Calories in a Krispy Kreme: 225 kcal [45 Minutes of Walking]
An Original Glazed Krispy Kreme is 225 calories. A filled Biscoff is 425, near enough two of them. Across the UK range the calories in a Krispy Kreme run from 99 for a pair of bites up to 425 for a filled shell, and almost all of that spread comes down to weight rather than recipe.
You'd need to walk about 45 minutes to burn the 225 calories in an Original Glazed (50 g).
How long does it take to burn off a Krispy Kreme?
An Original Glazed (50 g) is 225 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
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| Activity | Time to burn 225 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 45 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 28 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 32 min |
| Jogging | 26 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 50 min |
Times are for a 154 lb (11 st) adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (50 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Krispy Kreme quick facts
- From bites to filled: the size ladder
- The full UK menu, doughnut by doughnut
- Why a Biscoff is almost two Original Glazed
- The dozen box, added up
- Krispy Kreme against the high street
- Most popular Krispy Kreme products in the United Kingdom
- FAQ
Krispy Kreme quick facts
The reference doughnut here is the Original Glazed, the ring the whole brand is built on, at 50 g.
| Nutrient | Per Original Glazed (50 g) | Per 100 g | RI%* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | 225 kcal / 939 kJ | 450 kcal / 1,877 kJ | 11% |
| Protein | 2.8 g | 5.5 g | 6% |
| Carbohydrate | 21 g | 43 g | 8% |
| – of which sugars | 11 g | 23 g | 12% |
| Fat | 14 g | 28 g | 20% |
| – of which saturates | 7.3 g | 15 g | 37% |
| Fibre | 1.4 g | 2.8 g | – |
| Salt | 0.22 g | 0.45 g | 4% |
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from CoFID, the UK government’s Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified August 2026. How we verify our data →
*RI% = one Original Glazed as a share of an adult's daily reference intake, based on 2,000 kcal.
Two rows do the work. The 11 g of sugar is the one people expect, and at 12% of the daily reference it is unremarkable for a sweet thing. The 7.3 g of saturates is the one nobody checks, and it is 37% of the day's saturated fat allowance from a single 50 g ring. Fried dough is fat first and sugar second, which is the opposite of how it tastes.
Salt is a non-issue at 0.22 g. Fibre is 1.4 g, which is real but incidental.
From bites to filled: the size ladder
Four sizes are on sale in the UK, and they line up almost perfectly by weight.
- Two Original Glazed Bites (22 g): 99 kcal
- Mini Original Glazed (25 g): 117 kcal
- Original Glazed (50 g): 225 kcal
- Biscoff, filled (91 g): 425 kcal
Read that ladder and the arithmetic is obvious once you see it. A Mini is half an Original Glazed. An Original Glazed is roughly half a Biscoff. Each step up the counter doubles what lands in your log, and the step happens because the doughnut gets bigger, not because it gets richer.
The Minis are the useful discovery for anyone counting. At 117 kcal a Mini Original Glazed costs about the same as a plain biscuit and still tastes like the real thing, because it is the real thing with less of it. The Mini Chocolate Sprinkles is 141 kcal and the Mini Strawberry Sprinkles 145.
Bites are sold as a pair. Two Original Glazed Bites are 99 kcal, two Rainbow Sprinkle Bites 114, two Milk Chocolate Sprinkle Bites 120, and two Choc and Salted Caramel Bites 150. If you want the taste rather than the doughnut, this is the cheapest way to buy it.
The full UK menu, doughnut by doughnut
Every item in the current UK nutrition book, with the per-100 g figure alongside so you can see how little it moves.
