How many calories are in tripe?
A 1-cup (140 g) serving of cooked tripe is 125 calories, and per 100 g tripe runs 89 calories. That makes it the lightest organ meat in the USDA survey data. Protein is respectable at 17.6 g a cup. What actually costs you here is the salt and the cholesterol riding along with it.
You'd need to walk about 25 minutes to burn the 125 calories in a 1-cup (140 g) serving.
How long does it take to burn off tripe?
A 1-cup (140 g) serving is 125 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
lb
| Activity | Time to burn 125 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 25 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 16 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 18 min |
| Jogging | 15 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 28 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 (140 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Tripe quick facts
- US servings from a cubic inch to a full cup
- Raw tripe menudo and stewed tripe by the numbers
- Sodium and cholesterol are the rows to watch
- How does tripe compare?
- Most popular tripe brands
- Tripe FAQs
Tripe quick facts
Nobody eats tripe raw. The record on this page is the one for tripe the way it reaches the plate: FNDDS 2706162, "Tripe", from the 2021-2023 survey food list, which is cooked, salted the way home and restaurant kitchens salt it, and published with household measures — a cup, a cubic inch. That is the piece a person is holding when they look this up, so it drives every number below.
The cooked-without-salt record and the raw record are still worth knowing, and both sit in the variants table further down. They differ because of what happens in the pot, not because USDA disagrees with itself.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 cup (140 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 89 | 125 | — |
| Total fat | 3.85 g | 5.4 g | 7% |
| Saturated fat | 1.35 g | 1.9 g | 9% |
| Carbohydrate | 0 g | 0 g | 0% |
| Dietary fiber | 0 g | 0 g | 0% |
| Total sugars | 0 g | 0 g | — |
| Protein | 12.6 g | 17.6 g | 35% |
| Sodium | 425 mg | 595 mg | 26% |
% 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, because USDA does not publish either value for this tripe record. Cholesterol and potassium it does publish — 127 mg and 70 mg per 100 g, which works out to 178 mg of cholesterol (59% of the Daily Value) and 98 mg of potassium (2%) in a cup. Hold that cholesterol figure; it comes back later.
US servings from a cubic inch to a full cup
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cubic inch, cooked | 18 g | 16 kcal |
| 1 oz | 28 g | 25 kcal |
| 1/2 cup, cooked | 70 g | 62 kcal |
| 3 oz, cooked | 85 g | 76 kcal |
| 1 cup, cooked | 140 g | 125 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 89 kcal |
The cup and the cubic inch are USDA's own household measures for this record. The half cup, the 3 oz portion and the ounce are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not USDA servings — useful, because 3 oz is how recipes and meat counters talk, and how the comparison table below is built.
Here is the trap worth knowing. A cup of tripe weighs 140 g, but a cup of most stewed dishes made from it weighs 250 g or more, because broth and hominy fill the space between the pieces. Same word, nearly double the weight. Log the dish, not the meat, when there is liquid in the bowl.
Raw tripe menudo and stewed tripe by the numbers
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical piece | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beef tripe, raw | 85 kcal | 4 oz raw, 113 g | 96 kcal |
| Beef tripe, cooked, simmered | 94 kcal | 3 oz, 85 g | 80 kcal |
| New Zealand beef tripe, boiled | 103 kcal | 3 oz, 85 g | 88 kcal |
| Latino restaurant tripe soup | 74 kcal | 3 oz, 85 g | 63 kcal |
| Canned menudo, tripe and hominy stew | 80 kcal | 1 cup, 250 g | 200 kcal |
| Stewed tripe with potatoes, Puerto Rican style | 109 kcal | 1 cup, 280 g | 305 kcal |
Raw to cooked, tripe behaves backwards. A steak sheds water and concentrates: 4 oz raw lands near 3 oz cooked. Tripe holds water instead, and the USDA pair shows it — 85 calories per 100 g raw, 94 per 100 g simmered, while protein drifts down from 12.07 g to 11.71 g. So the old "4 oz raw equals 3 oz cooked" shortcut does not apply here. Weigh it after the pot.
Honeycomb tripe, the ridged sheet from the second stomach, is the same beef tripe nutritionally; the name describes the texture, not a different number. Imported New Zealand tripe is the exception in the table, from a leaner grass-fed herd: 103 calories per 100 g but 19 g of protein, the densest protein of any tripe record here.
The canned aisle is a different food. Menudo is tripe plus hominy plus broth, and the hominy is doing most of the calorie work: La Costena's menudo is 200 calories a cup and Juanita's 179 per 236 g cup, while Goya's tripe stew with vegetables is only 121 per 252 g cup, mostly because it is more liquid. Rose Beef Tripe with Milk is the outlier at 106 calories per 100 g, 90 in a 3 oz serving. Puerto Rican stewed tripe with potatoes tops the list at 305 calories a cup, and that is potatoes talking — 9.49 g of carbohydrate per 100 g in a food that otherwise has none.
Sodium and cholesterol are the rows to watch
Calories are not the story with tripe. Two other rows are.
