Calories and Nutrition in Indian Pickles, Snacks, Pappadums

The calories and nutrition in Indian foods like pickles, snacks, pappadums and rice preparations, depend on the way the foods are cooked. As a general rule Indian pickles and pappadums are high in sodium while Indian snacks may be high in calories or energy. 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.

The table below lists the nutrion values (total fat, carbohydrates, calories, and proteins of Indian ready made rsnacks, rice preparations and pickles, etc. from different makes like Patak, Serenna, Tastybite, Vadilal, Ashoka, Sainsbury, Loyd Grossman, Homepride and Go Organic.

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, pappadums, Indian pickles, Indian chutneys and Indian ready to serve meals.

In the following table "-" means that data are not available.