Calories and protein in a bowl of mapo tofu, with and without oil
Also called mapo doufu.
The short answer
1 bowl, about 250 g, normal oil
410 kcal
32 g protein
Fat 29 g · carbs 12 g · fibre 4.5 g · With meat or fish
Portion: a serving bowl, without rice. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Tofu brings most of the protein. The red oil on top is the part a photo sees least clearly.
With and without oil
The same 1 bowl, changing only the chilli oil and cooking oil. Normal is about 8.5 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.
| Oil | Added | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 0 g | 350 kcal | 33 g |
| A little | 4.5 g | 380 kcal | 33 g |
| Normal | 8.5 g | 410 kcal | 32 g |
| A lot | 17 g | 470 kcal | 31 g |
What moves the number
- Tofuabout 200 kcal
- Pork minceabout 90 kcal
- Oil (the chilli oil and cooking oil)about 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TofuUSDA: Tofu, raw, firm, prepared with calcium sulfate | 139 g | 200 | 24 g |
| Pork minceUSDA: Pork, fresh, ground, raw | 35 g | 90 | 6 g |
| MisoUSDA: Miso | 8.5 g | 15 | 1 g |
| Chilli powderUSDA: Spices, pepper, red or cayenne | 1.5 g | 5 | 0 g |
| Soy sauceUSDA: Soy sauce made from soy and wheat (shoyu) | 3.5 g | 0 | 0.5 g |
| GarlicUSDA: Garlic, raw | 3 g | 5 | 0 g |
| GingerUSDA: Ginger root, raw | 3 g | 0 | 0 g |
| CornstarchUSDA: Cornstarch | 3 g | 10 | 0 g |
| Spring onionUSDA: Onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw | 7 g | 0 | 0 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 52 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OilUSDA: Oil, canolaThe chilli oil and cooking oil | 8.5 g | 75 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Doubanjiang (chilli bean paste) is calculated as miso plus chilli.
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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