How many calories in a chocolate glazed donut?
A chocolate glazed donut in the size most bakery cases sell — 67 g, about three and a half inches across — is 303 calories. Per 100 g the figure is 452, the highest of USDA's generic donut records. A medium 43 g donut comes to 194, and a mini chocolate-frosted donette is 81.
You'd need to walk about 61 minutes to burn the 303 calories in a large donut (67 g).
How long does it take to burn off a chocolate glazed donut?
A large donut (67 g) is 303 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 303 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 1 hr 1 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 38 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 43 min |
| Jogging | 36 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 1 hr 7 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 (67 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Chocolate glazed donut quick facts
- US servings, from a donette to a bakery donut
- The chocolate on top is fat, not sugar
- Chocolate glazed is not a chocolate donut
- Cake, yeast, holes and donettes
- The sodium runs the wrong way
- How does a chocolate glazed donut compare?
- Most popular chocolate glazed donut brands
- FAQ
Chocolate glazed donut quick facts
Every number on this page comes from one record: SR Legacy 174991, "Doughnuts, cake-type, plain, chocolate-coated or frosted". Plain cake dough, chocolate on the outside. Break one open and the crumb is pale — that pale crumb is the whole reason this record is the right one, because USDA keeps chocolate dough in a separate file with very different numbers.
The serving column is one large donut at 67 g, the USDA household weight for a 3½ in ring. Store packages print 50 g to 71 g for "1 donut", so 67 g sits near the top of what a real package holds and squarely in the middle of what a bakery case hands you.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 donut (67 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 452 | 303 | — |
| Total fat | 25.25 g | 16.9 g | 22% |
| Saturated fat | 13.47 g | 9.0 g | 45% |
| Carbohydrate | 51.33 g | 34.4 g | 13% |
| Dietary fiber | 1.9 g | 1.3 g | 5% |
| Total sugars | 26.65 g | 17.9 g | — |
| Protein | 4.93 g | 3.3 g | 7% |
| Sodium | 326 mg | 218 mg | 9% |
% 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 rows you would expect are missing. USDA publishes no added sugars and no trans fat figure for any donut record in this dataset, so those lines come out rather than get filled from a label that describes somebody else's donut. Total sugars has no Daily Value of its own, which is why that cell is empty as well.
One row does the damage, and it is not the calorie row. 9.0 g of saturated fat is 45% of the day in an object that carries 15% of the day's calories. Everything below is a version of that sentence.
US servings, from a donette to a bakery donut
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Mini donette, 2 in | 18 g | 81 |
| 1 oz | 28.35 g | 128 |
| 1 donut, medium, 3 in | 43 g | 194 |
| 1 donut, large, 3½ in | 67 g | 303 |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 452 |
The medium and the large are the two rows that matter, and the gap between them is the single most useful thing on this page. Same dough, same coating, same USDA record: 194 calories at 43 g and 303 at 67 g. That is +56% for half an inch of diameter, with nothing changed in the recipe.
Half an inch is not something anyone eyeballs across a display case. Weigh one donut once, on any kitchen scale, and you will know for the rest of the year which end of that range your usual bakery is selling. The ounce row is there for exactly that: 128 calories per ounce, so a 2 oz donut is about 256 calories — our own doubling of that row, not a USDA serving — and the 67 g large is a shade under 2.4 oz.
Donettes are the other trap, in the friendlier direction. One mini is 81 calories, which sounds like a rounding error, and they are sold by the bag rather than by the piece.
The chocolate on top is fat, not sugar
Set the chocolate-coated donut next to the plain sugared or glazed cake donut, SR Legacy 174992, and the calorie difference is almost nothing: 452 against 426 per 100 g. Twenty-six calories. If calories were all you tracked, the chocolate would be free.
The saturated fat tells a different story. Plain glazed carries 5.93 g per 100 g. Chocolate-coated carries 13.47 g, which is 2.3 times as much, and the reason is mechanical rather than nutritional. A chocolate coating has to set hard at room temperature and stay glossy in a display case, and the fat that does that job is solid at room temperature. Sugar glaze does not need it.
Per donut that is 9.0 g of saturated fat, against 2.7 g in a 45 g plain glazed one. The FDA Daily Value for saturated fat is 20 g a day, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans put the ceiling at under 10% of calories. One donut spends 45% of that allowance before breakfast is over.
