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How many calories are in white sauce?

21.9kcal

in a 15 g tablespoon

146 kcal per 100 g.

Source: UK CoFID 2021, record 17-841. Checked 5 October 2026.

1 gFat

0.6 gProtein

0.05 gFibre

4.8 %Daily vitamin B12

Chicken Broth Soup, the nearest illustration to White sauce, sweet, made with semi-skimmed milk, homemade

What’s in a 15 g tablespoon

More than half of a tablespoon is water, which is why the calories stay low. What is left is mostly carbohydrate.

  • 1 gFat
  • 0.6 gProtein
  • 2.8 gCarbohydrate
  • 0.05 gFibre
  • 10.6 gWater

About average for sauces, soups and condiments

White sauce is 146 kcal per 100 g. The 92 sauces, soups and condiments in this database average 154.

White sauce146
Sauces, soups and condiments average154

Protein and fibre in a tablespoon

0.6 g of protein and 0.05 g of fibre, neither at a claim threshold.

Protein, per tablespoon0.6 g
Fibre, per tablespoon0.05 g

Vitamins and minerals in white sauce

One of the 19 reach the “high in” level: vitamin B12.

4.8 %

Vitamin B12

0.00012 mg in a 15 g tablespoon

5th of 65 sauces, soups and condiments

Vitamin B12 contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism, to the normal function of the immune system and to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.

Chloride25.2 mg3.2 %
Calcium18.9 mg2.4 %
Phosphorus15.2 mg2.2 %
Show all 19 with amounts
Vitamin B120.00012 mg, 4.8 %
Chloride25.2 mg, 3.2 %
Calcium18.9 mg, 2.4 %
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.03 mg, 2.4 %
Phosphorus15.2 mg, 2.2 %
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.09 mg, 1.4 %
Potassium25.1 mg, 1.3 %
Niacin (vitamin B3)0.15 mg, 0.9 %
Biotin0.00045 mg, 0.9 %
Zinc0.08 mg, 0.8 %
Vitamin B60.01 mg, 0.6 %
Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.01 mg, 0.5 %
Magnesium1.8 mg, <1 %
Folate0.00075 mg, <1 %
Manganese0.01 mg, <1 %
Copper0 mg, <1 %
Selenium0.00015 mg, <1 %
Vitamin C0.15 mg, <1 %
Iron0.03 mg, <1 %

Badges use the UK legal thresholds per 100 g: 15 % of the reference intake for “source of”, 30 % for “high in”.

What white sauce doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

Only 1.3 % of the vitamin C reference intake, 1.8 % of the selenium reference intake and 1.2 % of the iron reference intake per 100 g.

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White sauce against other sauces, soups and condiments

Per 100 g, white sauce has the most vitamin B12 of the 6 here, ahead of soup (goulash).

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Soup, goulash−0.0002 mg
Scotch broth−0.0004 mg
Mayonnaise−0.0005 mg
Dressing, yogurt−0.0006 mg
Soup, potato and leek−0.0006 mg

All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against white sauce.

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Questions about white sauce

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

How many calories are in a portion of white sauce?
A typical portion (15 g, one tablespoon) gives 22 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 146 kcal.
Is white sauce high in vitamin B12?
Yes. White sauce, sweet, made with semi-skimmed milk, homemade has 0.0008 mg vitamin B12 per 100 g, 32 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.
Are these figures exact for white sauce?
No. They are calculated from a standard recipe in the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID, 2021). A different recipe, portion of sauce or cooking method will move them, so read them as a typical estimate.
Which vitamins and minerals does white sauce have most of?
By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin B12 (0.0008 mg, 32 %), chloride (168 mg, 21 %) and calcium (126 mg, 16 %) per 100 g.
How these numbers were made
Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 17-841, White sauce, sweet, made with semi-skimmed milk, homemade, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0; this record is a calculated recipe estimate. Main data references: Updated 2014. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a tablespoon is 15 g, one tablespoon, the usual UK portion for sauces, soups and condiments. 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 92 sauces, soups and condiments kept from the dataset; a rank counts only the foods with a measured figure for that nutrient. Merged variant: made with skimmed milk: 134 kcal, 5.3 g fat, 1.81 g saturates; made with whole milk: 163 kcal, 8.6 g fat, 3.94 g saturates. 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: Chicken Broth Soup). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nutrition

White sauce, sweet, made with semi-skimmed milk, homemade

Calories21.9 kcal
Fat
1 g
of which saturates
0.41 g
Carbohydrate
2.8 g
of which sugars
2 g
of which starch
0.83 g
Fibre
0.05 g
Protein
0.6 g
Salt
0.03 g

Vitamins and minerals

Vitamin B12
0.00012 mg
Chloride
25.2 mg
Calcium
18.9 mg
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
0.03 mg

92.3 kJ per tablespoon. Values for the edible portion. Source: UK CoFID 2021.

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