Black Rice vs Quinoa: All Nutritional Differences

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Less Calories in Black rice

At first glance, you can see that in black rice is just a little less calories than in quinoa.

Black rice has 356 kcal per 100g and quinoa 368 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 3%.

In black rice and in quinoa most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare black rice with quinoa in details.

Black rice And Quinoa Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  quinoa - 3% more than black rice
• Carbohydrates:
  black rice - 18% more than quinoa
• Fat:
  quinoa - 82% more than black rice
• Dietary fiber:
  quinoa - 218% more than black rice
• Protein:
  quinoa - 59% more than black rice

Less protein in black rice

It is aslo easy to see see that in black rice is less protein than in quinoa.

There is 14.12g per 100g of quinoa and 8.89g per 100g of black rice so using simple math we can see that difference is about 59%.

More carbohydrates in black rice

In black rice is more carbohydrates than in quinoa.

There is 64.16g/100g of carbohydrates in quinoa and 75.56g/100g in black rice so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 18%.

Less fat in black rice

In black rice is less fats than in quinoa.

The tables above show us that there is 6.07g/100g of fats in quinoa and 3.33g/100g in black rice. In this case difference is about 82%.