So the honest way to read this donut is not "303 calories". It is "303 calories and nearly half a day of saturated fat", and those two numbers point in different directions when you decide whether it fits.
Chocolate glazed is not a chocolate donut
These two get filed together on menu boards and they are not the same food.
SR Legacy 174993, "Doughnuts, cake-type, chocolate, sugared or glazed" is the one with cocoa in the dough and a sugar glaze on top. It runs 417 calories per 100 g, or 250 for a 60 g donut. Chocolate glazed, the pale-crumb one, runs 452 and 303.
| Nutrient | Chocolate glazed (174991) | Chocolate cake, glazed (174993) |
|---|---|---|
| Calories per 100 g | 452 | 417 |
| Saturated fat per 100 g | 13.47 g | 5.13 g |
| Total sugars per 100 g | 26.65 g | 31.92 g |
| Typical donut | 67 g, 303 cal | 60 g, 250 cal |
Read the middle row twice. Cocoa worked into dough brings color and flavor and almost no hard fat; chocolate poured over the outside brings 2.6 times the saturated fat. The chocolate-dough donut is also the sweeter of the two, 31.92 g of sugars against 26.65 g, because a sugar glaze is sugar and a chocolate coating is mostly fat and cocoa solids.
The practical read: if you want the chocolate flavor and the lighter number, the chocolate cake donut with sugar glaze is the better buy on both counts. If what you want is the glossy shell, you are buying the shell, and the shell is fat.
Cake, yeast, holes and donettes
| Version | Per 100 g | Serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate glazed cake donut | 452 | 1 donut (67 g) | 303 |
| Chocolate glazed yeast donut | 416 | 1 donut (75 g) | 312 |
| Chocolate donut with chocolate icing | 413 | 1 donut (75 g) | 310 |
| Chocolate cake donut, sugar glazed | 417 | 1 donut (60 g) | 250 |
| Chocolate glazed donut holes | 420 | 4 holes (50 g) | 210 |
| Mini chocolate-frosted donette | 452 | 1 donette (18 g) | 81 |
| Plain glazed cake donut | 426 | 1 donut (45 g) | 192 |
The yeast row is the density illusion in miniature. At 416 calories per 100 g a chocolate-iced yeast donut is lighter than the cake donut's 452, and yet it lands at 312 calories against 303, because yeast dough is airy and a yeast donut is therefore a physically bigger object: 75 g against 67 g. Lighter per gram, more grams.
Donut holes look like the escape route and mostly are one. Four chocolate glazed holes weigh 50 g and cost 210 calories, roughly two thirds of a full donut, for something that arrives in a bag you can stop reaching into. The catch is that nobody counts to four.
The sodium runs the wrong way
Donuts are sweet, so sodium is the number nobody checks. It also moves in the opposite direction to everything you would guess.
- Old-fashioned plain cake donut, unsugared: 477 mg per 100 g
- Plain sugared or glazed cake donut: 402 mg
- Chocolate glazed cake donut: 326 mg
The more coating a donut carries, the lower its sodium per 100 g, because the coating is salt-free weight diluting a salted dough. That does not make the chocolate one a low-sodium food. It makes it a donut with a lot of chocolate on it.
In real terms, one 67 g donut holds 218 mg of sodium, or 9% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value. That is not a headline figure on its own, and it is the least interesting number on this page. It is worth knowing only because it is the one people assume is zero.
The fiber column deserves the same glance. A donut gives 1.3 g, 5% of the day, from 34.4 g of carbohydrate. MyPlate asks for half your grains to be whole grains, and this is a grain food that does none of that work.
How does a chocolate glazed donut compare?
| Donut (USDA record) | Per 100 g | Protein | Carbs | Fat | Typical serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate glazed cake (174991) | 452 | 4.93 g | 51.33 g | 25.25 g | 1 large (67 g) | 303 |
| Glazed yeast, enriched (172758) | 421 | 6.14 g | 47.93 g | 22.7 g | 1 medium (60 g) | 253 |
| Chocolate cake, glazed (174993) | 417 | 4.5 g | 57.4 g | 19.9 g | 1 donut (60 g) | 250 |
| Plain cake, sugared or glazed (174992) | 426 | 5.2 g | 50.8 g | 22.9 g | 1 medium (45 g) | 192 |
| Old-fashioned plain cake (174990) | 434 | 5.31 g | 47.06 g | 24.93 g | 1 donut (40 g) | 174 |
Per 100 g these five sit inside a 35-calorie band, which is another way of saying that every donut is roughly the same food and the label on the box barely moves the density. Per donut they range from 174 to 303, a 74% spread, all of it size.
