Thepla Calories: Plain and With Sesame, Worked

By NYUS Inc. · Published 30 October 2026

The figures on this page are built from IFCT 2017 Table 1 rows and, where Table 1 has no row, USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy records. No primary table has a thepla record: IFCT 2017, the Indian Food Composition Tables from ICMR-NIN, prints raw foods (its few cooked rows are boiled and omelette eggs and roasted vermicelli) and no thepla, no roti, paratha or other cooked flatbread and no cooking oil row, and USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy has no thepla record. So this page does not quote a number. It works a plate of thepla out line by line: the raw atta, fenugreek leaves, green chilli, ginger, turmeric powder and, in the second version, white sesame seeds from named IFCT 2017 rows and the tawa oil from a USDA record, with weights per thepla that are our assumptions and the oil shown as a range so you can see what it adds, once as a plain thepla and once as a thepla with sesame and more oil. They are estimates, shown so you can change the weights to match your dough. For plain and aloo parathas from the same atta row see our paratha vs roti guide, for shop-bought flatbreads our packaged bread guide, for a stuffed paratha worked out the same way our paneer paratha guide, and for the spoon values our ghee, oil and sugar guide.

The short answer

By our working, 3 plain thepla (40 g raw atta, 10 g fenugreek leaves, 1 g green chilli, 1 g ginger and 0.3 g turmeric powder per thepla, with 3 g of oil on the tawa per thepla) are about 479.6 kcal and 14.1 g protein, about 159.9 kcal each, and 3 thepla with sesame (the same, plus 3 g of white sesame seeds and 6 g of tawa oil per thepla) are about 605.9 kcal and 16.1 g protein, about 202.0 kcal each. For 2 to 4 thepla and 2 to 4 g of tawa oil each the plain version runs 302.1 to 674.9 kcal, and with sesame and 4 to 8 g of oil each it runs 368.6 to 878.8 kcal, with the fenugreek leaves and spices in every cell. These are estimates from the weights below, not measured values, not from a thepla record and not a shop or restaurant figure. Our reading: the parts of the plain main case rank the atta 384.3 kcal, the tawa oil 79.6 kcal, the fenugreek leaves 10.3 kcal, the green chilli, ginger and turmeric 5.4 kcal; the parts of the sesame main case rank the atta 384.3 kcal, the tawa oil 159.1 kcal, the sesame seeds 46.8 kcal, the fenugreek leaves 10.3 kcal, the green chilli, ginger and turmeric 5.4 kcal; and the sesame version is 126.3 kcal above the plain one.

IFCT 2017 rows used, per 100 g

IFCT 2017 Table 1 prints, per 100 g edible portion, water, protein, ash, total fat, total dietary fibre, insoluble and soluble fibre, carbohydrate and energy in kJ. We read these 6 rows from the PDF text on 30 October 2026, as the mean of the regions shown (PDF pages in the Sources); the kcal is ours (kJ divided by 4.184, to 0.1). IFCT prints no portion weights; every row here is raw, so we count raw weight and no table prints a cooked weight for this dish. A019 is the same atta row as on our paratha vs roti guide.

The oil: USDA SR Legacy, per 100 g

IFCT 2017 Table 1 has no cooking oil row, so the oil comes from USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy; it is a US record (peanut oil). Energy is USDA's kcal with the kJ beside it; water, protein, total fat and carbohydrate (by difference) are in g, then fibre (g), total sugars (g) and sodium (mg), all per 100 g.

The data-type label on each USDA field, as the record shows it

USDA's record page shows a data-type label beside some fields and none beside others. This table copies what the record shows, read field by field from the nutrient table of the record page; "no label shown" means the record prints no label there, and "not printed" means the record has no row for that field. We do not interpret the labels beyond printing them. IFCT 2017 prints no such labels.

The household portions USDA prints for the oil

These are the entries in the record's Measures list, as printed; the other entry is 100 g. This page counts the oil in grams and takes 1 teaspoon as 4.5 g, the record's own teaspoon. The kcal in the last column is ours: the printed kcal per 100 g times the grams, divided by 100, shown to 0.1.

The portion sums: 171410 1 tsp (4.5 g): 884 × 4.5 / 100 = 39.78, so 39.8 kcal; 171410 1 cup (216 g): 884 × 216 / 100 = 1909.44, so 1909.4 kcal; 171410 1 tbsp (13.5 g): 884 × 13.5 / 100 = 119.34, so 119.3 kcal. By the same arithmetic 5 g of oil is 44.2 kcal and 10 g 88.4 kcal.

Worked example 1: plain thepla

Every weight here is our assumption for 3 thepla, counted raw: a dough of atta with chopped fenugreek leaves, green chilli, ginger and turmeric powder, rolled out and roasted on a tawa with oil. Each IFCT line is the kJ divided by 4.184, times the grams, divided by 100, to 0.1 kcal; each USDA line is the printed kcal per 100 g times the grams, divided by 100; protein is the table's protein per 100 g times the grams, divided by 100. Salt, water and other spices are not counted.

The grid varies the number of thepla (2, 3 or 4, every weight in the table above times the number of thepla over 3) and the tawa oil per thepla (2, 3, 4 g, our assumption); the table above is the 3-thepla main case.

Worked example 2: thepla with sesame

Same method and the same atta, fenugreek leaves, green chilli, ginger and turmeric; 3 g of white sesame seeds per thepla are added and the tawa oil goes up from 3 to 6 g per thepla. This is our assumed recipe, not a measured plate.

