Goose Fat Calories | Tablespoon & Saturated Fat

Goose Fat

12.8 g

Calculation basis: USDA04576 pure goose fat; source tablespoon12.8g. Not meat/skin mixture; millilitres are not grams.

Calculated from the 100 g values. — means unknown, not zero. ~ indicates an estimated serving weight.

115kcal

Carbohydrate0 g 0%

Protein0 g 0%

Fat12.8 g 100%

Goose Fat Nutrition Values

Nutrients	100 g	1 Reference tablespoon (12.8 g)
Calories(kcal)	900	115
Carbohydrate (g)	0	0
Protein (g)	0	0
Fat (g)	99.8	12.77
Fiber (g)	0	0
Cholesterol (mg)	100	12.8
Sodium (mg)	0	0
Potassium (mg)	0	0
Calcium (mg)	0	0
Iron (mg)	0	0
Vitamin A (µg RAE)	0	0
Vitamin C (mg)	0	0

Values are calculated from a 100 g basis. The product, recipe and serving amount can change the result. See the food-specific notes below for the reference used.

Goose fat: weighing the amount you cook with

Calories in a tablespoon of goose fat

Pure goose fat provides 900 kcal per 100 g. A weighed 5 g amount gives 45 kcal and 10 g gives 90 kcal. USDA's reference tablespoon weighs 12.8 g and supplies 115 kcal. Your spoon may hold a different mass; millilitres should not be entered as grams. Avocado oil has its own spoon weight too; compare fats at the same gram amount.^[1]

Dividing roasting fat between servings

If you add 20 g to a tray, eat all the added fat and divide the dish into four equal portions, each portion gets 5 g fat and 45 kcal from it. Count the vegetables separately. Fat left in the tray makes the consumed amount less certain; there is no universal absorption percentage to apply.

Goose meat, skin or drippings mixed with cooking juices do not have the same composition as pure fat. The distinction between turkey fat, meat and watery drippings matters for the same reason. Use the package label if a product contains salt or other ingredients. Follow its storage and cooking directions rather than relying on one supposed smoke point for all goose fat. The bacon-grease cooking calculation also explains how to avoid counting the same rendered fat twice. The raw veal fatty-tissue calculation includes water and other tissue components, so it cannot use the same energy value as pure fat.

Is goose fat a healthy fat?

The reference contains 27.7 g saturated fat, 56.7 g monounsaturated fat and 100 mg cholesterol per 100 g. A 12.8 g tablespoon therefore gives about 3.55 g saturated fat and 12.8 mg cholesterol. Monounsaturated fat does not cancel the saturated fat or make the serving unlimited.

For heart health, look at the overall fat pattern as well as cholesterol. Replacing some saturated fat with unsaturated sources such as olive oil is a more useful approach than treating goose fat as a remedy.^[2]

Does it help burn body fat on keto?

Having no carbohydrate does not mean eating it reduces body fat. The grams added to food still contribute energy. Neither extra goose fat nor doubling a workout is warranted by this nutrition table. The figures also do not demonstrate a treatment for a cough or another symptom.