How Many Calories in an Ahi Tuna?

Pokeworks Nutrition Calculator: The Short Answer

The Ahi Tuna vs the Rest of the Pokeworks Menu

Same kitchen, very different numbers. Here is the Ahi Tuna next to the items people most often swap it with — or should.

What Pushes the Number Up (and Down)

At Pokeworks, the headline item is rarely the whole story: sauces, cheese, larger sizes and the side you add by habit regularly contribute as much as the main itself. The Hawaiian Sun Drink alone carries 33g of sugar, and the Miso Soup (cup) carries 4050mg of sodium — either can quietly turn a reasonable order into the heaviest one of your day.

The reliable way to know your real total is to build the exact order — main, side, drink and sauce — in the Pokeworks calculator before you pay. Thirty seconds there replaces the guesswork that makes published "typical meal" figures so unreliable.

• Lightest item on the menu: Edamame (serving) — 25 calories
• Heaviest item on the menu: Sushi Rice (regular base) — 290 calories
• Best protein per calorie: Ahi Tuna (protein scoop) — 20g per 100 calories

What One Ahi Tuna Does to Your Day

Set against the standard 2,000-calorie reference day, one Ahi Tuna (protein scoop) uses 4% of the day's calories, 28% of the protein target, 0% of the carb allowance and 1% of the fat budget. Its 320mg of sodium is 14% of the 2,300mg daily guideline — the figure that most often surprises people, because sodium concentrates in restaurant food far faster than calories do.

None of those percentages is a verdict on its own. A Ahi Tuna at 4% of the day's calories can be a sensible meal anchor; the same item plus a large side and a sweetened drink can quietly pass 60% of the day before dinner. The calculator's daily-value bars exist for exactly this check: build the whole order, not just the headline item, and read the day you are actually committing to.

• Ahi Tuna (protein scoop): 70 cal · 14g protein · 1g carbs · 1g fat
• Sodium: 320mg (14% of the daily guideline)
• Sugar: 0g of the 50g daily value · Fibre: 0g of 28g

A Worked Pokeworks Meal Under 550 Calories

Numbers are easier to act on as a meal than as a ranking. This build starts from the Ahi Tuna (protein scoop) — the menu's best protein-per-calorie item — and adds the lightest items that still fit under 550 calories. Every figure is summed from the same items the Pokeworks calculator lists, so you can rebuild it exactly and adjust it to your own order.

The finished build totals 130 calories with 19g of protein, 9g of carbs, 2g of fat and 380mg of sodium. Swap any line for a favourite and re-run the total before you order: one richer side or sauce is usually the difference between this build and one several hundred calories heavier, and it is far easier to make that trade on screen than at the counter.

The Full Nutrition Profile of the Ahi Tuna

Here is the complete panel for the Ahi Tuna (protein scoop), exactly as the Pokeworks calculator carries it, with each nutrient also expressed as a percentage of its daily value on a 2,000-calorie reference diet. Read down the percentage column rather than the grams: it is the fastest way to see which nutrient this item is really about. For the Ahi Tuna, the standout is protein, at 28% of a full day in a single item.

Two cautions belong with any single-item panel. First, published values describe the standard build — your portion, your sauce quantity and your size can move every line. Second, percentages are shares of a whole day, not grades: an item at 45% of the day's sodium is a problem only in the context of what else the day holds, which is why the calculator totals the full order rather than judging items one at a time.

Where This Answer Sits on the Whole Pokeworks Menu

Zoom out and the Pokeworks menu tracked here spans 17 items across 5 categories, from the Edamame (serving) at 25 calories to the Sushi Rice (regular base) at 290 — a 12-fold spread inside one restaurant. The average item is about 106 calories, 0 items pass 700 calories, and 17 of 17 sit under 500. Any single number quoted from this menu means little until it is placed inside that spread.

That spread is also the opportunity. A menu this wide almost always contains a build for the goal you actually have — the protein target, the sodium ceiling, the 500-calorie lunch — provided the order is assembled deliberately rather than inherited from habit. The rankings in this article are the map; the calculator is where you test the route before you travel it.

• Menu range: 25 cal (Edamame (serving)) to 290 cal (Sushi Rice (regular base))
• 17 items under 300 calories · 17 under 500 · average 106
• Most protein-dense: Ahi Tuna (protein scoop) at 20g protein per 100 cal

The One Swap That Changes the Answer

If the Ahi Tuna (protein scoop) is your usual order and the numbers above are more than you wanted, the highest-value single change on this menu is the Edamame (serving): 25 calories against 70 (45 fewer), 3g of protein against 14g, and 0mg of sodium against 320mg (320mg less salt). One swap, repeated weekly, is worth more than a month of good intentions.

Not every swap has to be a downgrade in enjoyment: the pattern that works at Pokeworks is swapping the component, not the meal — the same style of order rebuilt around a lighter anchor, with the sauce, cheese or side demoted from default to deliberate. Price both versions in the calculator once and the better default usually picks itself.

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