How many calories in a soft pretzel
A soft German pretzel has 250 kcal, almost all from carbs.
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A brezel is bread dough dipped in lye before baking. That's what gives it the dark shiny crust and the salty bite.
Plain it's 250 kcal and has hardly any fat. In Bavaria they slice it and spread it with butter, which takes it to 350.
At Oktoberfest it comes the size of your face, so count it as two.
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Where it comes from
Nobody knows exactly who twisted the first pretzel. A popular story says a medieval monk shaped leftover dough like a child's arms crossed in prayer, and the name may come from the Latin for arm. That story cannot be proven, but by the 12th century the knot was already the sign of bakers in southern Germany. The dip in lye that gives the shiny brown crust is a German habit.
Read the full story · Where does our food come from? · Source: Smithsonian Magazine, Pretzels for Oktoberfest
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Questions
How many calories in a butter pretzel?
About 350 kcal with the butter.
Is there fat in a pretzel?
Very little in a plain one, about 2 g. It's mostly bread.
Are pretzel snacks from a bag the same?
No, those are hard little ones, counted per handful. This page is the big soft bakery one.
Is a pretzel roll the same as a pretzel?
It's the same lye dough, just shaped as a roll, so bite for bite it's the same. A roll is usually smaller than a big bakery pretzel, so it comes in a bit under the 250.
Does picking off the salt change the calories?
No, salt has no calories, so a pretzel is 250 kcal with or without it. Picking it off only changes how salty it tastes.
