How many calories are in a blueberry scone?

A regular blueberry scone weighs 70 g and carries 262 calories. Per 100 g it runs 374 calories, and the berries barely move that number: butter and flour set it, not the fruit. Roughly two thirds of the scone is carbohydrate and fat by weight, and 6.1 g of that fat is saturated.

You'd need to walk about 52 minutes to burn the 262 calories in one regular scone (70 g).

On this page

• Blueberry scone quick facts
• US servings from one ounce to three minis
• Minis and iced store scones
• Saturated fat is the row to watch on a scone
• How does a blueberry scone compare?
• Most popular blueberry scone brands
• FAQ

Blueberry scone quick facts

The number below comes from the USDA record FNDDS 2707809, "Scone, with fruit". That is the right row for a blueberry scone: it describes the fruited recipe rather than the plain one, and it is the only general US entry for it. Bakery brands sell specific products with their own labels, and those sit further down the page instead of being averaged into this table.

USDA does not publish added sugars or trans fat for this record, so neither row appears here. Cholesterol and potassium do exist in the record: one 70 g scone has 46 mg of cholesterol (15% DV) and 127 mg of potassium (3% DV).

% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.

Total sugars have no Daily Value, which is why that cell is empty. The percentages follow the FDA reference amounts for a 2,000-calorie day.

US servings from one ounce to three minis

The regular scone and the miniature scone are USDA household measures. The half scone, the three-mini pack and the ounce are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not USDA servings.

The half-scone line is worth a second look. A scone is one of the few breakfast pastries people genuinely eat in halves, and half of one is 131 calories, which is less than a plain bagel's usual territory. Splitting it with someone at the counter is the cheapest edit available, and it costs nothing in taste because the crumb is dense enough to survive being torn.

Minis and iced store scones

Dropping the fruit costs you five calories a scone, not saves them. The plain scone is 382 per 100 g against 374 for the fruited one, because the berries dilute the butter slightly and bring their own sugar instead of added sugar. Choosing a blueberry scone over a plain one for calorie reasons is a wash.

The "mini" label is where the arithmetic goes sideways. A single miniature scone is 75 calories, but nobody eats one. Retail packs of two-bite blueberry scones are portioned at three pieces: 60 to 64 g on the label, 230 to 240 calories depending on the brand, from Two-Bite at 230 for 60 g up to the Walmart bakery and 365 Whole Foods Market versions at 240. That lands within 20 to 40 calories of a whole regular scone, so the small format buys you a sense of restraint rather than a smaller number.

Icing is the densest version per gram at 392 calories per 100 g, higher than any other row in the table. A Giant Eagle iced blueberry scone still totals only 200 calories, though, because the piece itself is 51 g. Small and glazed beats large and bare, on the day's total at least.

Saturated fat is the row to watch on a scone

One scone is 13% of a 2,000-calorie day but 31% of the saturated fat allowance, so the fat runs nearly two and a half times ahead of the energy. That gap is the real signature of a scone: it is a butter product with fruit in it. Two of them in one morning clear 60% of the day's saturated fat before lunch, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans put the ceiling at less than 10% of calories.

Fiber is the other surprise. Blueberries sound like they should carry it, but the record shows 1.5 g per 100 g, which is 1.1 g in a whole scone, or 4% DV. The sugars in the same scone come to 13.0 g. If fiber is what you are after at breakfast, whole grain choices do far more work per calorie than the berries in a pastry.

Sodium is quietly high for something sweet: 283 mg per scone, 12% DV, roughly an eighth of a teaspoon of table salt. Baking powder and salted butter do that. If you are watching sodium, the scone costs about as much as a slice of deli bread and a half, which is not what most people expect from a dessert-shaped breakfast.

How does a blueberry scone compare?

Our take: these four records sit within 1 calorie per 100 g of each other, so the pastry case is essentially one food at four addresses. What separates them is how much of it lands in your hand. The scone is the heaviest standard piece at 70 g, and that alone accounts for its roughly 50-calorie lead over the muffins and the fruit bread. For weight loss, take the fruit bread or a muffin, or eat half a scone at 131. For staying full to lunch, the scone wins on size and on protein, at 4.4 g against 3.4 g in a 2 oz plain muffin, though neither is a protein breakfast by any measure. If the goal is a genuinely lighter start, none of these four is the answer.

Most popular blueberry scone 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.

Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.

Blueberry scone FAQs

Similar foods

• Cinnamon Roll — 335 cal plain, 407 frosted
• Scone — 267 cal per regular scone
• Garlic Bread — 143 cal per slice
• Chocolate chip muffin — 523 cal per medium muffin
• Apple Fritter — 455 cal per fritter
• Crescent roll — 114 cal per crescent roll

Count it without the math

Point the camera at the plate and BodyPal counts the scone for you, berries, icing and all.