Mackerel: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Mackerel: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in mackerel?

In this article:

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

100g of mackerel has about 205 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | single piece | steak

Case in point, fillet (176 g) mackerel has about 361 calories.

It is about 15% 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 actualy is, take in mind that calories amount from fillet mackerel is similar to calories amount from ie.:

6.5 apples
4.5 glasses of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
3.5 slices of cheese
3 slices of bread
2.5 glasses of milk
19 cubes of sugar

For burning such amount of calories you need to bike at least 51 minutes, swim for about 43 minutes or run for 36 minutes.

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

Calories205kcal/100g(58 kcal/oz)

Protein18.6g/100g(5.3 g/oz)

Fat13.9g/100g(3.9 g/oz)

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

As I wrote before fillet (176 g) has 361 calories. It is easy to count that two mackerel have about 722 calories and three mackerel have about 1083 calories. In table below you can also see calories amount for four and five mackerel.

Fillet (176 g)361 kcal
Mackerel steak (176g)361 kcal
Ounce (oz) of mackerel58 kcal

Protein in mackerel

Mackerel has 18.6 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of fillet (176 g) you can see that you will get about 32.7 g of protein.

Carbs in mackerel

0 g of carbs - mackerel has no carbohydrates.

Fat in mackerel

Mackerel has 13.89 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that fillet (176 g) has about 24.4 g of fat.

fillet (176 g) has:

361kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike51 min.Bike

Horse ride66 min.Horse ride

Play tennis35 min.Tennis

Run36 min.Run

Swim43 min.Swim

mackerel - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A167 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.176 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.312 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)9.08 mg
Vitaminium B60.399 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.001 mcg
Vitaminium C0.4 mg
Vitaminium E1.52 mg
Vitaminium K0.005 mg

Energy content of mackerel

0% CARBS
37% PROTEIN
63% FAT

mackerel - minerals per 100g

Potassium314 mg
Phosphorus5 mg
Magnessium76 mg
Calcium12 mg
Sodium90 mg
Iron1.63 mg
Zink5 mg

Does mackerel cause weight gain? How it affects your diet?

Big number of calories in mackerel puts this product in a group of high calorific from fish category. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific fish, mackerel seems not to be a good choice. You can find something better among other fish.

This is a lot but you can also easily find more calorific products. More calories we can find in such fish as salmon or atlantic salmon.

You should consider that not only calories are important when you are on a diet. If mackerel contains nutrition you need than maybe you should add it to your daily menu anyway?

Interesting charts - compare mackerel with other fish

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

Vitamin C in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

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Magnesium in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Phosphorus in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Potassium in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Protein in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Sodium in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B1 in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B2 in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B6 in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Vitamin E in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Water in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Zinc in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Cholesterol in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

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Vitamin A in Mackerel Based On Fish Category

Author of this page
Marcin Piotrowicz

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