How many calories are in cooking fat?

A typical portion (10 g, one tablespoon) gives 90 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 900 kcal.

It is a source of vitamin K: 0.0138 mg per 100 g, 18 % of the NRV, which passes the 15 % threshold for “source of” but not the 30 % needed for “high in”.

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin K (0.0138 mg, 18 %), vitamin A (0 mg, 0 %) and vitamin D (0 mg, 0 %) per 100 g.

This page uses 10 g, one tablespoon, the usual UK portion for fats and oils. Every “per portion” figure is the per-100 g value scaled to that weight.

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 12-501, Cooking fat, compound, not polyunsaturated, 6 analysed samples, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: DH, Nutrient analysis of a range of processed foods with particular reference to trans fatty acids, 2011. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a tablespoon is 10 g, one tablespoon, the usual UK portion for fats and oils. 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 19 fats and oils 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: Butter). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.