddings, sago desserts and so on) and Condiments & Sugar (sauces, vinegar, sugar, honey and the like, previously mixed into Oils & Fats, which now holds only cooking oils and butter). 177 rows had their category changed (for example sweet soups moved from Fruit to Desserts, lattes and milk teas from Dairy to Drinks, candied fruit from Fruit to Snacks). A later pass added a Soups & Stews category and moved 45 rows that are certainly soups or hot-pot/pot dishes into it (for example the rib and chicken soups, hu la tang, borscht and Korean army-stew hot pot) from Protein, Vegetables, Staples and Fast Food; sweet dessert soups stay in Desserts, soup noodles and rice-pot meals stay under Staples or Fast Food, and single hot-pot dipping items stay with their ingredient category. Categories are still a rough manual grouping, and a few items (such as some clay-pot braises still under Protein or Vegetables) may feel unintuitive. If you cannot find an item, search in the All category.
• Search matches only the characters or letters in the name. There is no pinyin initial search and no synonym matching: searching 番茄 will not also find 西红柿 unless the name contains that word.
• Food names are in Chinese only. In the English interface the category buttons are translated, but every row's food name stays in Chinese.
• The full table is rendered at once with no pagination, and there is no favorites feature, comparison view or gram-based calorie conversion.

Why do the numbers differ from the package label?

The table lists generic reference values for a type of food, while a package label describes one specific product and recipe. Two products both called biscuits or yogurt can contain very different amounts of sugar and fat. For packaged food, trust the label; this table works better for unlabeled ingredients and home cooking.

How do I tell raw and cooked apart?

Many names include markers for raw, cooked, boiled or steamed. Cooked rice absorbs water, so its calories per 100 g are far lower than those of uncooked rice, and raw and cooked meat differ in a similar way. Check the note in brackets and compare foods in the same state.

Can I add up what I ate in a day with it?

Roughly, yes, but you have to do the multiplication yourself: check whether the row is per 100 g or per serving, then scale to the amount you ate. The tool does not convert grams or add totals for you. To get a rough idea of how many calories you need per day, the Calorie Calculator on this site provides an estimate too.

What if I cannot find a food?

Try a shorter keyword, such as 牛肉 (beef) instead of a full dish name, and use a similar food as a stand-in. For items not in the table, check the package nutrition label or an official food composition database.

Privacy and processing

The table data loads with the page, and searching, filtering and sorting all happen on your device. The keywords you type are not sent to a server or saved.