Calories in Red Leicester cheese: 403 kcal

Q: How many calories are in a portion of Red Leicester cheese?

A typical portion (30 g, a piece of cheese) gives 121 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 403 kcal.

Q: Is Red Leicester cheese high in chloride?

Yes. Cheese, Red Leicester has 961 mg chloride per 100 g, 120 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

Q: Which vitamins and minerals does Red Leicester cheese have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: chloride (961 mg, 120 %), calcium (723 mg, 90 %) and phosphorus (495 mg, 71 %) per 100 g.

Q: Is Red Leicester cheese a good source of protein?

Cheese, Red Leicester has 25 g protein per 100 g, 25 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “high protein”.

What’s in a 30 g piece

About a third of a piece is water. The rest is 10.1 g fat and 7.5 g protein.

10.1 gFat

7.5 gProtein

0.03 gCarbohydrate

11.3 gWater

1.1 gMinerals and the rest

10.1 gFat
7.5 gProtein
0.03 gCarbohydrate
11.3 gWater
1.1 gMinerals and the rest

Above average for dairy

Red Leicester cheese is 403 kcal per 100 g. The 99 dairy in this database average 224.

Red Leicester cheese403

Dairy average224

High in salt

1.7 g of salt per 100 g, which is red on a UK traffic-light label (the line is 1.5 g).

Salt, per piece0.5 g

Sugars, per piece0.03 g

Vitamins and minerals in Red Leicester cheese

Nine of the 22 recorded reach the “high in” level. Calcium leads by a long way.

27 %

Calcium

217 mg in a 30 g piece

11th of 98 dairy

Calcium is needed for the maintenance of normal bones and teeth, and contributes to normal muscle function.

Chloride288 mg36 %

Phosphorus149 mg21 %

Vitamin B120.00036 mg14 %

Vitamin A0.102 mg13 %

Zinc1.2 mg12 %

Also high in

A source of

Only a trace

Vitamin C

Show all 22 with amounts

Chloride288 mg, 36 %

Calcium217 mg, 27 %

Phosphorus149 mg, 21 %

Vitamin B120.00036 mg, 14 %

Vitamin A0.102 mg, 13 %

Zinc1.2 mg, 12 %

Niacin (vitamin B3)1.7 mg, 11 %

Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.13 mg, 9.4 %

Iodine0.0138 mg, 9.2 %

Selenium0.0033 mg, 6 %

Folate0.009 mg, 4.5 %

Vitamin B60.03 mg, 2.4 %

Magnesium8.7 mg, 2.3 %

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.11 mg, 1.9 %

Vitamin D0.00009 mg, 1.8 %

Biotin0.0009 mg, 1.8 %

Copper0.02 mg, 1.5 %

Potassium22.8 mg, 1.1 %

Vitamin E0.11 mg, 1 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.01 mg, 0.8 %

Iron0.09 mg, 0.6 %

Manganese0.01 mg, <1 %

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 Red Leicester cheese doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

No recorded vitamin C, and only 2.1 % of the iron reference intake and 2.7 % of the thiamin reference intake per 100 g.

Vitamin C

Tracein Red Leicester cheese

Find it inCherries, West Indian2150 % per 100 g

Iron

2.1%in Red Leicester cheese, per 100 g

Find it inThyme, dried, ground883 % per 100 g

Thiamin (vitamin B1)

2.7%in Red Leicester cheese, per 100 g

Find it inWheatgerm164 % per 100 g

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Red Leicester cheese against other dairy

Per 100 g, milk (skimmed, dried, fortified) has the most calcium in this comparison, followed by cheese (Emmental) and Red Leicester cheese.

1280mg

1025mg

723mg

498mg

290mg

160mg

Milk, skimmed, dried, fortified+557 mg

Cheese, Emmental+302 mg

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Cheese spread, plain−225 mg

Milk, evaporated, whole−433 mg

Yogurt, virtually fat free/diet, plain−563 mg

All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against Red Leicester cheese.

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Questions about Red Leicester cheese

What the numbers say to the questions people actually search.

How many calories are in a portion of Red Leicester cheese?

A typical portion (30 g, a piece of cheese) gives 121 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 403 kcal.

Is Red Leicester cheese high in chloride?

Yes. Cheese, Red Leicester has 961 mg chloride per 100 g, 120 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

Which vitamins and minerals does Red Leicester cheese have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: chloride (961 mg, 120 %), calcium (723 mg, 90 %) and phosphorus (495 mg, 71 %) per 100 g.

Is Red Leicester cheese a good source of protein?

Cheese, Red Leicester has 25 g protein per 100 g, 25 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “high protein”.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 12-485, Cheese, Red Leicester, 10 analysed samples, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: LGC, Nutrient analysis of cheese, 1999. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a piece is 30 g, a piece of cheese, the usual UK portion for dairy. 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 99 dairy 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: Blue Cheese). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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How many calories are in Red Leicester cheese?

What’s in a 30 g piece

Above average for dairy

High in salt

Vitamins and minerals in Red Leicester cheese

Calcium

Also high in

A source of

Only a trace

What Red Leicester cheese doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

Vitamin C

Iron

Thiamin (vitamin B1)

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