Portion Sizes

Portion Size

To give a true picture of your daily food intake, it’s important to be as accurate as possible when entering portion sizes. Many foods have standard portion sizes, such as pots of yogurt or cereal bars, and these values will be completed automatically in your Tracker. Other foods have usual sizes – apples, for example, are normally around 110g and these figures will also be completed automatically. Foods which don’t come in standard sizes will be shown with 25g or 100g values and you can edit this weight depending on your own portion.

To begin with, you might wish to weigh everything you eat. This will help you compare your current servings to recommended portion sizes and it will also help you become familiar with your usual serving sizes so you can judge portions more accurately. Soon, you can gauge portions and you won’t need to continue weighing your food.

If you choose not to weigh your food, here are some usual portion sizes to use as a guide:

Food Item Size/Type Average Weight
1oz 25g
1fl oz 25ml
Teaspoon (tsp) 5g
Tablespoon (tbsp) 15g
Apple small - large 75g – 150g
Avocado Medium, edible portion 145g
Banana small - large 75g– 125g
Beans, lentils tbsp 40g
Bread Average slice 35g
Average slice, toasted 30g
Bagel 70g
Naan 160g
Pitta pocket 60g
Butter or margarine tsp 5g
Spread on slice of bread 10g
Cereal Small serving 25g
Average serving 30g
Large serving 50g
Cheese Average serving (matchbox size) 30g
Average in sandwich 40g
tbsp of grated hard cheese 10g
tbsp of cottage cheese 40g
tbsp of cream cheese 30g
tbsp of Parmesan cheese 15g
Coleslaw tbsp 45g
Cream Single, tbsp 15g
Double, tbsp 30g
Crispbread Ryvita etc. 10g
Egg Small - large 50g - 67g
Fish Average portion 125g
Fruit juice Small glass – large glass 100ml - 275ml
Ice cream Scoop 75g
Jam tsp 5g
Kiwi Medium, without skin 60g
Meat Average portion 75-100g
Milk Small glass – large glass 150ml - 300ml
In tea or coffee 30ml
In cereal 100ml
Oil tsp 3g
tbsp 11g
Olive Without stone 3g
Onion Medium 150g
Orange Medium, peeled 160g
Pasta Cooked 150g
Raw 40g
Peach Raw, without stone 110g
Plum Medium, without stone 55g
Potato Average potato 60g
Average new potato 40g
Baked, with skin 100g – 220g
Rice Cooked (around 3 heaped tbsp) 120g
Raw 40g
Tomato Medium 85g
Cherry tomato 15g
Vegetables Medium portion (3 tbsp) 85g
Yogurt Average pot 125g
tbsp 40g