How many calories in a chocolate bar
A standard chocolate bar has about 230 kcal, mostly from sugar and fat.
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To burn it off
A chocolate bar is mostly sugar with chocolate and whatever's inside, like caramel, nougat or biscuit. One has 35 g of carbs, 9 g of fat and 2 g of protein.
It's the classic meal deal swap and the 3pm pick me up. Two a day is about 460 kcal, which is more than a decent lunch.
Sharing bars, king size and the big multipacks are a different number again. Check the size on the wrapper.
Tips
- 1Go for a fun size or a two finger bar when you just want the taste.
- 2Eat it slowly with a cup of tea instead of at your desk without noticing.
- 3Keep the multipack somewhere you have to go and get it.
Where it comes from
For most of its history chocolate was a drink. In 1847 the Fry family firm in Bristol, England, combined cocoa butter with ground cocoa and sugar to make sweet chocolate you could eat, usually counted as the first chocolate bar. Milk chocolate came nearly 30 years later, when Daniel Peter in Switzerland worked out how to add milk in 1876.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fry and Sons
Just type it
a chocolate bar
In Caltype you type what you ate like a note to yourself, and it's counted for you. No weighing, no scrolling through a database.
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Questions
How many calories in two chocolate bars?
About 460 kcal.
Is dark chocolate lower in calories?
Not really. Dark chocolate has less sugar but more fat, so it ends up in a similar range.
How do I log a specific bar?
Type its name, like you'd say it at the till, and Caltype finds it.
Is there caffeine in a chocolate bar?
A little, from the cocoa. A milk chocolate bar has under 10 mg, against about 95 mg in a mug of filter coffee.
Why has my chocolate bar gone white?
That's bloom, sugar or cocoa butter coming to the surface after the bar got warm or damp. It's safe to eat and the count doesn't change.
Did you know?
Laughing for 10 to 15 minutes burns about 10 to 40 kcal. To laugh off a single chocolate bar, you would need about an hour.
Facts about sport and exercise · Source: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
