How many calories in a muffin
A big bakery muffin has about 420 kcal, roughly what you'd get in a slice of cake.
Portion
To burn it off
A coffee shop muffin is 420 kcal, with 56 g of carbs, 19 g of fat and only 6 g of protein. It's sold as breakfast but it's built like cake.
The size is the thing. The ones on the counter next to the till have grown over the years, and the muffin top alone is a fair chunk of it.
Blueberry or bran sounds lighter than double chocolate, but the batter is the same sugar, flour and oil. The fruit doesn't change much.
Tips
- 1Eat half with your coffee and wrap the other half for the afternoon.
- 2Bake a tray at home in small cases, they come out a lot smaller.
- 3Have it as the treat, not as the breakfast, and eat something with protein first.
Where it comes from
The word muffin first shows up in English in 1703, spelled moofin, and probably comes from Low German muffen, small cakes. The original English muffin is a flat yeast bread baked on a griddle. The tall, cakey muffin from the coffee shop is the American version, a quick bread that rises with baking soda or baking powder instead of yeast.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Online Etymology Dictionary, muffin
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Questions
Is a blueberry muffin lower in calories?
Not much. It's the same batter as the chocolate one, with a few berries in it.
How many calories in half a muffin?
About 210 kcal for half a big bakery one.
Is a muffin a good breakfast?
It's cake for breakfast, which is fine now and then. It has little protein, so you'll likely be hungry again soon.
How many calories in an English muffin?
An English muffin is a flat bread roll, not a cake, and has about 130 kcal. That's less than a third of a big bakery muffin.
How many calories in a mini muffin?
A mini muffin from a pack is about 80 kcal, so five of them add up to one big bakery muffin.
