Calories in fruit cake: 355 kcal per 100 g

What’s in a 60 g slice

More than half of a slice is carbohydrate, 35.3 g of it sugars and 4.9 g starch.

5.8 gFat

2.2 gProtein

40.2 gCarbohydrate

0.78 gFibre

9.1 gWater

2 gMinerals and the rest

5.8 gFat
2.2 gProtein
40.2 gCarbohydrate
0.78 gFibre
9.1 gWater
2 gMinerals and the rest

About average for cakes, biscuits and pastries

Fruit cake is 355 kcal per 100 g. The 134 cakes, biscuits and pastries in this database average 394.

Fruit cake355

Cakes, biscuits and pastries average394

High in sugar

58.9 g of sugars per 100 g, which is red on a UK traffic-light label (the line is 22.5 g).

Sugars, per slice35.3 g

Salt, per slice0.15 g

Vitamins and minerals in fruit cake

Three of the 21 reach the “source of” level, copper first; none reaches “high in”.

13 %

Copper

0.13 mg in a 60 g slice

38th of 124 cakes, biscuits and pastries

Copper contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism, to the normal function of the immune system and to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

Potassium211 mg11 %

Chloride79.8 mg10 %

Manganese0.17 mg8.4 %

Vitamin B120.00018 mg7.2 %

Vitamin A0.0564 mg7.1 %

Only a trace

Vitamin C

Show all 21 with amounts

Copper0.13 mg, 13 %

Potassium211 mg, 11 %

Chloride79.8 mg, 10 %

Manganese0.17 mg, 8.4 %

Vitamin B120.00018 mg, 7.2 %

Vitamin A0.0564 mg, 7.1 %

Biotin0.00336 mg, 6.7 %

Iron0.94 mg, 6.7 %

Vitamin E0.77 mg, 6.4 %

Phosphorus43.8 mg, 6.3 %

Vitamin D0.00024 mg, 4.8 %

Calcium36.6 mg, 4.6 %

Niacin (vitamin B3)0.72 mg, 4.5 %

Magnesium16.2 mg, 4.3 %

Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.06 mg, 4.3 %

Vitamin B60.05 mg, 3.4 %

Selenium0.0018 mg, 3.3 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.04 mg, 3.3 %

Folate0.006 mg, 3 %

Zinc0.3 mg, 3 %

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.1 mg, 1.6 %

Badges use the UK legal thresholds per 100 g: 15 % of the reference intake for “source of”, 30 % for “high in”. A trace is shown as “trace” and never counts.

What fruit cake doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

No recorded vitamin C, and only 2.7 % of the pantothenic acid reference intake and 5 % of the folate reference intake per 100 g.

Vitamin C

Tracein fruit cake

Find it inCherries, West Indian2150 % per 100 g

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)

2.7%in fruit cake, per 100 g

Find it inLiver, calf, raw140 % per 100 g

Folate

5%in fruit cake, per 100 g

Find it inLiver, chicken, fried675 % per 100 g

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Fruit cake against other cakes, biscuits and pastries

Per 100 g, cake (chocolate, not filled) has the most copper in this comparison, followed by oatcakes (plain, retail) and fruit cake.

0.4mg

0.2mg

0.1mg

Cake, chocolate, not filled+0.2 mg

Oatcakes, plain, retail+0.1 mg

Cake, fruit, rich, iced, homemadethis page

Scones, fruit, retail0 mg

Biscuits, plain, reduced fat−0 mg

Pastry, choux, cooked−0.1 mg

All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against fruit cake.

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Questions about fruit cake

Four questions chosen by the facts above, so every food answers differently.

How many calories are in a portion of fruit cake?

A typical portion (60 g, a slice) gives 213 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 355 kcal.

Is fruit cake a source of copper?

It is a source of copper: 0.22 mg per 100 g, 22 % of the NRV, which passes the 15 % threshold for “source of” but not the 30 % needed for “high in”.

Which vitamins and minerals does fruit cake have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: copper (0.22 mg, 22 %), potassium (351 mg, 18 %) and chloride (133 mg, 17 %) per 100 g.

Is fruit cake high in salt?

No. Salt is 0.25 g per 100 g, which is low under UK rules.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 11-991, Cake, fruit, rich, iced, homemade, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: Recalculated in 2013. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a slice is 60 g, a slice, the usual UK portion for cakes, biscuits and pastries. Reference intakes follow Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 Annex XIII as retained in GB law; “source of”, “high in” and “low” follow Regulation (EC) 1924/2006, assessed per 100 g. Function lines are the authorised wording from the GB register of nutrition and health claims, credited to the nutrient. Energy is rounded to the whole kcal and kJ; other amounts to one decimal, or two below 1. A trace is shown as “trace” and never gets a figure or a badge; a nutrient never analysed is left off the page. We start from the dataset’s 2,887 records and keep 2,322: records weighed with bone, shell or skin, alcoholic drinks, infant foods, brand-named products, records with fewer than eight measured vitamins and minerals and near-identical variants are left out. Group context uses the 134 cakes, biscuits and pastries kept from the dataset; a rank counts only the foods with a measured figure for that nutrient. Food images are illustrations from Ingredient Atlas, released under CC0; they show the food, not the measured sample, and where no illustration of the exact food exists the nearest one is shown (here: Milk Snack Cakes). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.