Calories and protein in a bowl of chicken noodle soup, with and without butter
Also called chicken soup.
The short answer
1 bowl, about 300 g, normal butter
140 kcal
12 g protein
Fat 4 g · carbs 14 g · fibre 1 g · With meat or fish
Portion: a soup bowl. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
A big, warm bowl for few calories, with a fair amount of protein from the chicken.
With and without butter
The same 1 bowl, changing only the butter the vegetables start in. Normal is about 2.5 g in this portion. A little halves the recipe’s fat and a lot doubles it, so in a portion of the same weight a lot comes out a little under double. These are the four levels the app asks about, with the same numbers.
| Butter | Added | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 0 g | 130 kcal | 12 g |
| A little | 1 g | 130 kcal | 12 g |
| Normal | 2.5 g | 140 kcal | 12 g |
| A lot | 4.5 g | 160 kcal | 12 g |
What moves the number
- Egg noodlesabout 60 kcal
- Chickenabout 55 kcal
- Butter (the butter the vegetables start in)about 15 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 bowl, scaled from the batch recipe in the Homekcal app’s dish table, with normal butter. Water, salt and spices add almost no energy but are listed so the recipe is complete. If your version has more of something, the numbers move with it.
| Ingredient | Weight | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChickenUSDA: Chicken, broilers or fryers, meat only, raw | 45 g | 55 | 9.5 g |
| Egg noodlesUSDA: Noodles, egg, dry, enriched | 15 g | 60 | 2 g |
| CarrotUSDA: Carrots, raw | 15 g | 5 | 0 g |
| CeleryUSDA: Celery, raw | 12 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OnionUSDA: Onions, raw | 12 g | 5 | 0 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 225 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| ButterUSDA: Butter, saltedThe butter the vegetables start in | 2.5 g | 15 | 0 g |
How this was worked out
This is the same dish the Homekcal app logs, from the same table. Each raw ingredient’s weight is multiplied by its per-100 g values in USDA FoodData Central, the batch is added up and divided by the cooked weight it makes. Calories are rounded to the nearest 10 and grams to the nearest gram, because a standard recipe is not your recipe. These are calculated values, not weighed or lab tested meals, and home versions vary a lot.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2026. fdc.nal.usda.gov. Public domain (CC0).
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