Sodium first. A cup of tripe cooked the way people cook it carries 595 mg, 26% of the FDA Daily Value of 2,300 mg — about a quarter teaspoon of table salt, before anything is served alongside it. Now look at the simmered-without-salt record: 68 mg per 100 g against 425 mg for the as-eaten one. More than six times the sodium, and none of it came from the animal. It came from the water it was boiled in. If you are watching sodium, tripe cooked at home with an unsalted first boil is a genuinely different food from tripe served as a soup or stew, where the dish itself already runs 411 to 561 mg per 100 g.
Cholesterol second. A cup delivers 178 mg, 59% of the 300 mg Daily Value, for 125 calories. That ratio is the unusual part: most foods that use up half your cholesterol allowance charge you several hundred calories for the privilege. Tripe charges 125.
What you get in return is clean protein — 17.6 g a cup, 35% of the Daily Value, with zero carbohydrate and 1.9 g of saturated fat, under a tenth of the daily limit. MyPlate counts organ meats in the protein foods group, and by the protein-per-calorie math tripe earns its place there easily.
How does tripe compare?
| Organ meat | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories | Protein per 100 g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tripe | 89 kcal | 3 oz, 85 g | 76 kcal | 12.6 g |
| Sweetbreads | 124 kcal | 3 oz, 85 g | 105 kcal | 22.49 g |
| Kidney | 157 kcal | 3 oz, 85 g | 133 kcal | 27.05 g |
| Beef liver | 174 kcal | 3 oz, 85 g | 148 kcal | 26.31 g |
Our take: tripe is the lightest of these four by a wide margin — 76 calories for 3 oz against 148 for the same weight of liver — and it is also the thinnest in protein, at 12.6 g per 100 g where the other three all clear 22 g. So the choice splits cleanly. If you want volume on the plate for very few calories, tripe wins and nothing else in this table is close; a full cup still lands at 125. If you want protein per bite, liver or kidney does in 3 oz what tripe needs a cup and a third to match. And if sodium is your constraint, cook the tripe yourself rather than opening a can — that single decision moves more milligrams than any swap in this table.
Most popular tripe 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) |
|---|---|
| Goya Beef Tripe Stew with Vegetables | 48 cal |
| Juanita's Foods Menudo with Honeycomb Tripe | 76 cal |
| Juanita's Foods Cooked Beef Tripe in Bone Stock | 62 cal |
| La Costena Menudo Beef Tripe and Hominy Stew | 80 cal |
| Chata Red Menudo Beef Tripe Stew with Hominy | 82 cal |
| Rose Beef Tripe with Milk | 106 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Tripe FAQs
How many calories are in tripe?
125 calories in a 1-cup (140 g) serving of cooked tripe, or 89 calories per 100 g. A 3 oz portion, the size most recipes call for, is 76 calories, and a single cubic inch is 16. That is the lightest organ meat in the USDA survey data.
How much protein is in tripe?
17.6 g of protein in a cup, which is 35% of the Daily Value, and 12.6 g per 100 g. That is real protein for 125 calories, but it is the thinnest of the organ meats: beef liver carries 26.31 g per 100 g and kidney 27.05 g in the same weight.
Is tripe high in cholesterol?
Yes — a cup carries 178 mg of cholesterol, 59% of the 300 mg Daily Value, for only 125 calories. Per 100 g the figure is 127 mg. If you track cholesterol, tripe spends a large share of the day's allowance at a very small calorie cost.
How many calories are in a cup of menudo?
About 200 calories in a 1-cup (250 g) serving of canned menudo with hominy, at 80 calories per 100 g. The hominy and the broth carry most of that, not the tripe. A canned tripe stew with vegetables is lighter, 121 calories for a 252 g cup.
Does tripe have carbs?
None — the USDA record lists 0 g of carbohydrate, 0 g of fiber and 0 g of sugars per 100 g. Carbs show up only once tripe becomes a dish: stewed tripe with potatoes runs 9.49 g per 100 g, and canned menudo adds hominy on top of the meat.
Is tripe good for weight loss?
At 89 calories per 100 g with 12.6 g of protein and no carbohydrate, tripe is one of the cheapest sources of protein per gram at the meat counter. The catch is sodium: a cup cooked the usual way brings 595 mg, 26% of the Daily Value.
Raw vs cooked tripe: which has more calories?
Cooked — raw beef tripe is 85 calories per 100 g and simmered tripe 94, because tripe holds water rather than shedding it. Protein moves the other way, from 12.07 g raw down to 11.71 g cooked. A 4 oz raw piece is 96 calories; 3 oz simmered is 80.
How much sodium is in tripe?
595 mg in a 1-cup serving, 26% of the Daily Value and roughly a quarter teaspoon of table salt. That is tripe cooked the way people eat it. Tripe simmered with no salt added is only 68 mg per 100 g, against 425 mg for the salted version.
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Count it without the math
Point the camera at the bowl and BodyPal counts the tripe for you, broth and hominy included.
