Calories in Dry Field Beans (Sem) and Ricebean: IFCT

By NYUS Inc. · Published 29 October 2026

"Field beans calories per 100 g", "sem ki phali calories" and "rice bean calories" are searched in India. This guide gives the two matching rows from the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017, ICMR-NIN) Table 1: brown field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris, Sem in Hindi) and ricebean (Vigna umbellata), both raw dry seeds per 100 g, each a single-region row, with the Indian names IFCT prints. The white field bean row (B009) is named on our other pages and is not repeated. IFCT cannot answer the cooked, per cup, fresh sem ki phali pod, broad bean and curry questions, and this page gives no figure for them. Other whole legumes are in our whole legumes protein guide and in Hindi in our Hindi legumes protein guide, cooked dal and rajma in our cooked dal, rajma and chole guide, baked beans in our baked beans guide and green and French beans in our sweet corn and French beans guide.

The short answer

By IFCT 2017, dry brown field beans are 1184 kJ per 100 g, which is 283 kcal, and dry ricebean 1265 kJ, 302 kcal. IFCT prints energy in kJ only, so the kcal are our conversion (kJ divided by 4.184, rounded to a whole kcal). Both are dry seeds, with 8.74 g and 11.12 g of moisture per 100 g, so these are dry weights; IFCT prints no boiled row, so we give no cooked figure and do not use these rows for cooked beans. Our reading: ricebean is 81 kJ higher per 100 g and has more carbohydrate (51.26 against 45.24 g), the field bean has more fibre (22.40 against 13.37 g) and fat, and protein is almost the same (19.90 and 19.97 g).

IFCT 2017: per 100 g, dry and raw

Figures are as the IFCT 2017 PDF prints them (Table 1, PDF pages 42 and 43), 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. Both rows come from a single region. 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.

The local names IFCT prints in its appendix of food names (PDF pages 483 and 485): field bean, brown, Hindi Sem, Punjabi Sem dal, Gujarati Valpapdi, Marathi Papta, Kannada Avare, Malayalam Avar, Tamil Mochai, Telugu Chikkudu ginjalu, Bengali Shim, Odia Baragudi; ricebean (IFCT "Rice Bean"), Hindi Meth, Bengali Galmoong, Malayalam Kattuzhunnu, Manipuri Chakwai, Nepali Shiltong, Khasi Rymbai ja. IFCT prints Meth as the Hindi name of the ricebean row; fenugreek seeds are a different IFCT row (G026, Trigonella foenum graecum, PDF page 523) and are not covered here.

100 g, 250 g and 500 g of dry beans

Dry beans are sold 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 dry, raw weights; soaked or boiled beans weigh more and are not these rows. None is a curry or a cooked portion.

The weight sums: B008 1184 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 282.9828, so 283.0 kcal; B008 1184 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 707.4570, so 707.5 kcal; B008 1184 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 1414.9140, so 1414.9 kcal; B023 1265 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 302.3423, so 302.3 kcal; B023 1265 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 755.8556, so 755.9 kcal; B023 1265 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 1511.7113, so 1511.7 kcal.

What stands out in the numbers

• Energy per 100 g: B023 (Ricebean) 1265 kJ = 302 kcal, then B008 (Field bean, brown) 1184 kJ = 283 kcal.
• Rows to check by hand: the field bean prints 22.40 g of fibre and the ricebean 13.37 g; the ricebean prints 51.26 g of carbohydrate and 11.12 g of moisture against 45.24 g and 8.74 g; both are single-region rows. We show them as printed and do not adjust them.

Why these are reference rows, not your beans

• Names are IFCT's. The row names are the IFCT 2017 names with the scientific name, and the local names are those IFCT prints; we do not say which bean sold in your market matches which row. IFCT's Hindi name for the field bean row is Sem; the row is the dry seed, not the fresh sem ki phali pod.
• One region per row. Both rows come from a single region, so each is one sample set, not an Indian average.
• Dry only, no cooked figure. IFCT has no boiled, cooked or fresh-pod value for these beans and no cup or katori weight, so the common "cooked beans per 100 g", "per cup" and "sem ki phali" questions have no IFCT answer.
• Not broad beans. The field bean row is Phaseolus vulgaris and the ricebean row Vigna umbellata; broad beans (Vicia faba) are a different species and have no figure on this page.
• Energy is converted. IFCT prints kJ; kcal is our kJ / 4.184, rounded.

How to log it so the numbers hold

• Weigh the dry beans, and say dry. 100 g of dry brown field beans (our example weight, not an IFCT value) on IFCT B008 is 1184 × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 283.0, so 283.0 kcal; weigh cooked beans separately and log them under a cooked entry.
• 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 a bean from IFCT, keep to that row for the same meal rather than switching to a USDA row.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

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What this page leaves out

• A calorie target, and any claim about what these beans 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.
• Boiled or cooked beans, a cup or katori, fresh sem ki phali, broad beans, bean curries and any restaurant or maker's version: no figure given here.
• The other IFCT 2017 field bean row, white (B009), is left out because our other pages already name it, which makes the list of field bean and ricebean rows complete at 3, 2 used here and 1 left out.
• Rajma, chana, kidney, soybean and other whole legume rows and the USDA bean 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, row B008 (PDF page 42) and row B023 (PDF page 43); appendix of food names, B008 and B009 (PDF page 483) and B023 (PDF page 485); fenugreek seeds G026 (PDF page 523); 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 and the local names are exactly as printed in the IFCT 2017 PDF. The names in the first column are IFCT's own row names.

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