Calories in Green Chilli (Hari Mirch) per 100 g: IFCT

By NYUS Inc. · Published 29 October 2026

"Green chilli calories per 100 g" and "hari mirch calories" are searched in India. The Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017, ICMR-NIN) list seven green chilli rows, numbered Chillies, green-1 to green-7, with no variety printed. This guide gives five of them (green-2 to green-6), raw and per 100 g, with the Hindi and other Indian names IFCT prints (Hara Mirchi in Hindi, Lila marcha in Gujarati, Pachhai milagai in Tamil, Pacchi Mirapakaya in Telugu), the range, the protein, fat, fibre and carbohydrate they print, and a 100 g, 250 g and 500 g table. Green-1 and green-7 are named on our other pages and are not repeated. IFCT prints no weight per chilli, so there is no "one hari mirch" figure. USDA green chilli, jalapeno and capsicum are in our capsicum and green chilli guide, onion, garlic and ginger in our onion, garlic, ginger, jeera and haldi guide and tomato, onion, garlic and ginger guide, and other vegetables in our common Indian vegetables guide.

The short answer

By IFCT 2017, raw green chilli is 167 to 190 kJ per 100 g across the five rows, which is 40 to 45 kcal: the lowest is G002 (Chillies, green-2) at 40 kcal and the highest G004 (Chillies, green-4) at 45 kcal; G003 is 40, G006 42 and G005 43 kcal. Our unweighted mean of the five row energies is 176.2 kJ, 42.1 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 five rows are within 5 kcal of each other per 100 g, and the row with the highest carbohydrate (G005, 6.64 g) is not the row with the highest energy; what changes a chilli dish is the oil, salt and masala, which no IFCT row includes.

IFCT 2017: per 100 g, raw

Figures are as the IFCT 2017 PDF prints them (Table 1, PDF page 53), 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. The local names IFCT prints in its appendix (PDF pages 519 and 520) for these rows are: Hindi Hara Mirchi; Gujarati Lila marcha (green-2, green-3 and green-6) or Vadhvani marcha (green-5); Kannada Hasi Menasinakayi; Malayalam Mulaku; Tamil Pachhai milagai; Telugu Pacchi Mirapakaya; and Sanskrit Marichika, Odia Kancha Lanka and Nepali Hariyo khursani.

100 g, 250 g and 500 g of raw green chilli

Chillies 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 raw edible portion; the stalk and any seeds you remove are not in these figures, and IFCT prints no yield for them. None is a fried, pickled or tadka chilli.

The weight sums: G002 167 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 39.9140, so 39.9 kcal; G002 167 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 99.7849, so 99.8 kcal; G002 167 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 199.5698, so 199.6 kcal; G003 169 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 40.3920, so 40.4 kcal; G003 169 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 100.9799, so 101.0 kcal; G003 169 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 201.9598, so 202.0 kcal; G004 190 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 45.4111, so 45.4 kcal; G004 190 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 113.5277, so 113.5 kcal; G004 190 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 227.0554, so 227.1 kcal; G005 180 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 43.0210, so 43.0 kcal; G005 180 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 107.5526, so 107.6 kcal; G005 180 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 215.1052, so 215.1 kcal; G006 175 kJ × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 41.8260, so 41.8 kcal; G006 175 kJ × 250 / 100 / 4.184 = 104.5650, so 104.6 kcal; G006 175 kJ × 500 / 100 / 4.184 = 209.1300, so 209.1 kcal.

What stands out in the numbers

• Energy per 100 g, highest first: G004 (Chillies, green-4) 190 kJ = 45 kcal, G005 (Chillies, green-5) 180 kJ = 43 kcal, G006 (Chillies, green-6) 175 kJ = 42 kcal, G003 (Chillies, green-3) 169 kJ = 40 kcal, G002 (Chillies, green-2) 167 kJ = 40 kcal.
• Available carbohydrate per 100 g, highest first: G005 6.64 g, G004 6.63 g, G006 5.31 g, G002 5.27 g, G003 5.23 g.
• Regions averaged per row: G002 3, G003 5, G004 3, G005 2, G006 1.
• Rows to check by hand: G005 prints the highest carbohydrate (6.64 g) and the lowest protein (2.01 g) and fibre (3.95 g); G006 prints the highest protein (3.01 g) and fibre (5.15 g) and is a single-region row; we show them as printed and do not adjust them.

Why these are reference rows, not your chilli

• The rows have no variety names. IFCT 2017 prints Chillies, green-1 to green-7 with the species Capsicum annum and local names only; we do not say which row is a long, small, thin or thick chilli.
• Region averages differ. The five rows average 3, 5, 3, 2 and 1 regions, so they are not on the same footing and are not a national average.
• Raw only, no per-chilli weight. IFCT has no cooked, fried, pickled or dried row for these chillies and prints no weight per chilli, so the common "one hari mirch" question has no IFCT answer.
• Edible portion. IFCT figures are per 100 g of edible portion, not of the chilli 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 chillies, and say raw. 100 g of raw green chilli (our example weight, not an IFCT value) on row G004 is 190 × 100 / 100 / 4.184 = 45.4, so 45.4 kcal; on row G002 it is 39.9 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 chilli 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 chilli 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.
• Hari mirch achar, fried or stuffed chilli, chilli powder and any restaurant or maker's version: no row used here.
• A per-chilli figure: IFCT prints no weight, so we give none.
• The IFCT 2017 green chilli rows are G001 to G007, seven in all; five are used here and G001 (Chillies, green-1) and G007 (Chillies, green-7) are left out because our other pages already name them.
• IFCT red chilli and dried chilli rows and the USDA green chilli 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 G002 to G006 (PDF page 53); appendix of food names, G002 to G006 (PDF pages 519 and 520); 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 and the local names 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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