Quinoa calories and nutrition analyse
Quinoa: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data
How many calories in quinoa?
100g of quinoa has about 368 calories (kcal).
To illustrate, handful of quinoa (35 g) has about 129 calories.
It is about 5% of daily calories intake for adult person with medium weight and medium activity (for calculation we assumed 2400 kcal daily intake).
To visualize how much it actualy is, take in mind that calories amount from handful of quinoa (35 g) is similar to calories amount from ie.:
- 2 apples
- 1.5 glasses of Coca Cola
- 1 slice of cheese
- 1 slice of bread
- 1 glass of milk
- 6.5 cubes of sugar
For burning such amount of calories you have to bike at least 18 minutes, swim for about 15 minutes or run for 13 minutes.
Calories in quinoa came from protein in 15%, from carbs in 70% and from fat in 15%.
See also: Vitamins and health benefits of quinoa.
Quinoa - calories and nutrition per 100g
Check compares of quinoa with other products from seeds category:
How many calories in handfull, tablespoon, glass of quinoa seeds?
As I wrote before 100g has 368 calories. It is also easy to count how many calories will be in ie. handfull, tablespoon, glass of quinoa.
- Handfull of quinoa seeds (35g)129 kcal
- Tablespoon of quinoa (15g)55 kcal
- Glass full of quinoa (180g)662 kcal
- 10g of quinoa37 kcal
- 20g of quinoa74 kcal
- 50g of quinoa184 kcal
- 100g of quinoa368 kcal
- 200g of quinoa736 kcal
- 500g of quinoa1840 kcal
How much protein in quinoa seeds?
Quinoa has 14.12 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of handful of quinoa (35 g) you can see that you will get about 4.9 g of protein.
How much carbs in quinoa?
Quinoa has 64.16 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that handful of quinoa (35 g) has about 22.5 g of carbs.
How much fat in quinoa?
Quinoa has 6.07 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that handful of quinoa (35 g) has about 2.1 g of fat.
Does quinoa cause weight gain? How it affects your diet?
Number of calories in quinoa is low in comparsion to other products from seeds category. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific seeds, quinoa seems to be a pretty good choice.
This is not many but you can easily find less calorific products. Less calories we can find in such seeds as .
Similar calories number have:
See also:
handful of quinoa (35 g) has:
129kcal For burning these calories you have to:
