Calories in Brinjal (Baingan) per 100 g: IFCT 2017

By NYUS Inc. · Published 28 October 2026

"Brinjal calories per 100 g" has no single answer in the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017, ICMR-NIN): it lists 21 brinjal rows, numbered 1 to 21 with no variety or colour printed. This guide gives 19 of them (Brinjal-2 to Brinjal-20), raw and per 100 g, with the range, the protein, fat, fibre and carbohydrate they print, and a 100 g, 250 g and 500 g table. Brinjal-1 and Brinjal-21 are named on our other vegetable pages and are not repeated. Cooked brinjal from the USDA table is in our boiled bhindi, gobi, palak and baingan guide, a brinjal per piece in our potato, brinjal and bhindi per piece guide and other common Indian vegetables in our common Indian vegetables guide.

The short answer

By IFCT 2017, raw brinjal is 91 to 124 kJ per 100 g across the 19 rows, which is 22 to 30 kcal: the lowest is D026 (Brinjal 17) at 22 kcal and the highest D022 (Brinjal 13) at 30 kcal. Our unweighted mean of the 19 row energies is 105.1 kJ, 25.1 kcal (our arithmetic, not an IFCT figure). IFCT prints energy in kJ only, so the kcal are our conversion (kJ divided by 4.184, rounded to a whole kcal). Our reading: the rows are close, so for raw brinjal the choice of row moves the answer by at most 8 kcal per 100 g; what changes a baingan dish is the oil and the rest of the recipe, which no IFCT row includes.

IFCT 2017: per 100 g, raw

Figures are as the IFCT 2017 PDF prints them, per 100 g of edible portion: moisture, protein and total fat in g, total dietary fibre and available carbohydrate in g, and energy in kJ. Where a row averages several regions IFCT prints a mean with a spread; the table shows the mean. The kcal is our conversion. IFCT 2017 says all its data except poultry and egg is for raw food (PDF p. 27), so these are raw weights. IFCT prints no portion weights, so there is no printed-portion table on this page.

100 g, 250 g and 500 g of raw brinjal

Shops sell brinjal by 250 g and 500 g, which IFCT does not print. These three weights are ours: each cell is the IFCT kJ figure times the grams, divided by 100 and by 4.184, as kcal, with protein and fat as the IFCT per 100 g figure times the grams divided by 100, shown to 0.1 with half rounding up. They are raw edible portion; a whole brinjal with its cap and stalk weighs more than the edible portion, and we do not say by how much. None is a cooked baingan bharta, fry or curry.

The weight sums: D011 99 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 23.6616, so 23.7 kcal; D011 99 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 59.1539, so 59.2 kcal; D011 99 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 118.3078, so 118.3 kcal; D012 102 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 24.3786, so 24.4 kcal; D012 102 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 60.9465, so 60.9 kcal; D012 102 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 121.8929, so 121.9 kcal; D013 100 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 23.9006, so 23.9 kcal; D013 100 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 59.7514, so 59.8 kcal; D013 100 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 119.5029, so 119.5 kcal; D014 111 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 26.5296, so 26.5 kcal; D014 111 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 66.3241, so 66.3 kcal; D014 111 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 132.6482, so 132.6 kcal; D015 97 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 23.1836, so 23.2 kcal; D015 97 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 57.9589, so 58.0 kcal; D015 97 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 115.9178, so 115.9 kcal; D016 98 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 23.4226, so 23.4 kcal; D016 98 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 58.5564, so 58.6 kcal; D016 98 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 117.1128, so 117.1 kcal; D017 117 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 27.9637, so 28.0 kcal; D017 117 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 69.9092, so 69.9 kcal; D017 117 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 139.8184, so 139.8 kcal; D018 106 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 25.3346, so 25.3 kcal; D018 106 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 63.3365, so 63.3 kcal; D018 106 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 126.6730, so 126.7 kcal; D019 116 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 27.7247, so 27.7 kcal; D019 116 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 69.3117, so 69.3 kcal; D019 116 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 138.6233, so 138.6 kcal; D020 105 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 25.0956, so 25.1 kcal; D020 105 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 62.7390, so 62.7 kcal; D020 105 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 125.4780, so 125.5 kcal; D021 93 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 22.2275, so 22.2 kcal; D021 93 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 55.5688, so 55.6 kcal; D021 93 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 111.1377, so 111.1 kcal; D022 124 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 29.6367, so 29.6 kcal; D022 124 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 74.0918, so 74.1 kcal; D022 124 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 148.1836, so 148.2 kcal; D023 106 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 25.3346, so 25.3 kcal; D023 106 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 63.3365, so 63.3 kcal; D023 106 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 126.6730, so 126.7 kcal; D024 114 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 27.2467, so 27.2 kcal; D024 114 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 68.1166, so 68.1 kcal; D024 114 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 136.2333, so 136.2 kcal; D025 103 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 24.6176, so 24.6 kcal; D025 103 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 61.5440, so 61.5 kcal; D025 103 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 123.0880, so 123.1 kcal; D026 91 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 21.7495, so 21.7 kcal; D026 91 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 54.3738, so 54.4 kcal; D026 91 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 108.7476, so 108.7 kcal; D027 116 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 27.7247, so 27.7 kcal; D027 116 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 69.3117, so 69.3 kcal; D027 116 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 138.6233, so 138.6 kcal; D028 100 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 23.9006, so 23.9 kcal; D028 100 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 59.7514, so 59.8 kcal; D028 100 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 119.5029, so 119.5 kcal; D029 99 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 23.6616, so 23.7 kcal; D029 99 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 59.1539, so 59.2 kcal; D029 99 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 118.3078, so 118.3 kcal.

