The nutrition and calories in Indian pickles, snacks, pappadums and rice preparations, depend on the way the foods are cooked. As a general rule Indian pickles and pappadums are high sodium foods while Indian snacks may be high in calories from fat. However, if you bake the snacks, then you can cut off much of the fat like in baked samosa that produce tasty samosa with very less fat and keeping the natural nutrition values and low calories.
Nutrition and calories in Indian Snacks
The data have been compiled from the sites of the food manufacturers or in some cases from the food packets. The table gives the data for Indian rice, snacks like samosa, Indian pickles, pappadums, chutneys and Indian ready to serve meals. The nutrition of Indian snacks are given.
Calories in Indian Foods | Calories in Roti, Paratha | Calories in Indian Vegetable Curries | Calories in Indian Snacks | Nutrition of Haldiram foods
In the following table "-" means that data are not available.
The table below lists the nutrion values including total fat, carbohydrates, calories, and proteins of Indian ready made snacks, rice preparations and pickles, etc. from different makes like Patak, Serenna, Tastybite, Vadilal, Ashoka, Sainsbury, Loyd Grossman and Go Organic.
Nutrition in Indian Meat Curries
The nutritional data on Indian meat curries have been compiled from the sites of the Indian meat curry manufacturers or in some cases from the food packets.
The table gives the data for Chicken Tikka, Breast Pieces, Chicken Korma, Chicken Roganjosh, Chicken Vindaloo, Tikka Masala, Tikka Masala Curry Sauce, Korma Curry Sauce, Rogan Josh Red Wine, Rogan Josh Curry Sauce and Saffron Tikka Masala.
In the following table "-" means that data are not available.
Punjabi samosa* | Vadilal | 70 | 188 | 4.4 | 24.9 | 7.9 | 1.9 | 0.26 |
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Mango Lassi | Home made | 250ml | 85 | 3.6 | 16.4 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
*The Punjabi samosas from Vadilal are too hot (too much chili) so buy it if you can tolerate too much chili.
The authors bought Vadilal Samosa Box of 25 in Australia, but it contained only 22! Vadilal did not bother to reply to the complaint.