Calories in Indian food
January 13, 2009
What you eat directly affects your health. To maintain a healthy body, you should have a balanced diet. For centuries, for many social, economic and traditional reasons, a traditional Indian diet has been mainly vegetarian, with a combination of rice, vegetables, spices, lentils, wheat etc. An Indian diet contains the basic nutrients and calorie requirement for a healthy individual.
An Indian diet is a combination of cereals, pulses, fruits, vegetables, millets, milk and milk products, meat and meat products, sugar, fat and fiber to give you a healthy diet. An Indian diet also provides you with the necessary calories, proteins, vitamins and minerals. The calorie intake has to be controlled and by knowing the calories present in various Indian foods, you can choose them accordingly in your diet.
Indian diets tend to contain more vegetables, less meat and fewer additives and packed and processed food. A study published by American Lung Association showed that Indian children in Briton, who lived on Indian diet, had less risk of Asthma and allergy, than children who ate western diet. An average Indian diet was found to be healthier than an average Western diet.
Because Indian food contains required calories for good health, the traditional Indian diet with the avoidance of sugar, is considered to be an ideal diet for diabetes.
Indian food calorie content
Starters Calories per typical servings
Cucumber raita 1tbsp 20
Tomato sambal 1 tbsp 20
Mango chutney 1 tbsp 60
Pappadam each 65
Lime pickle 1 tbsp 70
Onion bhaji each 190
Vegetable samosa each 260
Meat samosa each 320
Main courses
Tandoori chicken 300
Aloo gopi 330
Vegetable curry 350
Keema madras 450
Aloo saag 500
Beef madras 540
Vegetable biriyani 550
Lamp bhuna 680
Chiken tikka masala 680
Chikken curry 700
Rogan josh 700
Chicken dhansk 720
Beef keema 780
Chicken korma 870
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings; let food be your medicine: Hippocrates
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