Calories and Nutrition in Indian Pickles, Snacks, Pappadums

Calories in Indian Pickles, Snacks, Pappadums

The calories and nutrition in Indian foods like pickles, snacks, pappadums and rice preparations, depend on the way the foods are cooked. As a general rule Indian pickles and pappadums are high in sodium while Indian snacks may be high in calories/energy (high calories from fat). However, if you bake the snacks, then you can cut off much of the fat like in baked samosa that produce tasty samosa with very less fat and keeping the natural nutrition values and low calories.

The table below lists the nutrion values (total fat, carbohydrates, calories, and proteins of Indian ready made rsnacks, rice preparations and pickles, etc. from different makes like Patak, Serenna, Tastybite, Vadilal, Ashoka, Sainsbury, Loyd Grossman, Homepride and Go Organic.

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The data have been compiled from the sites of the food manufacturers or in some cases from the food packets. The table gives the data for Indian rice, snacks like samosa, pappadums, Indian pickles, Indian chutneys and Indian ready to serve meals.

In the following table "-" means that data are not available.

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Rajbhog	Haldiram	100	187	39.7	38.5	18.5	4.0	nil
Aloo Lachha	Haldiram	100	555	6.7	48.6	37.0	1.5	-
Mango Lassi	Home made	250ml	85	3.6	16.4	1.1	0.9	0.2

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Indian foods from Patak, Serenna, Tastybite are available from Supermarkets while other makes like Haldiram, Ashoka and Vadilal are available from Indian grocery shops. Note the high number of calories in snacks like Haldiram's Khatta Meetha, Aloo Lachha & Bhujia. The Aloo Lachha contains 555 calories in 100 gram, out of which 326 calories from fat, i.e. 60% of total calories from fat. The packet does not tell how many calories comes from trans-fatty acids (Dalda, Rath), which are very bad for your health, worse than saturated fats.