--- title: IHOP's Free Pancake Day: Their Least Healthiest Pancakes description: Check out how the short stack stacks up before you celebrate National Pancake Day canonical: https://time.com/12345/ihops-least-healthiest-pancakes/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-04T17:52:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:34:12.921Z article:section: Health og:title: IHOP's Free Pancake Day: Their Least Healthiest Pancakes og:description: Check out how the short stack stacks up before you celebrate National Pancake Day og:url: https://time.com/12345/ihops-least-healthiest-pancakes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6c3898ba0754f53/698683e1361760082790abc4/75435258-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: IHOP To Buy Applebees Chain For $1.9 Billion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: IHOP's Free Pancake Day: Their Least Healthiest Pancakes twitter:description: Check out how the short stack stacks up before you celebrate National Pancake Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6c3898ba0754f53/698683e1361760082790abc4/75435258-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # IHOP's Least Healthiest Pancakes > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) ELGIN, IL - JULY 16: Signs mark the locations of neighboring IHOP and Applebee's restaurants July 16, 2007 in Elgin, Illinois. IHOP has agreed to purchase the Applebee's restaurant chain for about $2 billion. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 4, 2014 5:52 PM UTC It’s National Pancake Day, which means free buttermilk pancakes at IHOP. If you’re watching your figure, pancakes aren’t exactly the go-to for a well-balanced breakfast. But you may be surprised which pancakes are more caloric. Those Harvest Grain ‘N Nut pancakes aren’t necessarily better for you than buttermilk. And, unsurprisingly, you should probably stay away from the NY Cheesecake pancakes. Here are IHOP’s World Famous Pancakes ranked from worst to sort-of-better-for-you (serving size, 4 pancakes): NY Cheesecake: 1100 calories Cinn-A-Stacks®: 890 calories Strawberry Banana: 760 calories Harvest Grain ‘N Nut® w/Blueberry: 740 calories Harvest Grain ‘N Nut® w/Cinnamon Apple: 730 calories Harvest Grain ‘N Nut® w/Strawberry: 730 calories Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Cakes: 720 calories Chocolate Chip, Buttermilk Cakes: 710 calories Double Blueberry: 690 calories Harvest Grain ‘N Nut® w/Butter: 680 calories Harvest Grain ‘N Nut® w/o Topping: 640 calories Original Buttermilk: around 600 calories (servings at IHOP are three or five pancakes) Whole Wheat w/Bananas: 570 calories ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/12345/ihops-least-healthiest-pancakes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/12345/ihops-least-healthiest-pancakes/"},"headline":"IHOP's Least Healthiest Pancakes","datePublished":"2014-03-04T17:52:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:34:12.921Z","description":"Check out how the short stack stacks up before you celebrate National Pancake Day","url":"https://time.com/12345/ihops-least-healthiest-pancakes/","keywords":["Food & Drink","Diet & Fitness","IHOP","Pancakes"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6c3898ba0754f53/698683e1361760082790abc4/75435258-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6c3898ba0754f53/698683e1361760082790abc4/75435258-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"IHOP To Buy Applebees Chain For $1.9 Billion","caption":"IHOP To Buy Applebees Chain For $1.9 Billion","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/food-drink/","name":"Food & Drink"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/12345/ihops-least-healthiest-pancakes/","name":"IHOP's Least Healthiest Pancakes"}}]}] ```