How many calories are in molasses?

A typical portion (30 g, a small bag or bar) gives 80 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 266 kcal.

Yes. Molasses has 1.5 mg manganese per 100 g, 77 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

By share of the daily reference intake: manganese (1.5 mg, 77 %), potassium (1460 mg, 73 %) and magnesium (240 mg, 64 %) per 100 g.

No. Salt is 0.09 g per 100 g, which is very low under UK rules.

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 17-059, Molasses, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: Ref. Cutrufelli and Pehrsson, 1991. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a serving is 30 g, a small bag or bar, the usual UK portion for sweets and snacks. 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 82 sweets and snacks 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: Chocolate Dark Candy). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.