Nutrition facts
Calories in a carrot
Raw to bite into, grated as a starter, and in every winter stew of the catalog: the carrot is the most transversal food in this collection.
What a real portion weighs
The Anses table gives values per 100 grams, and 100 grams is not a portion anybody serves. Here are the same values, applied to the portions as they turn up. Weights are in grams, the unit the table is built on. For a quick conversion: 1 oz is about 28 g, and 1 lb is about 454 g.
| Portion | Weight | Energy | Protein | Carbs | Fat | Fiber |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One medium carrot · peeled | 125 g | 38 kcal | 1 g | 6.5 g | 0 g | 3.6 g |
| A serving of grated carrot | 80 g | 24 kcal | 0.6 g | 4.1 g | 0 g | 2.3 g |
| The Ciqual reference | 100 g | 30 kcal | 0.8 g | 5.2 g | 0 g | 2.9 g |
These weights are usual orders of magnitude, not standardized measures: they turn a per-100-gram value into a credible portion. A kitchen scale stays more accurate than any average weight.
Composition per 100 grams
Carrot, raw
- Energy
- 30 kcal
- Protein
- 0.8 g
- Carbohydrate
- 5.2 g
- of which sugars
- 4.9 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 2.9 g
- Sodium
- 49 mg
What a table of values does not say
- The carrot's natural sugar is there to taste but does not change where it sits: it stays a vegetable, not a candy.
- Cooked, it weighs about what it weighed raw, since it gives up little water: the raw-to-cooked conversion is no trap here, unlike the starches.
The Zemiam recipes that use it
These pages carry their calories and their macros, recalculated from the same table as this one. The weight given is that of the ingredient in one serving.
- Hard-boiled egg with carrots and hummus · 80 g per serving
- Homemade beef lasagna · 30 g per serving
- Spaghetti bolognese · 25 g per serving
- Minestrone · 60 g per serving
- Pot-au-feu beef and vegetable stew · 100 g per serving
- Beef bourguignon with potatoes · 80 g per serving
- Veal blanquette with rice · 80 g per serving
- Sausages with lentils · 60 g per serving
What comes after the number
How much to eat in a day
A portion means nothing without the day that holds it. A calorie need is worked out from height, weight, age and activity level, then split into protein, carbohydrate and fat.
Calorie calculatorWhere body build sits
Body mass index, the full WHO classification, and the weight range matching a normal build for a given height.
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An average weight is an estimate. A photo is not.
In Zemiam, a photo of the meal is enough to log the real portion, with the composition of this same table rather than a guessed figure.
Where the values come from
The composition comes from the Anses Ciqual table: Anses. 2025. Table de composition nutritionnelle des aliments Ciqual, published under Licence Ouverte 2.0. The per-100 g values are reproduced without being altered; the per-portion values are those same values multiplied by a weight, and that weight is not an Anses figure.
The same page in French: Calories de la carotte.