Calories in a Burger Bun, Dinner Roll and Hard Roll

By NYUS Inc. · Published 28 October 2026

A burger bun, a dinner roll and a hard roll each have a roll weight printed on their SR Legacy record page. This guide gives fourteen such records from the SR Legacy table of USDA FoodData Central: seven dinner roll records (egg, rye, sweet, wheat, whole-wheat, plain commercially prepared and plain from a recipe), four hamburger or hot dog roll records (mixed-grain, whole wheat, wheat or cracked wheat, whole grain white), a hard roll (includes kaiser), a French roll and a Mexican bollilo roll, with the weights printed on their record pages. IFCT 2017, the Indian Food Composition Tables from ICMR-NIN, has no bread, bun or roll row, so this page uses SR Legacy only. Bread slices, naan, roti and paratha are in our bread guide, bagels, croissants and tortillas in our bagel guide, a burger with its patty in our pizza and burger guide and a filled sandwich in our sandwich guide.

The short answer

By the SR Legacy records, 1 hamburger, frankfurter or bun roll (43 g) is 133.3 kcal, 1 whole wheat hamburger or hot dog roll (56 g) 150.6 kcal, 1 mixed-grain hamburger or hot dog roll (43 g) 113.1 kcal, 1 hard or kaiser roll (57 g) 167.0 kcal, 1 small plain dinner roll (25 g) 77.5 kcal and 1 foot long frankfurter roll (86 g) 266.6 kcal. Our reading: the per 100 g figures sit in a narrow band, so the roll's weight decides the calories: a small dinner roll is 25 g but a foot long roll is 86 g.

SR Legacy: per 100 g

Every figure below is exactly as the record page shows it. The record names are the dataset's own.

SR Legacy: per printed portion

Each figure is our arithmetic on exact weights: kcal per 100 g times the grams, divided by 100, with the exact product in the sums line and the result shown to 0.1 with half rounding up. Every weight below is printed on the SR Legacy record page; none is ours. The records also print plain ounce weights (1 oz, 28.35 g), which are not shown; labels that carry "(1 oz)" inside a roll label are shown as printed.

The sums: 175027 307 × 35 / 100 = 107.45, so 107.5 kcal; 175029 286 × 28 / 100 = 80.08, so 80.1 kcal; 175029 286 × 43 / 100 = 122.98, so 123.0 kcal; 175029 286 × 36 / 100 = 102.96, so 103.0 kcal; 174107 321 × 39 / 100 = 125.19, so 125.2 kcal; 174107 321 × 30 / 100 = 96.3, so 96.3 kcal; 175030 273 × 28 / 100 = 76.44, so 76.4 kcal; 172794 266 × 135 / 100 = 359.1, so 359.1 kcal; 172794 266 × 65 / 100 = 172.9, so 172.9 kcal; 172794 266 × 43 / 100 = 114.38, so 114.4 kcal; 172794 266 × 94 / 100 = 250.04, so 250.0 kcal; 172794 266 × 36 / 100 = 95.76, so 95.8 kcal; 172794 266 × 28 / 100 = 74.48, so 74.5 kcal; 172793 310 × 25 / 100 = 77.5, so 77.5 kcal; 172793 310 × 86 / 100 = 266.6, so 266.6 kcal; 172793 310 × 43 / 100 = 133.3, so 133.3 kcal; 172793 310 × 28 / 100 = 86.8, so 86.8 kcal; 172810 316 × 35 / 100 = 110.6, so 110.6 kcal; 172810 316 × 43 / 100 = 135.88, so 135.9 kcal; 175031 293 × 57 / 100 = 167.01, so 167.0 kcal; 172795 277 × 38 / 100 = 105.26, so 105.3 kcal; 174078 318 × 98 / 100 = 311.64, so 311.6 kcal; 172797 263 × 43 / 100 = 113.09, so 113.1 kcal; 174090 269 × 56 / 100 = 150.64, so 150.6 kcal; 174089 269 × 51 / 100 = 137.19, so 137.2 kcal; 174094 255 × 43 / 100 = 109.65, so 109.7 kcal.

