Nutrition facts
Calories in ground beef
The most eaten cut of beef in France, weighed cooked the way it is eaten, and the whole business is in the percentage printed on the pack.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A supermarket patty · cooked weight | 100 g | 155 kcal | 25.5 g | 0 g | 5.9 g | 0 g |
| A butcher's patty · cooked weight | 125 g | 194 kcal | 31.9 g | 0 g | 7.3 g | 0 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
Beef, minced steak, 5% fat, cooked
- Energy
- 155 kcal
- Protein
- 25.5 g
- Carbohydrate
- 0 g
- of which sugars
- 0 g
- Fat
- 5.9 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 65 mg
Ground beef vs ground beef, 15% fat, cooked
The same name on the pack, a percentage apart. The gap measures exactly what the fat adds.
| Food | Energy | Protein | Carbs | Fat | Fiber |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground beef | 155 kcal | 25.5 g | 0 g | 5.9 g | 0 g |
| Ground beef, 15% fat, cooked | 239 kcal | 23.6 g | 0 g | 16.1 g | 0 g |
Weight for weight, the ground beef patty: 35% less energy.
What a table of values does not say
- The percentage on the label is the fat content: two patties under the same name can differ by a third in the pan, and that figure is the only line to read.
- Cooked, a patty loses water: the weight on the label is the raw one, and this page weighs what reaches the plate.
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.
- Beef patty with mashed potatoes and green beans · 120 g per serving
- Chili con carne · 100 g per serving
- Homemade burger with oven-roasted potatoes · 120 g per serving
- Homemade beef lasagna · 100 g per serving
- Spaghetti bolognese · 100 g per serving
- Beef and mashed potato bake with salad · 130 g per serving
- Beef patty with white beans and arugula · 130 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.
BMI calculatorNeighboring pages
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 steak haché.