How many calories are in a Dönerteller?
A Dönerteller with fries, salad and yoghurt sauce comes to about 1,205 kcal. A plate usually carries about twice the meat of a kebab in bread, 260 g, and that alone is 670. The fries add another 405.
The plate, as served
About 260 g of veal and beef döner meat, a 200 g portion of fries, two handfuls of salad and two portions of yoghurt garlic sauce.
Where the calories come from
| Nutrient | Grams | Calories | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protein | 80g | 320 | 27% |
| Carbs | 60g | 240 | 20% |
| Fat | 68g | 612 | 52% |
| Fibre | 8g | counted within carbs | |
The ring is sized by calories, not grams: protein and carbs are 4 kcal a gram, fat is 9. Drawn by grams, fat would look like a sliver of what it actually contributes.
What is on the plate
| Döner meat, veal and beef x2A snack-bar portion, about 130 g | 670 kcal |
| Fries (Pommes)A standard snack-bar portion, about 200 g | 405 kcal |
| Yoghurt garlic sauce x2Two squirts, about 50 g | 90 kcal |
| Döner salad x2A handful, about 80 g | 40 kcal |
The same dish, several ways
This is where the calories actually move. Not the ingredient, the cooking.
- With flatbread on the side1,505+300
Many shops add a wedge of bread to the plate. Eaten, it adds 300 kcal.
- Chicken instead of veal and beef1,235+30
About 30 kcal more on a plate this size.
- About 260 g of veal and beef döner meat, a 200 g portion of fries, two handfuls of salad and two portions of yoghurt garlic sauce.As served1,205
- With rice instead of fries995-210
About 210 kcal less. The rice here is plain; a Turkish pilaf cooked with butter sits higher.
- Salad plate, no fries or rice820-385
The meat stays and the starch goes. Still a full meal, with about 75 g of protein.
Where each number comes from
Composition tables list ingredients, not dinners. There is no row anywhere for this plate, so it is built from its parts, and the preparation assumed for each part is written next to it, because that assumption is usually worth more calories than the ingredient.
| Component | Portion and preparation | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Döner meat, veal and beef x2 | A snack-bar portion, about 130 gBLS U030172 (Kalb Hackfleisch, gegrillt). German Döner spits are usually part minced meat. BLS has no Döner row for veal or beef, so grilled veal mince, the closest match, is used. | 670 |
| Fries (Pommes) | A standard snack-bar portion, about 200 gBLS K130492 (Pommes frites tiefgefroren, frittiert). Frozen fries, deep fried. Oven-baked fries come to about 165 kcal per 100 g against 203 here (BLS K130262). | 405 |
| Yoghurt garlic sauce x2 | Two squirts, about 50 gBLS X3A9010 (Joghurt-Dip). The yoghurt-based herb or garlic sauce. A mayonnaise-based sauce is roughly three times as much per spoonful (BLS R148600). | 90 |
| Döner salad x2 | A handful, about 80 gBLS X201160 (Gemischter Salat ohne Salatmarinade). Lettuce, cabbage, tomato and onion with no dressing. BLS row for a mixed salad without marinade. | 40 |
| Total | 1205 | |
Sources: German Nutrient Database BLS 4.0 (Max Rubner-Institut), CC BY 4.0. Every figure is an estimate with a range around it, and is rounded to the nearest 5 kcal rather than pretending to a precision that does not exist.
Why you will see 900 to 1500 kcal quoted for this
fddb puts a Dönerteller at 1,125 to 1,500 kcal for 300 to 400 g, Bodystriker at 900 to 1,300. Both count a plate with fries, and the difference is mostly how much meat lands on it. Some shops serve 150 g and some closer to 300, and at 256 kcal per 100 g that spread is worth almost 400 kcal on its own.
Which is why this page shows the sum instead of asserting a total. Build the plate you actually eat and the number is yours rather than an average of strangers.
Build your own plateCommon questions
- How many calories are in a Dönerteller?
- About 1,205 kcal with fries, salad and sauce, and about 995 with rice. A salad-only plate is about 820.
- Is a Dönerteller lighter than a döner kebab?
- Usually not. The plate carries twice the meat and comes with fries, so it lands about 500 kcal above a kebab in bread. The salad plate is about 120 kcal above a kebab, with 75 g of protein against 47.
- Fries or rice with a Dönerteller?
- Rice saves about 210 kcal in this build. Turkish rice is often cooked with butter, which narrows the gap.
- How much protein is in a Dönerteller?
- About 80 g with fries. Few things on a snack-bar menu carry more.
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