What stands out in the numbers

• Energy per 100 g, SR Legacy, highest first: 174107 (Rolls, dinner, sweet) 321, 174078 (Bread, roll, Mexican, bollilo) 318, 172810 (Rolls, dinner, plain, prepared from recipe, made with low fat (2%) milk) 316, 172793 (Rolls, dinner, plain, commercially prepared (includes brown-and-serve)) 310, 175027 (Rolls, dinner, egg) 307, 175031 (Rolls, hard (includes kaiser)) 293, 175029 (Rolls, dinner, rye) 286, 172795 (Rolls, french) 277, 175030 (Rolls, dinner, wheat) 273, 174090 (Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, whole wheat) 269, 174089 (Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, wheat/cracked wheat) 269, 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat) 266, 172797 (Rolls, hamburger or hotdog, mixed-grain) 263, 174094 (Rolls, hamburger, whole grain white, calcium-fortified) 255.
• Printed hamburger, frankfurter and bun portions, highest first: 172793 (Rolls, dinner, plain, commercially prepared (includes brown-and-serve)), 1 roll (foot long frankfurter roll), 86 g, 266.6 kcal, 174090 (Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, whole wheat), 1 roll, 56 g, 150.6 kcal, 174089 (Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, wheat/cracked wheat), 1 roll, 51 g, 137.2 kcal, 172810 (Rolls, dinner, plain, prepared from recipe, made with low fat (2%) milk), 1 large roll or bun (3-1/2" dia), 43 g, 135.9 kcal, 172793 (Rolls, dinner, plain, commercially prepared (includes brown-and-serve)), 1 roll (hamburger, frankfurter, onion roll, bun, large roll), 43 g, 133.3 kcal, 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat), 1 roll (hamburger, frankfurter roll), 43 g, 114.4 kcal, 172797 (Rolls, hamburger or hotdog, mixed-grain), 1 roll, 43 g, 113.1 kcal, 174094 (Rolls, hamburger, whole grain white, calcium-fortified), 1 piece roll, 43 g, 109.7 kcal.
• Printed submarine and hoagie roll portions, highest first: 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat), 1 roll, large submarine, hoagie, 135 g, 359.1 kcal, 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat), 1 roll medium submarine, hoagie, 94 g, 250.0 kcal, 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat), 1 roll (small submarine, hoagie roll), 65 g, 172.9 kcal.
• Printed portions of 40 g or less, highest first: 174107 (Rolls, dinner, sweet), 1 slice, 39 g, 125.2 kcal, 172810 (Rolls, dinner, plain, prepared from recipe, made with low fat (2%) milk), 1 roll (2-1/2" dia), 35 g, 110.6 kcal, 175027 (Rolls, dinner, egg), 1 roll (2-1/2" dia), 35 g, 107.5 kcal, 172795 (Rolls, french), 1 roll, 38 g, 105.3 kcal, 175029 (Rolls, dinner, rye), 1 medium, 36 g, 103.0 kcal, 174107 (Rolls, dinner, sweet), 1 roll, 30 g, 96.3 kcal, 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat), 1 medium (2-1/2" dia), 36 g, 95.8 kcal, 172793 (Rolls, dinner, plain, commercially prepared (includes brown-and-serve)), 1 roll (1 oz), 28 g, 86.8 kcal, 175029 (Rolls, dinner, rye), 1 small (2-3/8" dia), 28 g, 80.1 kcal, 172793 (Rolls, dinner, plain, commercially prepared (includes brown-and-serve)), 1 each (pan, dinner, or small roll) (2" square, 2" high), 25 g, 77.5 kcal, 175030 (Rolls, dinner, wheat), 1 roll (1 oz), 28 g, 76.4 kcal, 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat), 1 roll (1 oz), 28 g, 74.5 kcal.

