Nutrition facts
Calories in a croque-monsieur
The hot sandwich of brasseries and of the catalog: bread, ham, cheese, butter, it is all in the name, and the butter is what makes it a brasserie.
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 croque-monsieur | 150 g | – | 21.5 g | – | 27.6 g | – |
| With an egg, as a madame | 200 g | – | 28.6 g | – | 36.8 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
Toasted ham and cheese sandwich, w butter, homemade
- Energy
- –
- Protein
- 14.3 g
- Carbohydrate
- –
- of which sugars
- –
- Fat
- 18.4 g
- Fiber
- –
- Sodium
- 686 mg
What a table of values does not say
- A shop-bought croque and the one in the catalog differ mostly in butter: a brasserie griddle is not light-handed.
- The madame adds a fried egg on top: the change of name is also a change of portion.
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.
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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 du croque-monsieur.