Breast Milk: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Breast milk: calories, protein, carbs and fat in 100g, ounce, tablespoon, teaspoon and more

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in breast milk?

In this article:

★ Calories
★ Nutrition
★ Calories per unit
★ Calories per ounce (oz)
★ Carbs
★ Fat
★ Protein

100g of breast milk has about 70 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | tablespoon | teaspoon | cup | half cup

Case in point, tablespoon of breast milk (10 g) has about 7 calories.

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To visualize how much it actually is, take in mind that calories amount from tablespoon breast milk is similar to calories amount from ie.:

less than half of sugar cube

To burn this calories you need to bike at least 1 minute, swim for about 1 minute or run for 1 minute.

Calories in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

See all nutrition data of breast milk on charts.

Breast milk: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories70kcal/100g(20 kcal/oz)

Protein1g/100g(0.3 g/oz)

Carbs Total6.9g/100g(2 g/oz)

Fat4.4g/100g(1.2 g/oz)

	per 100 g	per ounce
Calories	70	~ 19.8
Carbs Total	6.89 g	~ 2 g
Fat	4.38 g	~ 1.2 g
Protein	1.03 g	~ 0.3 g
Water	87.5 g	~ 24.8 g

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How many calories in tablespoon, teaspoon, cup or half cup of breast milk?

As I wrote before 100g has 70 calories. It is also easy to count how many calories will be in ie. tablespoon, teaspoon, cup or half cup of breast milk.

Tablespoon of breast milk (10g)7 kcal
Teaspoon of breast milk (5g)4 kcal
Cup of breast milk (245g)172 kcal
Half cup of breast milk (122.5g)86 kcal
Ounce (oz) of breast milk20 kcal
10g of breast milk7 kcal
20g of breast milk14 kcal
50g of breast milk35 kcal
100g of breast milk70 kcal

Protein in breast milk

Breast milk has 1.03 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of tablespoon of breast milk (10 g) you can see that you will get about 0.1 g of protein.

Carbs in breast milk

Breast milk has 6.89 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that tablespoon of breast milk (10 g) has about 0.7 g of carbs.

Fat in breast milk

Breast milk has 4.38 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that tablespoon of breast milk (10 g) has about 0.4 g of fat.

tablespoon of breast milk (10 g) has:

7kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike1 min.Bike

Horse ride1 min.Horse ride

Play tennis1 min.Tennis

Run1 min.Run

Swim1 min.Swim

breast milk - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A212 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.014 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.036 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)0.177 mg
Vitaminium B60.011 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.005 mcg
Vitaminium C5 mg
Vitaminium E0.08 mg

Energy content of breast milk

39% CARBS
6% PROTEIN
55% FAT

breast milk - minerals per 100g

Potassium51 mg
Phosphorus0.3 mg
Magnessium3 mg
Calcium32 mg
Sodium17 mg
Iron0.03 mg
Zink0.3 mg

Interesting charts - compare breast milk with other Other

When you look at charts below you will see how breast milk looks like in comparsion to other products from its category. When you click on selected product you will se detailed comparsion.

Vitamin C in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Fat in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Iron in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Magnesium in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Potassium in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Protein in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Sodium in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Sugar in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Vitamin B1 in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Vitamin B2 in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Vitamin B6 in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Vitamin E in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Water in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Carbohydrates in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Calories in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Calcium in Breast Milk Based On Other Category

Author of this page
Marcin Piotrowicz

calories-info.com creator
Healthy eating and living style promoter

All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.