Wild Rice: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Wild rice: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in wild rice?

In this article:

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

100g of wild rice has about 357 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | standard serving size | tablespoon | cup | half cup

To illustrate, standard serving size (0,5 cup) of wild rice (100 g) has about 357 calories.

It is about 15% 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 standard serving size of wild rice is similar to calories amount from ie.:

6.5 apples
4.5 glasses of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
3.5 slices of cheese
3 slices of bread
2.5 glasses of milk
18.5 cubes of sugar

For burning such amount of calories you would have to bike at least 51 minutes, swim for about 42 minutes or run for 36 minutes.

Calories In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

See all nutrition data of wild rice on charts.

Wild rice: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories357kcal/100g(101 kcal/oz)

Carbs74.9g/100g(21.2 g/oz)

Protein14.7g/100g(4.2 g/oz)

Fat1.1g/100g(0.3 g/oz)

How many calories in standard serving size, tablespoon, cup or half cup of wild rice?

As I wrote before 100g has 357 calories. It is also easy to count how many calories will be in ie. standard serving size, tablespoon, cup or half cup of wild rice.

Standard serving size (0,5 cup) of wild rice (100 g)357 kcal
Tablespoon of wild rice (15g)54 kcal
Cup of wild rice (200g)714 kcal
Half cup of wild rice (100g)357 kcal
Ounce (oz) of wild rice101 kcal
10g of wild rice36 kcal
20g of wild rice71 kcal
50g of wild rice179 kcal
100g of wild rice357 kcal

Protein in wild rice

Wild rice has 14.73 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of standard serving size (0,5 cup) of wild rice (100 g) you can see that you will get about 14.7 g of protein.

Carbs in wild rice

Wild rice has 74.9 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that standard serving size (0,5 cup) of wild rice (100 g) has about 74.9 g of carbs.

Fat in wild rice

Wild rice has 1.08 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that standard serving size (0,5 cup) of wild rice (100 g) has about 1.1 g of fat.

standard serving size (0,5 cup) of wild rice (100 g) has:

357kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike51 min.Bike

Horse ride66 min.Horse ride

Play tennis35 min.Tennis

Run36 min.Run

Swim42 min.Swim

wild rice - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A19 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.115 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.262 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)6.733 mg
Vitaminium B60.391 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.095 mcg
Vitaminium E0.82 mg
Vitaminium K0.002 mg

Energy content of wild rice

81% CARBS
16% PROTEIN
3% FAT

wild rice - minerals per 100g

Potassium427 mg
Magnessium177 mg
Calcium21 mg
Sodium7 mg
Iron1.96 mg

Does wild rice cause weight gain? How it affects your diet?

Wild rice have one of the hight count of calories within grain products. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific grain products, wild rice seems to be a bad choice. It is easy to find something better among other grain products.

Really hard to find higher calories count in grain products. Similar energy amount have only such products as angel hair pasta, barley or udon noodles.

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

Interesting charts - compare wild rice with other grain products

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

Fiber In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

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Iron In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Magnesium In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Potassium In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Protein In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Sodium In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

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Vitamin B1 In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B2 In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B6 In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin E In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Water In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

Carbohydrates In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

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Calcium In Wild Rice Based On Grain Products Category

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Marcin Piotrowicz

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Promoter of a healthy eating and living style

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