In this paper, we consider the energy equality of the 3D Cauchy problem for the magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We show that if a very weak solution of MHD equations belongs to $L^{4}(0,\,T;L^{4}(\mathbb {R}^{3}))$, then it is actually in the Leray–Hopf class and therefore must satisfy the energy equality in the time interval $[0,\,T]$.