Indian cuisine and the energy content of foods 

An underlying principle of every county of India is to feed the person’s full stomach. Every state has its exceptional dish about which you will hear at first when you land there. Contemplating these facts, we find it important to share the energy content of foods of the famous Indian dishes and balanced diet plan.

No matter which country or state you belong to, calorie intake varies with your age, gender, and physical activity you perform in a day.

A calorie is a unit to measure the energy. Regardless of the place you reside, within a healthy, balanced diet a man and woman need approximately 2,500kcal and 2,000kcal respectively.

The intake of food gets converted into energy. The assessment of how well the available food supplies or diets of populations (or even of individuals) satisfy these requirements require knowledge of the amounts of available energy in individual foods.

In general, the energy content of foods is calculated in the following way;

1. The basic components of food (protein, fat, carbohydrate,etc.)
2. Their quantity required to be converted to energy
3. Nutritional energy value: The total energy content of foods adding all components

Calculating the energy content of foods

Now as the world is increasingly becoming aware of healthy food habits and its impact on our daily lives, it becomes important to know how a particular food item has an impact on our body by thoroughly noting down the number of calories it imparts.

Which is your favorite Indian cuisine? Do you know about its calorie content? The following list of popular regional food items along with their calorie count will help you in doing so. Let us look at the customized intake across the regions.

Maharashtrian Diet

Gujarati Diet

Punjabi Diet

South Indian Diet

In the nutshell

The energy balance is achieved when the input (or dietary energy intake) is equal to the output (or energy expenditure). The energy content of foods and the approximate calories you should eat should be based on your height, weight, activity level, metabolic health, age, and gender.

All calorie values are approximate and may vary considerably from preparations to preparations, depending on the ingredients included. Use these figures as a guideline only when choosing a balanced diet plan and the energy requirement.