Nutrition facts
Calories in honey
Sugar from the hive, denser than water, which is what fools the spoon: the volume lies, the weight does not.
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 teaspoon | 7 g | 23 kcal | 0 g | 5.7 g | 0 g | 0 g |
| One tablespoon | 21 g | 70 kcal | 0.1 g | 17.2 g | 0 g | 0 g |
Where these weights come from. Volume to mass: honey is clearly denser than water, so a teaspoon holds seven grams where it holds five grams of water.
Composition per 100 grams
Honey
- Energy
- 331 kcal
- Protein
- 0.7 g
- Carbohydrate
- 82.1 g
- of which sugars
- 81.1 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 4 mg
What a table of values does not say
- Honey is still a sugar, with a taste and a history: the hive does not change the nature of the spoonful.
- Wildflower, acacia or chestnut: the taste changes, the table barely moves.
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.
- Yogurt with honey and walnuts · 10 g per serving
- Greek yogurt with granola, blueberries and honey · 10 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 miel.