| Item | Weight | Calories | Per 100 g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Glazed | 50 g | 225 kcal | 450 |
| Vegan Original Glazed | 50 g | 225 kcal | 450 |
| Personalised Original Glazed | 52 g | 233 kcal | 448 |
| Chocolate Sprinkles | 63 g | 273 kcal | 433 |
| Biscoff | 91 g | 425 kcal | 467 |
| Nutty Chocolatta | 86 g | 412 kcal | 479 |
| Mini Original Glazed | 25 g | 117 kcal | 467 |
| Mini Chocolate Sprinkles | 32 g | 141 kcal | 446 |
| Mini Strawberry Sprinkles | 33 g | 145 kcal | 445 |
| Original Glazed Bites (2) | 22 g | 99 kcal | 449 |
| Rainbow Sprinkle Bites (2) | 27 g | 114 kcal | 419 |
| Milk Chocolate Sprinkle Bites (2) | 28 g | 120 kcal | 427 |
| Choc and Salted Caramel Bites (2) | 32 g | 150 kcal | 476 |
Look down the right-hand column. The entire menu sits between 419 and 479 kcal per 100 g, a band of 60 calories. Now look at the middle column: 99 to 425, more than a fourfold spread. Thirteen products, one recipe family, and the only variable that genuinely changes your day is how much of it you are holding.
The Vegan Original Glazed is worth calling out because the assumption runs the other way. It carries the same 225 kcal, the same 50 g, the same per-100 g figure as the standard ring. Swapping dairy out of the recipe did not make it lighter. It made it vegan.
The Personalised Original Glazed is the same doughnut with 2 g of decoration on it: 52 g, 233 kcal, 7.6 g of saturates against 7.3 g. Nice to know it costs eight calories to have your name piped on.
Why a Biscoff is almost two Original Glazed
This is the number that catches people, so it is worth pulling apart properly.
A Biscoff is 425 kcal. An Original Glazed is 225. That looks like a much heavier recipe, and it is not. Per 100 g the two are 467 and 450, a gap of 17 calories, which is about as close as two different products get. The Biscoff weighs 91 g against the ring's 50 g. You are eating 82% more doughnut, so you get 89% more calories. The recipe is barely involved.
Nutty Chocolatta works the same way. At 86 g and 479 kcal per 100 g it comes to 412 calories, and its 479 is the densest item on the menu, but only by 29 over the plain ring.
Where the filled ones do separate is saturated fat. A Biscoff carries around 11.8 g of saturates and a Nutty Chocolatta around 13.8 g, against 7.3 g in an Original Glazed. That is 59% and 69% of an adult's 20 g daily reference, in one doughnut, before anything else you eat that day. Sugar goes the other way and stays flat: roughly 19 g in a Biscoff, 11 g in a ring, both moderate against a 90 g reference.
So the honest summary of the filled range is that it costs you fat, not sugar, and it costs it because a filled shell is nearly twice the doughnut.
The dozen box, added up
Nobody buys one. The box is the product, and the box maths is where this page earns its keep.
| Box | Calories | Sugar | Saturates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half dozen Original Glazed | 1,350 kcal | 66 g | 43.8 g |
| Dozen Original Glazed | 2,700 kcal | 132 g | 87.6 g |
| Dozen Biscoff | 5,100 kcal | – | – |
A dozen Original Glazed is 2,700 calories, more than an adult's whole day. The saturates come to 87.6 g, four and a bit times the 20 g daily reference. The sugar, 132 g, is around one and a half times the 90 g figure the NHS guidance on sugar works from.
Split a dozen between four people and it is 675 calories each, which is a large lunch rather than a catastrophe. That is the realistic version, and it is the reason the box exists.
A dozen assorted with filled ones in it climbs fast. Twelve Biscoff would be 5,100 calories. No mixed box hits that, but it sets the ceiling.
Krispy Kreme against the high street
| Doughnut | Weight | Calories | Per 100 g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krispy Kreme Original Glazed | 50 g | 225 kcal | 450 |
| Greggs Glazed Ring Doughnut | 58 g | 201 kcal | 346 |
| Greggs Jam Doughnut | 76 g | 236 kcal | 311 |
| Supermarket iced ring, average | – | – | 413 |
| Jam doughnut, average | – | – | 321 |
Krispy Kreme is the densest glazed ring on the British high street at 450 kcal per 100 g, a full 104 above the Greggs equivalent and 37 above the average iced ring in the UK government's composition data. The glaze is thicker and the dough is richer, and the numbers say so plainly.
On the plate the picture softens, because Krispy Kreme's ring is the smallest of the three at 50 g. One Original Glazed at 225 kcal costs 24 calories more than a Greggs glazed ring and 11 fewer than a Greggs jam doughnut. Gram for gram it is the heaviest option; doughnut for doughnut it is squarely in the middle.
