Calories in white rice (jasmine, basmati)

Long-grain, cooked, unenriched. 130 kcal (544 kJ) per 100 g. Choose a portion below and every figure on the page updates.

Cooked white rice absorbs a large amount of water, which is why its calorie density is far lower than the dry grain most people picture. A cup of cooked rice weighs about 158 g and delivers roughly 205 kcal.

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

• Dry uncooked white rice is about 365 kcal per 100 g. It roughly triples in weight during cooking, which is where the 130 kcal per 100 g cooked figure comes from.
• Brown rice is nutritionally different but almost identical in calories: about 123 kcal per 100 g cooked, with roughly four times the fibre and much more magnesium and manganese.
• Cooking rice and then chilling it increases resistant starch, which modestly lowers the digestible energy and blunts the glycaemic response. Reheating retains much of that effect.
• Enriched white rice, standard in the United States, adds back iron, thiamin, niacin, and folic acid that milling removed.
• Jasmine rice and basmati rice are both long-grain white rices, so their cooked values are very close to the figures shown here. The difference between them is smaller than the effect of how much water the rice absorbs.

Converting these figures

One 1 cup, cooked of white rice is 205 kcal, which is 859 kJ. To convert any other figure, divide kilojoules by 4.184 for calories, or use the converter on the home page.

It takes 184 g of white rice to reach 1,000 kJ (239 kcal). See how that compares with other foods on the 1000 kJ to calories page.