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Top 50 Foods Highest in Energy (Calories)

Ranked by Energy (Calories) content per 100g edible portion. Data from USDA FoodData Central.

Energy (Calories): benefits, deficiency & absorption tips

#1 Highest

Fat, beef tallow

902 kcal

Foods ranked

50

with Energy (Calories) data

Complete Ranking — Energy (Calories) per 100g

# Food Energy (Calories) (kcal)
1 Fat, beef tallow 902
2 Lard vs #1 902
3 Fish oil, herring vs #1 902
4 Fish oil, menhaden vs #1 902
5 Fish oil, menhaden, fully hydrogenated vs #1 902
6 Fish oil, salmon vs #1 902
7 Fish oil, cod liver vs #1 902
8 Fish oil, sardine vs #1 902
9 Oil, whale, bowhead (Alaska Native) vs #1 900
10 Oil, walrus (Alaska Native) vs #1 900
11 Oil, beluga, whale (Alaska Native) vs #1 900
12 Oil, corn, industrial and retail, all purpose salad or cooking vs #1 900
13 Oil, industrial, canola, high oleic vs #1 900
14 Butter, Clarified butter (ghee) vs #1 900
15 Oil, industrial, soy, low linolenic vs #1 900
16 Shortening, household, lard and vegetable oil vs #1 900
17 Fat, chicken vs #1 900
18 Fat, turkey vs #1 900
19 Shortening industrial, lard and vegetable oil vs #1 900
20 Shortening frying (heavy duty), beef tallow and cottonseed vs #1 900
21 Fat, goose vs #1 900
22 Oil, bearded seal (Oogruk) (Alaska Native) vs #1 899
23 Pork, bacon, rendered fat, cooked vs #1 898
24 Animal fat, bacon grease vs #1 897
25 Oil, spotted seal (Alaska Native) vs #1 894
26 Oil, coconut vs #1 892
27 Oil, flaxseed, cold pressed vs #1 884
28 Oil, corn, peanut, and olive vs #1 884
29 Oil, corn and canola vs #1 884
30 Oil, rice bran vs #1 884
31 Shortening, household, soybean (partially hydrogenated)-cottonseed (partially hydrogenated) vs #1 884
32 Oil, soybean, salad or cooking, (partially hydrogenated) vs #1 884
33 Oil, wheat germ vs #1 884
34 Oil, palm vs #1 884
35 Oil, sesame, salad or cooking vs #1 884
36 Oil, sunflower, linoleic (less than 60%) vs #1 884
37 Oil, cottonseed, salad or cooking vs #1 884
38 Oil, walnut vs #1 884
39 Oil, sunflower, linoleic, (approx. 65%) vs #1 884
40 Oil, safflower, salad or cooking, linoleic, (over 70%) vs #1 884
41 Oil, safflower, salad or cooking, high oleic (primary safflower oil of commerce) vs #1 884
42 Oil, grapeseed vs #1 884
43 Oil, almond vs #1 884
44 Oil, apricot kernel vs #1 884
45 Oil, vegetable, Natreon canola, high stability, non trans, high oleic (70%) vs #1 884
46 Oil, peanut, salad or cooking vs #1 884
47 Oil, soybean, salad or cooking vs #1 884
48 Oil, olive, salad or cooking vs #1 884
49 Oil, teaseed vs #1 884
50 Oil, hazelnut vs #1 884

* All values per 100g edible portion. % Daily Values based on FDA 2020 (2,000 kcal diet). Rankings update automatically when USDA data is refreshed.