Food Calorie Lookup — 5,740 USDA Foods, Real Portions
Check calories the way you actually eat — 1 egg, 3 strips of bacon, a teaspoon of sugar. Protein, carbs and fat from FoodData Central. Free with a MyPlan account.
Look up the calories in any food
Type two letters and get the answer by the portion you actually use — 1 egg, 3 strips of bacon, a teaspoon of sugar. 5,740 USDA foods with protein, carbs and fat, one tap from your food log.
- 5,740
- USDA foods
- 95%
- with household portions
- 53
- browsable categories
- 1 tap
- logs it to your tracker
Search
Type it the way you say it
Search "egg" and the whole eggs come first — not the eggnog. Results are ranked so plain foods beat the products made from them, and every hit already shows its calories for a real household portion.
- Ranked results: "egg" finds Egg, whole, raw before Eggnog
- Every result priced by its default household portion
- Your recent foods wait as one-tap chips
Browse
Can't name it? Click through to it
The whole corpus is organized under USDA's own food groups — start at Milk, Eggs, or Grain Products and drill down to the exact food. Built for the moment you know what you ate but not what to type.
- Start from 10 food groups — USDA's own groupings
- 53 categories, every food listed with its calories
- The same foods the search sees: two doors, one corpus
Real portions
Calories for the portion you actually use
95% of foods carry household portions — 1 egg, 1 slice, 1 cup — with calories, protein, carbs and fat computed per portion. A quantity stepper handles "3 strips of bacon," and a per-100 g row keeps the label-readers covered.
Sourced, and it says so
Then log it
From answer to logged in one tap
Pick the meal, pick the date — today or any day you're back-filling — and one tap adds the food to your tracker. Foods with USDA food-pattern data even fill in your MyPlate plate wedges.
- Meal + date picker: back-fill any day, capped at today
- Logged foods count toward your calorie ring and plate
- "View in tracker" jumps straight to that day
Where it lives
Part of MyPlan, the free account
The food lookup sits on your MyPlan dashboard and under Meals in the menu, next to the tracker it feeds. The account is free — no credit card, and your email is your login.
Food lookup FAQ
How many calories are in an egg?
A whole boiled or poached egg is 72 calories. The lookup answers per household portion — for granulated sugar that's 15 calories per teaspoon — with protein, carbs and fat alongside.
Where does the nutrition data come from?
USDA FoodData Central: the Survey (FNDDS) release for everyday and restaurant foods, and Foundation Foods for lab-analyzed staples. Each food credits its release on its own screen.
Do I have to weigh my food in grams?
No — 95% of the 5,740 foods carry household portions like 1 egg, 1 slice, or 1 cup, and a quantity stepper scales them. Foods without a household measure fall back to 100 g.
Is the food lookup free?
Yes — it's part of MyPlan, the free MyPlate.food account. No credit card; your email is your login.
Can I log a food for a past day?
Yes. The date picker next to the meal selector logs to any past day — useful when you're filling a week in from notes — and "View in tracker" opens that day.
Are branded foods included?
The corpus is USDA generic foods, which cover home-cooked dishes and restaurant-style items. When a search matches one of MyPlate.food's branded product pages, those appear below the USDA results.