Why these are reference rows, not your bun

• Names are the records'. No record name or portion label shown here carries a company name. The records are USDA's generic dinner roll, hamburger or hotdog roll, hard roll and French roll rows; we do not say that a bun from any bakery or maker matches them.
• No row for pav, kulcha or brioche. A search of the SR Legacy table on 28 Oct 2026 for pav, brioche, kulcha, hoagie, burger bun and hot dog bun returned no record, so the page gives no figure for them. IFCT 2017 has no row for any of these. The hamburger or hotdog roll rows are the nearest rows, not a match we claim.
• Every portion here is printed. No roll weight on this page is ours: each is printed on its record page, and the only weight that is ours is the labelled 100 g example in the logging section.
• The records' own notes. The record pages mark the kcal energy of 12 of the 14 records "Calculated" and print no source label for the energy of the other 2 (175029, 172795); they are USDA values, not our measurements.

How to log it so the numbers hold

• Use the weight on the pack or the scale. 100 g of plain commercially prepared dinner roll (our example weight, not a dataset value) on SR Legacy 172793 is 310 × 100 / 100 = 310, so 310.0 kcal.
• Pick the kind the record names. Plain, whole wheat, mixed-grain, sweet and hard rolls are different rows; the same weight of each gives different calories.
• The filling is separate. A patty, cheese, butter or chutney is not in a roll row: a burger with its patty is in our pizza and burger guide, butter and ghee in our ghee and butter guide a misal pav in our misal pav guide and a vada pav in our vada pav guide.
• Do not mix datasets inside one day. If you log a roll from SR Legacy, keep to that record for the same meal.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

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What this page leaves out

• A calorie target, and any claim about what buns and rolls do to your body: we have not looked up one for any person, so we give none. If you have a medical condition, ask your doctor or dietitian.
• Pav, kulcha, brioche, bao, kathi roll wrappers, naan and any bakery's or maker's version: no record used here. A search of the SR Legacy table on 28 Oct 2026 for pav, brioche, kulcha, hoagie, burger bun and hot dog bun returned no record; a search for bao returned no record, "naan" returned 2 records (171845, 174077) that are rows of our bread guide, and we did not search for kathi roll.
• Record 172796 (hamburger or hotdog roll, plain) is on our live bread guide and record 175028 (dinner roll, oat bran) is named as left out on our live porridge guide; neither is repeated here.
• The "rolls" search (65 results) and the "hamburger" search (63 results) are counted only and not listed, because each is over 50.
• The "bun" search returned 6 records: 0 used, and these 6 are left out: other 167940 Cinnamon buns, frosted (includes honey buns), 170293 Fast foods, cheeseburger, double, regular patty and bun, with condiments, 172084 Fast foods, cheeseburger; double, regular patty; double decker bun with condiments and special sauce, 173318 Fast foods, hamburger; single, regular patty; double decker bun with condiments and special sauce; already named on a live NYUS guide 172758, 175062.
• The "dinner rolls" search returned 11 records: 7 used, and these 4 are left out: already named on a live NYUS guide 175028; company-named 167590, 168010, 167600.
• The "hard rolls" search returned 1 record: 1 used.
• The "hamburger roll" search returned 6 records: 4 used, and these 2 are left out: already named on a live NYUS guide 172796; company-named 167923.
• The "hotdog roll" search returned 2 records: 1 used, and these 1 are left out: already named on a live NYUS guide 172796.
• The "kaiser" search returned 1 record: 1 used.
• The "rolls plain" search returned 3 records: 2 used, and these 1 are left out: already named on a live NYUS guide 172796.
• The "sweet rolls" search returned 5 records: 1 used, and these 4 are left out: other 175033 Sweet rolls, cheese, 175034 Sweet rolls, cinnamon, commercially prepared with raisins, 172798 Sweet rolls, cinnamon, refrigerated dough with frosting, 172799 Sweet rolls, cinnamon, refrigerated dough with frosting, baked.
• The "french roll" search returned 2 records: 1 used, and these 1 are left out: company-named 168010.
• The "rolls refrigerated dough" search returned 3 records: 0 used, and these 3 are left out: company-named 167513; other 172798 Sweet rolls, cinnamon, refrigerated dough with frosting, 172799 Sweet rolls, cinnamon, refrigerated dough with frosting, baked.
• The "bread roll" search returned 1 record: 1 used.
• The "pita" search returned 4 records: 0 used, and these 4 are left out: already named on a live NYUS guide 174915, 172816, 174916, 173147.
• Nutrients beyond energy, protein, fat and carbohydrate: not covered here.

