Calories in 1 Potato, Brinjal, Bhindi, Karela, Lauki

By NYUS Inc. · Published 27 October 2026

One aloo in the sabzi, a brinjal for the bharta, ten bhindi, a karela, a slice of lauki, the juice of one lemon: vegetables are cooked and counted by the piece, but calorie lists give them per 100 g. This guide gives the calories, protein, fat, fibre and carbohydrate per 100 g for nine raw rows from the ICMR-NIN Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017), then turns them into a piece, a slice or a cup using weights that are ours.

The short answer

By IFCT 2017, the nine rows run from 11 kcal per 100 g (lauki, D007) to 70 kcal per 100 g (potato, F006). By our arithmetic, one medium potato of about 150 g is about 105 kcal, one medium brinjal of about 150 g is 38 kcal, ten bhindi pods of about 100 g are 27 kcal, one medium karela of about 100 g is 21 kcal and a 150 g serving of lauki is 16 kcal. Our reading: the potato is the only row here that is far above the others per gram, with about 2.5 to 3.5 times the calories per gram of the brinjal, bhindi or karela.

Calories, protein, fat, fibre and carbohydrate per 100 g

Each row is one IFCT 2017 Table 1 row, per 100 g edible portion as listed in the book, mean values as printed. Energy is the book's kilojoules divided by 4.184, to the nearest kcal. Fibre is total dietary fibre and carbohydrate is the book's available carbohydrate. Every row was measured in 6 regions. The values are for the raw vegetable; the lemon row is the juice, and Table 1 prints no fibre figure for it.

Per piece, slice or cup

The weights are ours, not from IFCT: they are grams of raw edible portion, after peeling and trimming, for a medium vegetable. A medium potato is about 150 g (the same weight as in our potato guide), a medium brinjal 150 g, ten bhindi pods 100 g, a medium karela 100 g, a medium turai 150 g, a serving of lauki 150 g, a slice of pumpkin 150 g, a cup of cauliflower florets 100 g and the juice of one lemon 30 g. Real vegetables range from about half to double those weights, so weigh yours. Each figure is the per-100 g value times the grams, divided by 100, rounded to the nearest kcal and 0.1 g; the 2 servings column is doubled before rounding, so it can differ by 1 kcal from twice the rounded figure.

What stands out in the numbers

• Potato is the densest by far: 70 kcal and 14.89 g of carbohydrate per 100 g, against 11 to 37 kcal for the other eight rows, lemon juice included. Our potato vs sweet potato guide compares it with sweet potato.
• The gourds are the lightest of the vegetable servings: a 150 g serving of lauki is about 16 kcal and of turai about 20 kcal, because their water is about 95 g per 100 g by Table 1. The juice of a lemon (about 11 kcal) is smaller still, but it is a condiment, not a serving of vegetable.
• Bhindi, brinjal and karela have the most fibre per 100 g: 4.08 g, 3.98 g and 3.78 g, with cauliflower at 3.71 g. Per serving that is about 4.1 g in 10 bhindi pods and 6.0 g in a 150 g brinjal by our weights.
• Lemon juice is small per use: row E033 gives 37 kcal per 100 g, so the juice of one lemon at about 30 g is about 11 kcal. Our common vegetables guide has more rows per 100 g.

How to log it so the numbers hold

• Weigh raw, peeled and trimmed. The rows are per 100 g edible portion, so peel the potato and pumpkin and trim the bhindi tips and brinjal stalk before weighing.
• Oil is the part that changes. A sabzi, bharta or fry carries the oil it was cooked in, which is not in these rows; see our cooking oil fatty acids guide. If you cannot weigh, the plate method in our hand-portion guide helps.
• Cooked, fried and boiled are not these rows. Aloo tikki, bhindi fry and boiled potato have their own numbers; these rows are for the raw vegetable only.
• Compare with other vegetables. Salad vegetables are in our tomato, onion, cucumber and carrot guide and peas, beans and drumstick in our pods and beans guide.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

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What this page leaves out

• A calorie or protein target: we have not looked up one for any person, so we give none.
• Other vegetables in IFCT 2017 and rows measured in fewer than 5 regions, such as the other potato rows, sweet potato and the single-variety brinjal rows, and any cooked, fried or boiled dish: this page covers the nine rows above only.
• Anything about weight, health or what these vegetables do to your body: the page adds up food data and makes no claim about it. If you have a medical condition, ask your doctor or dietitian.

Sources

• ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017). Table 1, protein, fat, total dietary fibre, available carbohydrate and energy per 100 g edible portion, read from the PDF on 27 Oct 2026: D004 (bitter gourd, jagged, teeth ridges, elongate, 6 regions) and D007 (bottle gourd, elongate, pale green, 6) on PDF page 45; D031 (brinjal, all varieties, 6) on page 46, D036 (cauliflower, 6) on page 47; D056 (ladies finger, 6), D066 (pumpkin, orange, round, 6) and D068 (ridge gourd, 6) on page 48; E033 (lemon, juice, 6) on page 50; and F006 (potato, brown skin, big, 6) on page 52. Energy converted from kJ at 4.184 kJ per kcal (F006 292 kJ = 70 kcal, D007 46 kJ = 11 kcal).
• Our potato guide, read on 27 Oct 2026, for the 150 g medium potato weight used there.
• nyus.in, the NYUS landing page, read on 27 Oct 2026 for the app statements in the NYUS section and the CTA.

The serving weights, the sums, the rounding and every sentence starting "Our reading" are NYUS's own arithmetic or opinion, not from a study. Names in brackets (aloo, kaddu, phool gobhi, baingan, bhindi, karela, turai, lauki, nimbu) are our matching to the IFCT row names.

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