Nutritional info on Android versions: KitKat has a lot of calories, Froyo was healthiest

People are always concerned about the SAR of phones and software bloat, but why isn’t anyone talking about how calorie dense modern operating systems have become? Android offers nothing but sweets!

To educate the public, we did some research on the various Android versions. This wasn’t as easy as it sounds since the names can be a bit vague. For example, “Android 9.0 Pie” doesn’t specify the flavor. Looking at official images though, it’s pretty clear that it is cherry pie. Note that the scoop of ice cream is optional, so we didn’t include it in the numbers below.

Portion sizes matter – one Donut has more calories than one Jelly Bean. But come on, who can eat just one Jelly Bean? To make things easier to compare, we’ve charted the calories per 100g of Android OS.

It’s clear that Froyo was the healthiest Android option, though we’re partial to Ice Cream Sandwich – we still miss the Holo flavor. The most recent Pie isn’t half bad either.

You can’t just look at calories to determine if a snack is healthy or not, so here’s more detailed nutrition info for Android.

Since Android is mostly built out of desserts and sweets, it’s no surprise that has a lot of carbs. Sugars mostly – Lollipop is almost 100% sugar! – but a good amount of flour too (e.g. Cupcake).

Even so, carbs aren’t the worst offender – fats have 9 kcal per gram, sugar only 4 kcal. And KitKat is 26% fat, followed closely by Donut at 25% fat. Unfortunately, Android 4.4 Kale Salad never took off, but we have high hopes for Android 10.0 Quinoa.

Join us again next time when we’ll plot the highest peaks of macOS releases. Maybe we can go on a hike to work off all those Android calories.

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