How Many Calories in a Slice of Angel Food Cake?
A plain slice of angel food cake weighs 60 g and carries 154 calories. Per 100 g the cake runs 257 calories, almost all of it flour and sugar. Fat is essentially absent at 0.3 g per 100 g, which is why this cake reads so much lighter than the frosted stuff next to it in the bakery case.
You'd need to walk about 31 minutes to burn the 154 calories in one slice (60 g).
How long does it take to burn off 154 kcal of angel food cake?
One slice (60 g) is 154 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 154 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 31 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 19 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 22 min |
| Jogging | 18 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 34 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (60 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Angel food cake quick facts
- US servings, from one ounce to two slices
- Sugar-free, store slices and a cup of pieces
- Sodium is the row to watch, not fat
- How does angel food cake compare?
- Most popular angel food cake brands
- Angel food cake FAQs
Angel food cake quick facts
The row used here is FNDDS 2707854, "Cake, angel food" from the 2021–2023 USDA survey data. It describes exactly what most people are holding: a piece of plain angel food cake with no glaze, no frosting and nothing spooned over it. Store-bakery cakes and sugar-free cakes are versions of the same food rather than a different one, so they sit further down the page as variants instead of replacing the base number.
USDA lists the household portion for this record as one piece or slice of any size at 60 g. That is the column below.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 slice (60 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 257 | 154 | — |
| Total fat | 0.3 g | 0.2 g | 0% |
| Saturated fat | 0.04 g | 0.0 g | 0% |
| Carbohydrate | 58.7 g | 35.2 g | 13% |
| Dietary fiber | 0.2 g | 0.1 g | 0% |
| Total sugars | 30.51 g | 18.3 g | — |
| Protein | 6.1 g | 3.7 g | 7% |
| Sodium | 511 mg | 307 mg | 13% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
Two label rows are missing on purpose. Added sugars and trans fat are not published for this FNDDS record, so they are left out rather than guessed at. Cholesterol is a flat 0 mg, since there is no yolk, no butter and no cream in the batter; potassium comes to 81 mg per slice, about 2% of the Daily Value.
The shape of this food is unusual for a dessert. Carbohydrate carries 35.2 g of the 60 g slice, and 18.3 g of that is sugar. Everything else in the slice is a rounding error apart from protein, which comes from the egg whites the whole cake is built on.
US servings, from one ounce to two slices
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28 g | 73 kcal |
| 1 cup, pieces | 50 g | 129 kcal |
| One slice | 60 g | 154 kcal |
| Two slices | 120 g | 308 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 257 kcal |
The slice and the cup are both USDA household measures for this record. The ounce and the two-slice line are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not USDA servings.
Here is the trap. A cup of torn angel food cake weighs 50 g, less than a single 60 g slice, because the pieces are mostly air and they do not pack. So the cup logs at 129 calories and the slice at 154 — the measure that sounds bigger is the smaller one. With a dense cake, a cup would be the heavier entry by a wide margin. Log the slice if you cut a slice, and the cup only if you actually tore the cake into a measuring cup.
The ounce is worth memorizing too: 73 calories, so roughly 2.1 oz gets you to the standard slice. Bakery slices cut at home are rarely uniform, and a generous wedge off a tube cake can easily run 80–90 g, or 206–231 calories using the same per-gram number.
Sugar-free, store slices and a cup of pieces
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical piece | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| USDA plain angel food cake | 257 kcal | 1 slice, 60 g | 154 kcal |
| Sugar-free, Hill & Valley | 137 kcal | 1/5 cake, 51 g | 70 kcal |
| Light store slice, Arnie's | 193 kcal | 1 slice, 57 g | 110 kcal |
| Store-bakery slice, Whole Foods Market | 246 kcal | 1 slice, 57 g | 140 kcal |
| Tube-cake slice, Kroger | 304 kcal | 1/8 cake, 46 g | 140 kcal |
| Angel food cake, cup of pieces | 257 kcal | 1 cup, 50 g | 129 kcal |
Packaged angel food cake is far less standardized than the single USDA row suggests. Across the six national and regional brands in the USDA Branded database, per-100-g values spread from 137 to 304 — more than a twofold gap — even though three of the six labels call the portion "1 slice, about 57 g." Three of those labels land on the same 140 calories per slice from two very different densities, because the heavier cake is cut thinner. Lewis Bake Shop matches Whole Foods at 246 per 100 g and 140 per slice, and Ukrop's comes in at 245 with a 49 g eighth of a cake at 120 calories.
The sugar-free version is the real outlier: 137 calories per 100 g, and 70 for the 51 g portion the label calls one fifth of a cake. That is under half the plain slice, but it is also a smaller piece of a smaller cake, so about a quarter of the saving comes from the portion rather than the recipe. Cup for cup, it is still the lightest angel food cake in the USDA data by a wide margin.
Sodium is the row to watch, not fat
Angel food cake is the rare dessert where the fat row is a non-event. A slice has 0.2 g of total fat and 0.0 g of saturated fat — 0% of the Daily Value on both, against the FDA reference values of 78 g and 20 g. Cholesterol is zero. There is no other common cake you can say that about.