Sources

• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 175027 (Rolls, dinner, egg): Energy 307 kcal (1280 kJ), protein 9.5 g, total fat 6.4 g, carbohydrate 52 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll (2-1/2" dia) 35 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 175029 (Rolls, dinner, rye): Energy 286 kcal (1200 kJ), protein 10.3 g, total fat 3.4 g, carbohydrate 53.1 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 small (2-3/8" dia) 28 g; 1 large (approx 3-1/2" to 4" dia) 43 g; 1 medium 36 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 174107 (Rolls, dinner, sweet): Energy 321 kcal (1340 kJ), protein 10 g, total fat 7.37 g, carbohydrate 53.6 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 slice 39 g; 1 roll 30 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 175030 (Rolls, dinner, wheat): Energy 273 kcal (1140 kJ), protein 8.6 g, total fat 6.3 g, carbohydrate 46 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll (1 oz) 28 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 172794 (Rolls, dinner, whole-wheat): Energy 266 kcal (1110 kJ), protein 8.7 g, total fat 4.7 g, carbohydrate 51.1 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll, large submarine, hoagie 135 g; 1 roll (small submarine, hoagie roll) 65 g; 1 roll (hamburger, frankfurter roll) 43 g; 1 roll medium submarine, hoagie 94 g; 1 medium (2-1/2" dia) 36 g; 1 roll (1 oz) 28 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 172793 (Rolls, dinner, plain, commercially prepared (includes brown-and-serve)): Energy 310 kcal (1300 kJ), protein 10.9 g, total fat 6.47 g, carbohydrate 52 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 each (pan, dinner, or small roll) (2" square, 2" high) 25 g; 1 roll (foot long frankfurter roll) 86 g; 1 roll (hamburger, frankfurter, onion roll, bun, large roll) 43 g; 1 roll (1 oz) 28 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 172810 (Rolls, dinner, plain, prepared from recipe, made with low fat (2%) milk): Energy 316 kcal (1320 kJ), protein 8.5 g, total fat 7.3 g, carbohydrate 53.4 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll (2-1/2" dia) 35 g; 1 large roll or bun (3-1/2" dia) 43 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 175031 (Rolls, hard (includes kaiser)): Energy 293 kcal (1230 kJ), protein 9.9 g, total fat 4.3 g, carbohydrate 52.7 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll (3-1/2" dia) 57 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 172795 (Rolls, french): Energy 277 kcal (1160 kJ), protein 8.6 g, total fat 4.3 g, carbohydrate 50.2 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll 38 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 174078 (Bread, roll, Mexican, bollilo): Energy 318 kcal (1330 kJ), protein 10.6 g, total fat 5.8 g, carbohydrate 55.8 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 piece 98 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 172797 (Rolls, hamburger or hotdog, mixed-grain): Energy 263 kcal (1100 kJ), protein 9.6 g, total fat 6 g, carbohydrate 44.6 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll 43 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 174090 (Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, whole wheat): Energy 269 kcal (1120 kJ), protein 12.4 g, total fat 4.38 g, carbohydrate 44.9 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll 56 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 174089 (Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, wheat/cracked wheat): Energy 269 kcal (1120 kJ), protein 11.7 g, total fat 3.61 g, carbohydrate 47.3 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 roll 51 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 174094 (Rolls, hamburger, whole grain white, calcium-fortified): Energy 255 kcal (1060 kJ), protein 9.3 g, total fat 3.49 g, carbohydrate 46.5 g per 100 g; portions used: 1 piece roll 43 g (read 28 Oct 2026).
• ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017): no bread, bun or roll row; not used for the figures on this page.
• nyus.in, the NYUS landing page, read on 28 Oct 2026 for the app statements in the NYUS section and the CTA.

The per portion figures, the sums, the rounding, the comparisons and every sentence starting "Our reading" are NYUS's own arithmetic or opinion, not from USDA. The SR Legacy values and portion weights are exactly as printed on the record pages. The names in the first column are the dataset's own record names.

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