How many calories are in bibimbap?
Logged in Kallo on November 1, 2026
Anywhere from about 400 to 800 kcal. The vegetables are most of the bowl by sight and least by calories; the rice, the meat and the oil decide it. Here are four real bowls, each typed into Kallo the way people describe them.
Korean restaurant, bulgogi
Bibimbap at a Korean restaurant (rice + bulgogi beef + spinach + bean sprouts + carrots + zucchini + fried egg + gochujang + sesame oil)
Bibimbap at a Korean restaurant (rice + bulgogi beef + spinach + bean sprouts + carrots + zucchini + fried egg + gochujang + sesame oil)
Hot stone bowl
Dolsot bibimbap in a hot stone bowl (rice + beef + vegetables + raw egg yolk + gochujang)
Dolsot bibimbap in a hot stone bowl (rice + beef + vegetables + raw egg yolk + gochujang)
Tofu instead of beef
Tofu bibimbap (rice + tofu + vegetables + fried egg + gochujang)
Tofu bibimbap (rice + tofu + vegetables + fried egg + gochujang)
Homemade, half a cup of rice
Homemade bibimbap (half a cup of rice + 100g lean beef + lots of vegetables + 1 egg + 1 teaspoon sesame oil + gochujang)
Homemade bibimbap (half a cup of rice + 100g lean beef + lots of vegetables + 1 egg + 1 teaspoon sesame oil + gochujang)
What moves the number
In the restaurant bowl, the rice and the bulgogi are almost two thirds of it. All the vegetables together are about 40 kcal.
Where these numbers come from
Each meal above was typed into Kallo once, on November 1, 2026. Kallo split it into ingredients, estimated the grams, and took calories and macros from USDA FoodData Central, FAO/INFOODS, and Vietnam’s National Institute of Nutrition.
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Type yours the way you would say it, like “bibimbap, half rice, extra vegetables, one egg”, and Kallo works out the rest.