Indian food calories
Calories in Rice (white, boiled) (चावल)
1 katori cooked rice (150 g) of rice (white, boiled) has about 195 kcal. Per 100 g it provides 130 kcal, 2.7 g protein, 28 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat.
| Portion | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 katori cooked rice (150 g) | 150 g | 195 kcal |
| 1 cup (180 g) | 180 g | 235 kcal |
| 1 heaped plate serving (250 g) | 250 g | 325 kcal |
Macros per 100 g
| Energy | 130 kcal |
| Protein | 2.7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 28 g |
| Fat | 0.3 g |
| Fibre | 0.4 g |
What changes the number
Rice is not the problem people think it is — 150 g of cooked rice is under 200 kcal, less than two rotis. The problem is that rice is served by volume, not weight, and a restaurant plate is routinely 250–300 g. Cooked weight also hides the real portion: 100 g of raw rice becomes roughly 300 g cooked. Cooling and reheating rice raises its resistant starch a little, which modestly blunts the glucose response, but the calorie figure does not change.
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Where this number comes from
Primary source: MetaFit Indian Curated v1.0, entry plain_rice (Boiled and drained; raw rice roughly triples in weight.) — the same dataset the MetaFit app logs against. Checked by MetaFit Nutrition Team on 2026-09-22.
Cross-checked against USDA FoodData Central (Rice, white, medium-grain, cooked, unenriched), which gives 130 kcal per 100 g — effectively the same figure.
Home recipes vary, especially in oil and ghee.