Key facts
- Food.name
- Crouton
- Food.image
- Croutons on a salad.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Close-up of croutons on a salad
- Food.country
- France
- Food.creator
- <!-- or
- Food.creators
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- Food.main_ingredient
- Bread, oil or butter, seasonings
- Food.serving_size
- 100 g
- Food.calories
- 420
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Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 95 products
dNutri-Score
4NOVA · Ultra-processed food
- Energy
- 463 kcal
- Fat
- 17.5 g
- — of which saturates
- 3.3 g
- Carbohydrates
- 62.9 g
- — of which sugars
- 3.6 g
- Fibre
- 3.9 g
- Protein
- 11.2 g
- Salt
- 1.61 g
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thumb|Croutons atop a salad
A crouton () is a piece of toasted or fried bread, normally cubed and seasoned. Croutons are used to add texture and flavor to salads—notably the Caesar salad—as an accompaniment to soups and stews, or eaten as a snack food.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “crouton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.