Sodium is a different story. One slice delivers 307 mg, or 13% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value, which is about an eighth of a teaspoon of table salt sitting inside a dessert. Cream of tartar and salt in the egg-white foam do the work, and they do not taste salty, so nobody budgets for them. Eat two slices and you are at 26% of the day's sodium before dinner. If you are tracking sodium, that is a number worth knowing, and it happens to match the carbohydrate percentage exactly — 13% for both.
Protein is the pleasant surprise on the other side: 3.7 g per slice, 7% of the Daily Value, from egg whites alone. It will not carry a meal, but it is more than a comparable slice of most butter cakes provides. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans leave room for a small amount of added sugar inside a calorie budget, and a 154-calorie slice fits that far more easily than a 400-calorie frosted wedge does. Pairing it with fruit, as MyPlate suggests for dessert, adds volume without adding fat.
How does angel food cake compare?
| Cake | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel food cake | 257 kcal | 1 slice, 60 g | 154 kcal |
| Boston cream pie | 252 kcal | 1 slice, 60 g | 151 kcal |
| Tres leches cake | 270 kcal | 1 slice, 60 g | 162 kcal |
| Pineapple upside-down cake | 273 kcal | 1 slice, 60 g | 164 kcal |
The 60 g slices for the three comparison cakes are our own arithmetic from their USDA 100 g figures, not USDA servings, so the four rows are directly comparable.
Our take: gram for gram, angel food cake is not the light one. At 257 calories per 100 g it sits mid-pack, above Boston cream pie and only about 6% below pineapple upside-down cake. What actually makes it the better everyday choice is the composition, not the calorie density — 0.3 g of fat per 100 g and no cholesterol against 8.5 to 12.2 g in the other three. For a smaller number on the day, the cup of torn pieces at 129 calories is the easiest win; for staying full, none of these cakes will do it, so treat the slice as dessert and build satiety elsewhere in the meal.
Most popular angel food cake brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Arnie's Angel Food Cake | 193 cal |
| Whole Foods Market Angel Food Cake | 246 cal |
| Hill & Valley Sugar Free Angel Food Cake | 137 cal |
| Lewis Bake Shop Angel Food Cake | 246 cal |
| Ukrop's Angel Food Cake | 245 cal |
| Kroger Angel Food Cake | 304 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Angel food cake FAQs
How many calories are in a slice of angel food cake?
A standard 60 g slice has 154 calories, based on the USDA figure of 257 calories per 100 g. That slice also carries 35.2 g of carbohydrate, 18.3 g of sugar and 3.7 g of protein. A thicker home-cut wedge of 85 g would come to roughly 218 calories.
Is angel food cake healthy?
It is a 154-calorie dessert with 0.2 g of fat and no cholesterol, which makes it one of the leanest cakes you can log. The catches are 18.3 g of sugar and 307 mg of sodium per slice, or 13% of the Daily Value for sodium. Almost no fiber either, at 0.1 g.
Why does angel food cake have no fat?
The batter contains 0.3 g of fat per 100 g because it uses whipped egg whites instead of yolks, butter or oil. Structure comes from the foam rather than from creamed fat. That is also why cholesterol reads 0 mg while a butter-cake slice of the same weight can carry 5 to 7 g of fat.
How many carbs are in angel food cake?
One 60 g slice has 35.2 g of carbohydrate, which is 13% of the Daily Value, and 58.7 g per 100 g. Sugar accounts for 18.3 g of the slice and fiber for only 0.1 g. Carbohydrate supplies nearly all of the 154 calories, since fat is effectively zero.
Does angel food cake have protein?
Yes, 3.7 g per 60 g slice, or 6.1 g per 100 g, which is 7% of the Daily Value. All of it comes from the egg whites in the foam. That is decent for a dessert with no dairy and no nuts, though not enough to change how filling the slice is.
Is sugar-free angel food cake lower in calories?
Yes, substantially: the Hill and Valley sugar-free cake lists 137 calories per 100 g against 257 for the plain USDA record, and its labeled portion of 51 g comes to 70 calories. Part of that gap is the smaller piece, but per gram it is still roughly half.
How much sodium is in angel food cake?
One 60 g slice has 307 mg of sodium, 13% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value, from 511 mg per 100 g. That is about an eighth of a teaspoon of table salt hidden in a dessert that tastes only sweet. Two slices put you at roughly 26% of the day.
How many calories are in a whole angel food cake?
A 368 g tube cake works out to about 946 calories at the USDA rate of 257 per 100 g, which is our arithmetic rather than a USDA serving. Store cakes differ: eight Kroger portions of 140 calories total 1,120, while eight Ukrop's portions of 120 total 960.
Similar foods
- Bagel — 277 cal per bagel
- Sesame bagel — 277 cal per medium bagel
- Bread — 75 cal per medium slice
- French Bread — 174 cal per medium slice
- Syrian Bread — 157 cal per medium pita
- Fish Cake — 180 cal per cake or patty
Count it without the math
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