Sugar, butter, and milk cooked to soft-ball stage make fudge dense. Bowl and serving-size illusions cause 20–30% over-serving for sweet foods (Wansink, Am J Prev Med 2006). Vanilla fudge runs 383 kcal, 5.5 g fat, and 79.8 g sugar per 100 g. A 25 g cube is ~95.8 kcal.
How should I track Fudge, vanilla, homemade?
The trickiest part about tracking Fudge, vanilla, homemade is that small portions pack a lot of calories, and most people estimate sweet portions poorly. Research (Almiron-Roig et al., Appetite 2013) found that calorie-dense foods are underestimated by 50–200% when portioned by eye. Weighing on a scale takes the guesswork out. And here is the mindset shift that helps: tracking sweets is not about guilt. It is about awareness. When you log a treat honestly, you can plan around it and still hit your targets for the day.