Cooked Quinoa: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Name: How many CALORIES in Cooked Quinoa? 2 things you should know
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Cooked quinoa: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in cooked quinoa?

In this article:

★ Calories
★ Nutrition
★ Calories per unit
★ Calories per ounce (oz)
★ Carbs
★ Fat
★ Protein

100g of cooked quinoa has about 120 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | standard serving size | tablespoon | half cup

For example, standard serving size (1 cup) of cooked quinoa (185 g) has about 222 calories.

It is about 9% of daily calories intake for adult person with medium weight and medium activity (for calculation we assumed 2400 kcal daily intake).

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To visualize how much it actualy is, take in mind that calories amount from standard serving size of cooked quinoa is similar to calories amount from ie.:

4 apples
2.5 glasses of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
2 slices of cheese
2 slices of bread
1.5 glasses of milk
11.5 cubes of sugar

For burning such amount of calories you have to bike at least 32 minutes, swim for about 26 minutes or run for 22 minutes.

Calories in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

See all nutrition data of cooked quinoa on charts.

Cooked quinoa: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories120kcal/100g(34 kcal/oz)

Carbs21.3g/100g(6 g/oz)

Protein4.4g/100g(1.2 g/oz)

Fat1.9g/100g(0.5 g/oz)

How many calories in standard serving size, tablespoon or half cup of cooked quinoa?

As I wrote before 100g has 120 calories. It is also easy to count how many calories will be in ie. standard serving size, tablespoon or half cup of cooked quinoa.

Standard serving size (1 cup) of cooked quinoa (185 g)222 kcal
Tablespoon of cooked quinoa (12g)14 kcal
Half cup of cooked quinoa (92.5g)111 kcal
Ounce (oz) of cooked quinoa34 kcal
10g of cooked quinoa12 kcal
20g of cooked quinoa24 kcal
50g of cooked quinoa60 kcal
100g of cooked quinoa120 kcal

Protein in cooked quinoa

Cooked quinoa has 4.4 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of standard serving size (1 cup) of cooked quinoa (185 g) you can see that you will get about 8.1 g of protein.

Carbs in cooked quinoa

Cooked quinoa has 21.3 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that standard serving size (1 cup) of cooked quinoa (185 g) has about 39.4 g of carbs.

Fat in cooked quinoa

Cooked quinoa has 1.92 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that standard serving size (1 cup) of cooked quinoa (185 g) has about 3.6 g of fat.

standard serving size (1 cup) of cooked quinoa (185 g) has:

222kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike32 min.Bike

Horse ride41 min.Horse ride

Play tennis22 min.Tennis

Run22 min.Run

Swim26 min.Swim

cooked quinoa - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A5 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.107 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.11 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)0.412 mg
Vitaminium B60.123 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.042 mcg
Vitaminium E0.63 mg

Energy content of cooked quinoa

71% CARBS
15% PROTEIN
14% FAT

cooked quinoa - minerals per 100g

Potassium172 mg
Magnessium64 mg
Calcium17 mg
Sodium7 mg
Iron1.49 mg

Does cooked quinoa cause weight gain? How it affects your diet?

Number of calories in cooked quinoa is one of the highest from all products in Cooked category. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific Cooked, cooked quinoa seems to be a bad choice. It is easy to find something better among other Cooked.

It is really much as for Cooked. Similar energy amount have only such products as poached eggs, cooked ground beef or cooked lentils.

You should consider that not only calories are important when you are on a diet. If cooked quinoa contains nutrition you need than maybe you should add it to your daily menu anyway?

Interesting charts - compare cooked quinoa with other Cooked

When you look at charts below you will see how cooked quinoa looks like in comparsion to other products from its category. When you click on selected product you will se detailed comparsion.

Fiber in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Fat in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Iron in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Magnesium in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Potassium in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Protein in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Sodium in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Sugar in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B1 in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B2 in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B6 in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin E in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Water in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Carbohydrates in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Calories in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Calcium in Cooked Quinoa Based On Cooked Category

Author of this page
Marcin Piotrowicz

calories-info.com creator
Healthy eating and living style promoter

All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.