What stands out in the numbers

• Energy per 100 g, highest first: D022 (Brinjal 13) 124 kJ = 30 kcal, D017 (Brinjal 8) 117 kJ = 28 kcal, D027 (Brinjal 18) 116 kJ = 28 kcal, D019 (Brinjal 10) 116 kJ = 28 kcal, D024 (Brinjal 15) 114 kJ = 27 kcal, D014 (Brinjal 5) 111 kJ = 27 kcal, D023 (Brinjal 14) 106 kJ = 25 kcal, D018 (Brinjal 9) 106 kJ = 25 kcal, D020 (Brinjal 11) 105 kJ = 25 kcal, D025 (Brinjal 16) 103 kJ = 25 kcal, D012 (Brinjal 3) 102 kJ = 24 kcal, D028 (Brinjal 19) 100 kJ = 24 kcal, D013 (Brinjal 4) 100 kJ = 24 kcal, D029 (Brinjal 20) 99 kJ = 24 kcal, D011 (Brinjal 2) 99 kJ = 24 kcal, D016 (Brinjal 7) 98 kJ = 23 kcal, D015 (Brinjal 6) 97 kJ = 23 kcal, D021 (Brinjal 12) 93 kJ = 22 kcal, D026 (Brinjal 17) 91 kJ = 22 kcal.
• Available carbohydrate per 100 g, highest first: D022 4.51 g, D027 4.10 g, D019 4.08 g, D014 4.02 g, D024 3.96 g, D017 3.75 g, D020 3.53 g, D018 3.52 g, D025 3.46 g, D028 3.39 g, D012 3.38 g, D015 3.29 g, D023 3.27 g, D013 3.19 g, D029 3.15 g, D016 3.10 g, D026 2.89 g, D021 2.73 g, D011 2.71 g.
• Regions averaged per row: D011 1, D012 2, D013 4, D014 3, D015 2, D016 1, D017 3, D018 2, D019 2, D020 6, D021 2, D022 1, D023 3, D024 4, D025 1, D026 1, D027 3, D028 3, D029 5.
• Rows to check by hand: D022 prints the highest energy (124 kJ) and the highest carbohydrate (4.51 g) and is a single-region row; D026 prints the lowest energy (91 kJ) and is also a single-region row. We show them as printed and do not adjust them.

Why these are reference rows, not your brinjal

• The rows have no variety names. IFCT 2017 prints Brinjal-1 to Brinjal-21 with the species Solanum melongena and regional names only; we do not say which row is a round, long, purple, white or green brinjal.
• Region averages. 5 of the 19 rows come from one region and 14 are averages of 2 to 6 regions; the regions differ by row, so the rows are not a national average.
• Raw only. IFCT has no cooked brinjal row. A baingan bharta, a fry or a curry adds oil, onion and masala and changes the water, which this page does not give.
• Edible portion. IFCT figures are per 100 g of edible portion, not of the brinjal as bought.
• Energy is converted. IFCT prints kJ; kcal is our kJ / 4.184, rounded.

How to log it so the numbers hold

• Weigh the cleaned brinjal, and say raw. 100 g of raw brinjal on row D022 (our example weight, not an IFCT value) is 124 × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 29.6, so 29.6 kcal; on row D026 it is 21.7 kcal.
• Add the cooking separately. Oil, ghee and sugar are in our ghee, oil and sugar guide.
• Do not mix datasets inside one day. If you log brinjal from IFCT, keep to that row for the same meal rather than switching to a USDA eggplant row.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

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What this page leaves out

• A calorie target, and any claim about what brinjal does to your body: we have not looked up one for any person, so we give none. If you have a medical condition, ask your doctor or dietitian.
• Baingan bharta, bharwa baingan, fried brinjal, brinjal curry and any restaurant or maker's version: no row used here.
• The IFCT 2017 brinjal rows are D010 (Brinjal-1) to D030 (Brinjal-21), 21 rows in all; 19 are used here and D010 and D030 are left out because our other pages already name them.
• USDA eggplant records and the other IFCT vegetables: not covered here.
• Nutrients beyond energy, protein, fat, fibre, carbohydrate and the moisture IFCT prints: not covered here.

Sources

• Longvah T. et al., Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017), ICMR-NIN, Table 1 Proximate Principles and Dietary Fibre, rows D011, D012, D013, D014, D015, D016, D017, D018, D019, D020, D021, D022, D023, D024, D025, D026, D027, D028, D029 (PDF pages 45 to 46); statement that all data except poultry and egg is for raw food, PDF p. 27 (read 29 Oct 2026).
• nyus.in, the NYUS landing page, read on 29 Oct 2026 for the app statements in the NYUS section and the CTA.

The kcal conversion (kJ / 4.184, whole kcal), the unweighted mean, the 100 g, 250 g and 500 g table, the sums, the rounding, the comparisons and every sentence starting "Our reading" are NYUS's own arithmetic or opinion, not from IFCT. The moisture, protein, fat, fibre, carbohydrate and kJ values are exactly as printed in the IFCT 2017 PDF (means for multi-region rows). The names in the first column are IFCT's own row names.

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