Plain lobster meat is surprisingly lean — 89 calories per 100g with 19g of protein and almost no fat. The reason it gets a high-calorie reputation is the butter. A bare-naked tail is closer to 70 calories; dunking it doubles or triples the count.
Calories scale with portion. Here's how a typical lobster serving translates in your tracker:
Protein-dense — 21.3 g of protein per 100 kcal makes lobster an efficient choice for hitting a protein target while managing calories.
Point your iPhone camera at lobster and Spotwell's on-device AI estimates the portion and macros in under a second — no manual entry, no barcode hunting.
Download on theApp StoreLobster has approximately 89 calories per 100g. A typical serving — 1 cup, cooked (145g) — comes in at 129 calories.
19g of protein per 100g. That puts lobster at roughly 21.3g of protein per 100 calories — a useful lens when comparing to other protein sources.
The simplest method: weigh it on a kitchen scale, then enter grams in your tracker. With Spotwell, you can skip the scale — point the camera at the plate and the AI estimates the portion in under a second. Adjust the value if it looks off.
It depends on your overall calorie target. Lobster is naturally low-calorie at 89 kcal per 100g, so it's easy to fit into a deficit.