How many kilojoules are in a bacon and egg roll?
A classic cafe bacon and egg roll (white roll, two rashers of bacon, a fried egg, butter and BBQ sauce) is about 2,250 kJ (540 Cal). A lighter English-muffin build with one bacon is near 1,400 kJ, and "the lot" with cheese and a hash brown pushes past 3,000 kJ. The bread and the butter are the quiet half of the number.
Key numbers
- classic cafe bacon and egg roll
- 2,250 kJ (540 Cal)
- 1,400 kJ lighter muffin build
- 3,000 kJ the lot
- ~25 g protein
By what is in it
| Item | Per 100 g | Serve | Energy | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White bakery roll | 1,100 kJ/100 g | 90 g | 990 kJ | 237 Cal |
| Middle bacon, grilled | 1,150 kJ/100 g | 50 g (2 rashers) | 580 kJ | 139 Cal |
| Fried egg | 800 kJ/100 g | 50 g (1 egg) | 400 kJ | 96 Cal |
| Butter | 3,000 kJ/100 g | 5 g (1 tsp) | 150 kJ | 36 Cal |
| BBQ sauce | 650 kJ/100 g | 20 g (1 tbsp) | 130 kJ | 31 Cal |
By how it is built
| How it is eaten | Energy | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light (English muffin, 1 bacon, 1 egg, sauce) | 1,400 kJ | 335 Cal | ~22 g |
| Classic cafe (roll, 2 bacon, egg, butter, sauce) | 2,250 kJ | 540 Cal | ~25 g |
| With a cheese slice | 2,600 kJ | 622 Cal | ~30 g |
| The lot (roll, bacon, egg, cheese, hash brown, sauce) | 3,100 kJ | 741 Cal | ~32 g |
The thing most people get wrong
A bacon and egg roll feels like a protein breakfast, and the bacon and egg do bring about 25 g of it. But they are under half of the kilojoules. The white roll and the butter are the quiet half, around 1,140 kJ before anything is cooked, and a hash brown adds roughly 650 kJ for almost no protein. Swapping the roll for an English muffin and dropping the butter is the single biggest cut, worth about 850 kJ, and it keeps the protein.
A classic roll at 2,250 kJ is about 26% of an 8,700 kJ day. Tomato sauce instead of BBQ saves only about 20 kJ, so the sauce is never the problem.
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Common questions
How many calories in a bacon and egg roll?
About 540 Cal (2,250 kJ) for a classic cafe build with a white roll, two rashers of bacon, a fried egg, butter and sauce.
Is a bacon and egg roll high in protein?
It carries about 25 g of protein, but the roll, butter and sauce are more than half the kilojoules. A muffin build with one bacon keeps most of the protein for about 1,400 kJ.
Bacon and egg roll or a McMuffin?
A Bacon & Egg McMuffin is about 1,211 kJ. A cafe roll uses a bigger bread and adds butter, so it runs roughly double at around 2,250 kJ.
What adds the most kilojoules?
The bread and the butter first, then a hash brown if you add one at about 650 kJ. Cheese adds roughly 350 kJ for a slice.
Does the sauce matter?
Barely. BBQ sauce is about 130 kJ a tablespoon and tomato sauce about 110 kJ, so the choice is worth around 20 kJ.
Keep reading
Citing this page. OzCal (2026). "Bacon and Egg Roll Kilojoules: The Cafe Classic in kJ | OzCal". Retrieved from https://ozcal.com.au/kilojoules/bacon-and-egg-roll. Last updated 2026-10-13. Figures are per the serve stated in each row, converted at 1 Cal = 4.184 kJ. A plain-text version of this page is available at https://ozcal.com.au/kilojoules/bacon-and-egg-roll.md.