How many calories are in a cup of rice?
Typical googling tells me a cup of white rice has ~200 calories, but the bags of white rice I purchase tell me a quarter cup of dry rice has 150 calories (Jasmine, in this case, but others have been about the same), which would mean a cup would have 600 calories.
Which is it? And what's the reason for the discrepancy?
Best Answer
I’m afraid you may have misunderstood some results (or they were unclear in their descriptions).
A ballpark number for rice volume is that cooking white rice will give you about triple the dry rice volume.
So let’s look at your data: 1/4 cup of raw rice makes 3/4 cups of cooked rice. The calories don’t change, assuming that you add just water and don’t pour away a significant amount of starch. So you still have 150 kcal for 1/4 cup of dry or 3/4 cups of cooked rice.
If 3/4 cup cooked white rice has 150 kcal, one cup of cooked white rice is roughly 200 kcals - which is exactly what you found out.
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