Bagel Calories
No one can resist the warm smell of a fresh bagel. Lucky for us, the smell of bagels doesn’t have any bagel calories in it. Too bad taste does. Let’s see if you can still inlucde some bagels in your diet.
Let’s check out the good old fashion plain bagel calories (including onions, poppy or sesame):
- Mini bagel (0.8oz, 26gr, 2.5″ diameter) – 67 bagel calories
- Medium bagel (2.5oz, 71gr, 3.5″ diameter) – 182 bagel calories
- Large bagel (3.9oz, 4.5″ diameter) – 283 bagel calories
Now whether you are toasing the bagel or not doesn’t have a real effect on the bagel calories (maybe only a few calories). There is no real difference between a plain bagel calories and a toasted bagel calories since its only water are missing from the bagel.
However if your thinking about buttering you bagel that’s a completely different story and your bagel calories will add up! A pat of butter (5 gr, 1″ sqr) has 36 calories and almost all of it is fat. So you do the math according to how much butter you put of your bagel. Same goes for cream cheese: between 20-50 calories more to your bagel calories.
So next time you visit the bakery, take a big breath and enjoy that delicious bagel smell, but if you are on diet, remember those bagel calories values and choose your food wisely.
Numbers are from the USDA National Nutrient Database
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