Our take: if you are having one thing out of the box, take the Original Glazed. It is half a Biscoff for the same twenty seconds of eating, and its saturates land at 37% of the day rather than 59%. If you want the flavour without the commitment, the Mini at 117 kcal or two Bites at 99 kcal do the job for the price of a biscuit. Save the filled range for when it is the point of the outing rather than something picked up on the way past.
For a lighter bakery habit, a croissant, a scone or a hot cross bun sit in different territory, and a chocolate chip cookie or a stack of pancakes are the closest sweet substitutes at home.
Most popular Krispy Kreme products in the United Kingdom
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United Kingdom, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each label. Figures are from the manufacturer’s own published nutrition table.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Krispy Kreme Original Glazed | 450 kcal |
| Krispy Kreme Chocolate Sprinkles | 433 kcal |
| Krispy Kreme Biscoff | 467 kcal |
| Krispy Kreme Nutty Chocolatta | 479 kcal |
| Krispy Kreme Mini Original Glazed | 467 kcal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels.
Krispy Kreme FAQs
How many calories in a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed?
225 kcal for one 50 g doughnut, which is 450 kcal per 100 g. It carries 14 g of fat, 7.3 g of it saturates, plus 11 g of sugar and 2.8 g of protein. That single ring uses 37% of an adult's daily saturated fat reference and 11% of the calorie reference.
How many calories in a box of Krispy Kreme?
A dozen Original Glazed is 2,700 kcal, with 132 g of sugar and 87.6 g of saturates. A half dozen is 1,350 kcal. Boxes with filled doughnuts in them run higher: twelve Biscoff would come to 5,100 kcal. Shared four ways, a standard dozen is 675 kcal each.
How many calories in a Krispy Kreme Biscoff?
425 kcal for the 91 g filled doughnut, at 467 kcal per 100 g. Only 17 calories per 100 g separate it from the Original Glazed, so the difference on the plate is size: it weighs almost twice as much. It brings around 11.8 g of saturates, 59% of the daily reference.
How many calories in a Krispy Kreme mini?
A Mini Original Glazed is 117 kcal for 25 g, almost exactly half a full-size ring. Mini Chocolate Sprinkles is 141 kcal at 32 g and Mini Strawberry Sprinkles 145 kcal at 33 g. Per 100 g the Minis are slightly denser than the full size, at 467 against 450, because there is more glazed surface per gram of dough.
How many calories in a vegan Krispy Kreme?
225 kcal, the same as the standard Original Glazed, from the same 50 g doughnut at 450 kcal per 100 g. The vegan version is not a lighter option, and the nutrition table lists it with identical figures. Choose it for the recipe, not for the calorie line.
Krispy Kreme or a Greggs doughnut?
A Greggs glazed ring is 201 kcal against 225 for a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed, so Greggs wins by 24 calories on the plate. Per 100 g it is not close: 346 for Greggs and 450 for Krispy Kreme. The Greggs ring is bigger and lighter at the same time, because it is less densely glazed.
How much sugar is in a Krispy Kreme?
11 g in an Original Glazed, which is 23 g per 100 g and 12% of the 90 g daily reference. A filled Biscoff carries around 19 g. Sugar is not the headline figure here: saturated fat is, at 7.3 g in the plain ring and roughly 11.8 g in a Biscoff.
How many calories in Krispy Kreme bites?
A serving is two bites. Original Glazed Bites are 99 kcal for 22 g, Rainbow Sprinkle Bites 114 kcal for 27 g, Milk Chocolate Sprinkle Bites 120 kcal for 28 g, and Choc and Salted Caramel Bites 150 kcal for 32 g. Per 100 g they land between 419 and 476, the same range as everything else on the menu.
Similar foods
- Flapjack — 260 kcal a slice
- Cupcake — 470 kcal per 100 g frosted
- Chocolate chip cookie — 52 kcal small biscuit
- Doughnut — 413 kcal per 100 g iced ring
- Greggs Yum Yum — 310 kcal each
- Brownie — ~304 kcal per square
Log the box, not the guess
Photograph what is actually in front of you and BodyPal counts the ring, the filling and the sprinkles, calories and saturates included.
