Calories and protein in a bowl of egg fried rice, with and without oil
Also called dan chao fan.
The short answer
1 bowl, about 250 g, normal oil
370 kcal
10 g protein
Fat 11 g · carbs 55 g · fibre 2.5 g · With egg
Portion: a home rice bowl. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Takeaway fried rice is often cooked with much more oil than a home wok. The oil level is the setting to change first.
With and without oil
The same 1 bowl, changing only the oil in the wok. Normal is about 8 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.
| Oil | Added | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 0 g | 310 kcal | 10 g |
| A little | 4 g | 340 kcal | 10 g |
| Normal | 8 g | 370 kcal | 10 g |
| A lot | 15 g | 420 kcal | 10 g |
What moves the number
- Riceabout 230 kcal
- Oil (the oil in the wok)about 70 kcal
- Eggabout 45 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 oil. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RiceUSDA: Rice, white, long-grain, regular, raw, enriched | 63 g | 230 | 4.5 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 119 g | 0 | 0 g |
| EggUSDA: Egg, whole, raw, fresh | 31 g | 45 | 4 g |
| PeasUSDA: Peas, green, raw | 16 g | 15 | 1 g |
| CarrotUSDA: Carrots, raw | 13 g | 5 | 0 g |
| Spring onionUSDA: Onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw | 6.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Soy sauceUSDA: Soy sauce made from soy and wheat (shoyu) | 6.5 g | 5 | 0.5 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 0.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OilUSDA: Oil, canolaThe oil in the wok | 8 g | 70 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Restaurant versions usually carry much more oil, ghee, butter or cream than this home recipe.
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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