Tilapia (Fillet, Meat): Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Name: How many CALORIES in Tilapia (Fillet, Meat)? 3 things you should know
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Tilapia (fillet, meat): calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in tilapia?

In this article:

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

100g of tilapia has about 96 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | single piece | steak

To give you an idea, fillet (105 g) tilapia has about 101 calories.

It is about 4% 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 tilapia is similar to calories amount from ie.:

1.5 apples
1 glass of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
1 slice of cheese
0.5 slice of bread
0.5 glass of milk
5 cubes of sugar

To burn this calories you need to bike at least 14 minutes, swim for about 12 minutes or run for 10 minutes.

Tilapia (fillet, meat): calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories96kcal/100g(27 kcal/oz)

Protein20.1g/100g(5.7 g/oz)

Fat1.7g/100g(0.5 g/oz)

Check compares of tilapia with other products from fish category:

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

As I wrote before fillet (105 g) has 101 calories. It is easy to count that two tilapia have about 202 calories and three tilapia have about 303 calories. In table below you can also see calories amount for four and five tilapia.

Fillet (105 g)101 kcal
Tilapia steak (105g)101 kcal
Ounce (oz) of tilapia27 kcal

Protein in tilapia

Tilapia has 20.08 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of fillet (105 g) you can see that you will get about 21.1 g of protein.

Carbs in tilapia

0 g of carbs - tilapia has no carbohydrates.

Fat in tilapia

Tilapia has 1.7 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that fillet (105 g) has about 1.8 g of fat.

fillet (105 g) has:

101kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike14 min.Bike

Horse ride19 min.Horse ride

Play tennis10 min.Tennis

Run10 min.Run

Swim12 min.Swim

tilapia - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.041 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.063 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)3.903 mg
Vitaminium B60.162 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.024 mcg
Vitaminium E0.4 mg
Vitaminium K0.001 mg

Energy content of tilapia

0% CARBS
84% PROTEIN
16% FAT

tilapia - minerals per 100g

Potassium302 mg
Phosphorus1.4 mg
Magnessium27 mg
Calcium10 mg
Sodium52 mg
Iron0.56 mg
Zink1.4 mg

Does tilapia make you fat and how it affect your weight?

Low count of calories in tilapia puts this product in the middle of low-calories fish. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific fish, tilapia seems to be a pretty good choice.

This is not many but you can easily find less calorific products. It can be for example haddock or crayfish.

Interesting charts - compare tilapia with other fish

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

Fat in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Iron in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Magnesium in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Phosphorus in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Potassium in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Protein in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Sodium in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B1 in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B2 in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Vitamin B6 in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

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

Vitamin E in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Water in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Zinc in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Cholesterol in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Calories in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

Calcium in Tilapia Based On Fish Category

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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.