Calories in black-eyed peas (cowpeas)

Cooked, boiled, without salt. 116 kcal (485 kJ) per 100 g. Choose a portion below and every figure on the page updates.

Black-eyed peas, a type of cowpeas, are legumes with 116 kcal (485 kJ) per 100 g when boiled. Their energy comes mainly from starch and protein, with almost no fat. They are especially high in folate and fibre: a cup of cooked peas provides close to 90% of the Daily Value for folate and about 40% for fibre.

Where the energy comes from

Share of total energy contributed by each macronutrient, using the standard 4/4/9 kcal per gram factors:

Things worth knowing

• A cup of cooked black-eyed peas (171 g) has about 198 kcal (830 kJ), 13 g of protein and 11 g of fibre. Half a cup has about 100 kcal (417 kJ).
• Dried black-eyed peas have about 336 kcal per 100 g. They roughly triple in weight when cooked, which is why the boiled figure is so much lower.
• Canned black-eyed peas have about 77 kcal per 100 g but around 293 mg of sodium, compared with about 4 mg for peas boiled without salt. Rinsing removes some of the salt.
• In the southern United States they are the traditional New Year's dish, often cooked with pork as Hoppin' John. A cup also provides about 4.3 mg of iron (24% DV).

Converting these figures

One 1 cup, cooked of black-eyed peas is 198 kcal, which is 830 kJ. To convert any other figure, divide kilojoules by 4.184 for calories, or use the converter on the home page.

It takes 206 g of black-eyed peas to reach 1,000 kJ (239 kcal). See how that compares with other foods on the 1000 kJ to calories page.