Calories in Cucumber, Snake Gourd, Kovai, Zucchini

By NYUS Inc. · Published 29 October 2026

"Cucumber calories per 100 g", "kheera calories", "snake gourd calories", "tindora calories" and "zucchini calories" are all searched in India. This guide gives five rows from the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017, ICMR-NIN) Table 1, all raw and per 100 g: two cucumbers (green short and orange round), small kovai (the ivy gourd, also sold as tindora), short snake gourd and green zucchini. Five more IFCT rows for the same four vegetables (green elongate cucumber, big kovai, two long snake gourds and yellow zucchini) are named on our other pages and are not repeated. Salad cucumber from the USDA table is in our tomato, onion, cucumber and carrot salad guide, parwal, tinda and kundru in our parwal, tinda and kundru guide, zucchini and squash in our zucchini and squash guide and karela, lauki and turai in our karela, lauki and turai guide.

The short answer

By IFCT 2017, raw green short cucumber is 73 kJ per 100 g, which is 17 kcal, and orange round cucumber 82 kJ, 20 kcal; small kovai is 80 kJ, 19 kcal; short snake gourd 61 kJ, 15 kcal; and green zucchini 84 kJ, 20 kcal. 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 five rows are within 5 kcal of each other per 100 g, from 15 kcal (snake gourd) to 20 kcal (zucchini and orange cucumber), and the snake gourd row also has the most moisture (94.35 g); what changes a raita or a sabzi is the curd, oil and masala, 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 these vegetables, raw

Shops sell vegetables 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 vegetable with peel, stalk or seeds weighs more than the edible portion, and we do not say by how much. None is a cooked dish, a raita or a salad.

The weight sums: D044 73 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 17.4474, so 17.4 kcal; D044 73 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 43.6185, so 43.6 kcal; D044 73 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 87.2371, so 87.2 kcal; D045 82 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 19.5985, so 19.6 kcal; D045 82 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 48.9962, so 49.0 kcal; D045 82 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 97.9924, so 98.0 kcal; D055 80 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 19.1205, so 19.1 kcal; D055 80 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 47.8011, so 47.8 kcal; D055 80 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 95.6023, so 95.6 kcal; D072 61 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 14.5793, so 14.6 kcal; D072 61 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 36.4484, so 36.4 kcal; D072 61 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 72.8967, so 72.9 kcal; D077 84 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 20.0765, so 20.1 kcal; D077 84 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 50.1912, so 50.2 kcal; D077 84 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 100.3824, so 100.4 kcal.

What stands out in the numbers

• Energy per 100 g, highest first: D077 (Zucchini, green) 84 kJ = 20 kcal, D045 (Cucumber, orange, round) 82 kJ = 20 kcal, D055 (Kovai, small) 80 kJ = 19 kcal, D044 (Cucumber, green, short) 73 kJ = 17 kcal, D072 (Snake gourd, short) 61 kJ = 15 kcal.
• Available carbohydrate per 100 g, highest first: D045 3.01 g, D044 2.82 g, D055 2.41 g, D077 2.33 g, D072 2.15 g.
• Regions averaged per row: D044 6, D045 2, D055 1, D072 1, D077 2.
• Rows to check by hand: the orange round cucumber (D045) prints the highest carbohydrate (3.01 g) and 2 regions, the small kovai (D055) the highest protein (1.22 g) and fibre (3.25 g) and 1 region, and the short snake gourd (D072) the lowest energy (61 kJ) and 1 region; we show them as printed and do not adjust them.

Why these are reference rows, not your vegetable

• Names are IFCT's. The row names are the IFCT 2017 names with the scientific name; tindora and ivy gourd are other names for kovai (Coccinia cordifolia), and kheera is the Hindi name for cucumber. We do not say which row matches the vegetable sold in your market.
• Region averages differ. The rows average 6, 2, 1, 1 and 2 regions, so they are not on the same footing and are not a national average.
• Raw only. IFCT has no cooked row for these vegetables. A sabzi, a fry, a raita or a salad adds oil, curd, salt or masala, which this page does not give.
• Edible portion. IFCT figures are per 100 g of edible portion, not of the vegetable 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 vegetable, and say raw. 100 g of raw green short cucumber (our example weight, not an IFCT value) on IFCT D044 is 73 × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 17.4, so 17.4 kcal.
• Add the rest separately. Oil, ghee and sugar are in our ghee, oil and sugar guide, and curd in our curd guide.
• Do not mix datasets inside one day. If you log cucumber from IFCT, keep to that row for the same meal rather than switching to a USDA cucumber row.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

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What this page leaves out

• A calorie target, and any claim about what these vegetables do 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.
• Cucumber raita, kheera salad, snake gourd sabzi, tindora fry, zucchini dishes and any restaurant or maker's version: no row used here.
• The other IFCT 2017 rows for these vegetables are cucumber green elongate (D043), kovai big (D054), snake gourd long (D070, D071) and zucchini yellow (D078); they are left out because our other pages already name them, which makes the list of rows for these four vegetables complete at 10, 5 used here and 5 left out.
• Other IFCT vegetables (ridge gourd, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, pumpkin, tinda and the rest) and USDA cucumber, zucchini and squash records: 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 D044, D045, D055, D072, D077 (PDF pages 47 to 49); 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 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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