Our take: the glazed yeast donut is the best-value ring on this list — 253 calories, the highest protein of the five at 6.14 g per 100 g, and 9.45 g of saturated fat per 100 g against 13.47 g for the chocolate-coated one. If you specifically want chocolate, take it in the dough rather than on the outside: 250 calories instead of 303, and 3.1 g of saturated fat instead of 9.0 g, on a donut of nearly the same size. And if you are counting nothing else today, know that the chocolate glazed donut is the heaviest ring on this list, not because of the chocolate flavor but because of what holds the chocolate on.
Most popular chocolate glazed donut 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) |
|---|---|
| Mel-O-Cream Chocolate Glazed Donut Holes | 420 cal |
| Entenmann's Glazed Chocolate Donuts | 491 cal |
| Hostess Cake Donuts Chocolate Iced | 520 cal |
| Great Value Old Fashioned Chocolate Frosted Donuts | 491 cal |
| Archer Farms Glazed Chocolate Donuts | 404 cal |
| Franz Donut Frosted Chocolate | 474 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Chocolate glazed donut FAQs
How many calories in a chocolate glazed donut?
303 calories for a large 67 g donut, at 452 calories per 100 g. A medium 43 g donut is 194 and a mini chocolate-frosted donette is 81. That 67 g donut also carries 16.9 g of fat and 17.9 g of total sugars.
How many calories in a chocolate glazed donut hole?
About 53 calories each, from a 210-calorie serving of four holes weighing 50 g. That works out to 420 calories per 100 g, close to the 452 of a full-size chocolate glazed donut, so holes are smaller rather than lighter per bite.
What are the nutrition facts for a chocolate glazed donut?
One 67 g donut has 303 calories, 16.9 g total fat, 9.0 g saturated fat, 34.4 g carbohydrate, 17.9 g total sugars, 1.3 g fiber, 3.3 g protein and 218 mg sodium. Per 100 g that is 452 calories and 25.25 g of fat.
How many carbs are in a chocolate glazed donut?
34.4 g in a 67 g donut, 13% of the Daily Value, of which 17.9 g is sugars. Per 100 g the figure is 51.33 g. Fiber barely registers at 1.3 g per donut, so almost all of that carbohydrate is available starch and sugar.
How much protein is in a chocolate glazed donut?
3.3 g in a 67 g donut, which is 7% of the Daily Value and 4.93 g per 100 g. A glazed yeast donut does better at 6.14 g per 100 g. Neither is a protein food; a donut is a fat and sugar item with some flour in it.
Chocolate glazed or plain glazed — which has fewer calories?
Plain glazed, but only just: 426 calories per 100 g against 452. The real difference is saturated fat, 5.93 g against 13.47 g per 100 g. A plain glazed 45 g donut is 192 calories, and a chocolate glazed 67 g donut is 303.
Is a chocolate glazed donut the same as a chocolate donut?
No — a chocolate glazed donut is plain dough with chocolate coating, 452 calories per 100 g. A chocolate cake donut has cocoa in the dough and a sugar glaze, 417 per 100 g with 5.13 g of saturated fat instead of 13.47 g. Different foods, different records.
How much sodium is in a chocolate glazed donut?
218 mg in a 67 g donut, 9% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value, from 326 mg per 100 g. Oddly, a plain unsugared cake donut is saltier at 477 mg per 100 g, because coating adds sodium-free weight to a salted dough.
Similar foods
- Cake donut — 308 cal per large donut
- Honey Bun — 358 cal per 3 oz bun
- Beignet — 188 cal per beignet
- Crescent roll — 114 cal per crescent roll
- Apple Fritter — 455 cal per fritter
- Chocolate chip muffin — 523 cal per medium muffin
Count it without the math
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