Chorizo: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Chorizo: calories, protein, carbs and fat in 100g, ounce, one chorizo, slice and more

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in chorizo?

In this article:

★ Calories
★ Nutrition
★ Calories in 1, 2, 3 or more...
★ Calories per ounce (oz)
★ Carbs
★ Fat
★ Protein

100g of chorizo has about 296 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | one chorizo | slice

To give you an idea, one link (70 g) chorizo has about 207 calories.

It is about 9% of daily calories intake for adult person with medium weight and medium activity (for calculation we assumed 2400 kcal daily intake).

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To visualize how much it actually is, take in mind that calories amount from one link chorizo is similar to calories amount from ie.:

3.5 apples
2.5 glasses of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
2 slices of cheese
1.5 slices of bread
1.5 glasses of milk
10.5 cubes of sugar

For burning such amount of calories you need to bike at least 30 minutes, swim for about 24 minutes or run for 21 minutes.

Calories in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

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Chorizo: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories296kcal/100g(84 kcal/oz)

Protein13.6g/100g(3.9 g/oz)

Carbs Total3.8g/100g(1.1 g/oz)

Fat25.1g/100g(7.1 g/oz)

	per 100 g	per ounce
Calories	296	~ 83.9
Carbs Total	3.78 g	~ 1.1 g
Fat	25.1 g	~ 7.1 g
Protein	13.63 g	~ 3.9 g
Water	54.77 g	~ 15.5 g

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How many calories in 1, 2, 3 or 5 chorizo?

As I wrote before one link (70 g) has 207 calories. It is easy to count that two chorizo have about 414 calories and three chorizo have about 621 calories. In table below you can also see calories amount for four and five chorizo.

One link (70 g)207 kcal
Slice of chorizo (10g)30 kcal
Ounce (oz) of chorizo84 kcal

Protein in chorizo

Chorizo has 13.63 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of one link (70 g) you can see that you will get about 9.5 g of protein.

Carbs in chorizo

Chorizo has 3.78 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that one link (70 g) has about 2.6 g of carbs.

Fat in chorizo

Chorizo has 25.1 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that one link (70 g) has about 17.6 g of fat.

one link (70 g) has:

207kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike30 min.Bike

Horse ride38 min.Horse ride

Play tennis20 min.Tennis

Run21 min.Run

Swim24 min.Swim

chorizo - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.207 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.31 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)5.47 mg
Vitaminium B60.313 mg
Vitaminium E0.22 mg

Energy content of chorizo

5% CARBS
18% PROTEIN
76% FAT

chorizo - minerals per 100g

Potassium308 mg
Phosphorus1.5 mg
Magnessium20 mg
Calcium19 mg
Sodium788 mg
Iron1.41 mg
Zink1.5 mg

Interesting charts - compare chorizo with other sausage

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

Fat in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Iron in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Magnesium in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Phosphorus in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Potassium in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Protein in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Sodium in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Vitamin B1 in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Vitamin B2 in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Vitamin B6 in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Vitamin E in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Water in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Zinc in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Cholesterol in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Carbohydrates in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Calories in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Calcium in Chorizo Based On Sausage Category

Author of this page
Marcin Piotrowicz

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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.