The grid varies the number of thepla (2, 3 or 4, every weight in the table above times the number of thepla over 3) and the tawa oil per thepla (4, 6, 8 g, our assumption); the table above is the 3-thepla main case.

The two main cases side by side

These are the single examples used in the short answer; each follows from the tables above and from the weights in the cell.

What stands out in the numbers

• Plain, part by part: the atta 384.3 kcal, the tawa oil 79.6 kcal, the fenugreek leaves 10.3 kcal, the green chilli, ginger and turmeric 5.4 kcal. Raw atta is 320.3 kcal per 100 g (IFCT A019) and fenugreek leaves 34.4 kcal per 100 g (C020).
• With sesame, part by part: the atta 384.3 kcal, the tawa oil 159.1 kcal, the sesame seeds 46.8 kcal, the fenugreek leaves 10.3 kcal, the green chilli, ginger and turmeric 5.4 kcal; against the plain version the sesame adds 46.8 kcal and the extra oil 79.5 kcal. White sesame seeds are 519.6 kcal per 100 g (H011).
• Number of thepla against oil: in the plain version the number of thepla (2 to 4) moves it more than the oil per thepla (2 to 4 g): 319.9 kcal against 53.1 kcal; in the version with sesame the number of thepla (2 to 4) moves it more than the oil per thepla (4 to 8 g): 404.1 kcal against 106.1 kcal. Each 5 g of oil is 44.2 kcal.
• Protein: about 14.1 g in 3 plain thepla and 16.1 g in 3 thepla with sesame; the atta supplies 12.7 g of it.
• These are estimates: no thepla record exists, the weights are ours, and a different weight of any ingredient in the tables above will change them.

Why these are estimates, not your thepla

• No record exists for the dish. IFCT 2017 prints raw foods and no cooked flatbread, and USDA SR Legacy has no thepla record (its one flatbread record is an Italian focaccia, and its paratha and roti records are named commercially prepared).
• The weights are assumptions. No table prints how much atta, fenugreek or oil a thepla takes; ours are stated per thepla so you can replace them.
• A thepla is not a standard piece. The page assumes 40 g of raw atta in each; a thepla made from more or less dough is more or less.
• Raw weights. No table prints the weight of the dough or the thepla after cooking, so the page counts raw weight and cannot give a per 100 g figure.
• The tawa oil is a range. The 2 to 8 g of oil per thepla is our assumption; no table prints how much oil a thepla takes.
• US data. The oil row is a US record; IFCT Table 1 has no oil row.
• Labels are printed, not judged. Calculated and Assumed zero are USDA's words on the record; we print them and draw no conclusion from them.

How to log it so the numbers hold

• Log it by parts. Weigh the raw atta for your dough once and log the oil by its own weight (weight × figure ÷ 100); our ghee, oil and sugar guide has the spoon values.
• Say how much oil. It is an input this page cannot know; 5 g of oil is 44.2 kcal.
• Log the number of thepla. A plate of 4 is the 4-thepla row, not the 3-thepla one.
• Say what else went in. Besan, curd, ghee and anything served with it are not counted.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

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What this page leaves out

• A measured calorie figure for thepla as a dish: no primary record prints one, so every figure here is an estimate from stated weights.
• A calorie target, and any claim about what atta, fenugreek, sesame or oil do to your body: we have not looked up any for any person, so we give none. If you have a medical condition or are pregnant, ask your doctor or dietitian.
• Other versions, such as thepla with besan, curd, bottle gourd, ghee or other greens: not covered here; log them from their own rows.
• Salt, other spice powders, the water in the dough, and curd, pickle or tea served with it: not counted.
• Shop, restaurant and packaged thepla: no table prints a weight or oil use, so we give no such figure; read the pack for packaged ones.
• The USDA flatbread, paratha and roti records (Focaccia, Italian flatbread, plain; Bread, paratha, whole wheat, commercially prepared, frozen; Bread, chapati or roti, plain, commercially prepared; Bread, chapati or roti, whole wheat, commercially prepared, frozen): found by search on 30 October 2026, the paratha and roti records are named commercially prepared, the flatbread record is an Italian focaccia, and none is a thepla, so none is used.
• Per 100 g figures: no table prints a cooked weight, so none is given here.
• Nutrients beyond energy, water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fibre, total sugars and sodium: not covered here.

Sources

• ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017), Table 1, per 100 g edible portion, mean of the regions shown (read from the PDF text 30 October 2026): A019 Wheat flour, atta (6 regions, 1340 kJ, PDF p. 42); C020 Fenugreek leaves (5 regions, 144 kJ, PDF p. 44); G008 Chillies, green - all varieties (6 regions, 177 kJ, PDF p. 53); G014 Ginger, fresh (6 regions, 230 kJ, PDF p. 54); G033 Turmeric powder (6 regions, 1174 kJ, PDF p. 55); H011 Gingelly seeds, white (5 regions, 2174 kJ, PDF p. 55). IFCT 2017 prints raw foods (its few cooked rows are boiled and omelette eggs and roasted vermicelli) and no thepla, no roti, paratha or other cooked flatbread and no cooking oil row (PDF text searched for thepla, methi, paratha, roti, chapati, flatbread and oil, with no match; the rows used are A019 wheat flour, atta (PDF p. 42), C020 fenugreek leaves (p. 44), G008 green chilli (p. 53), G014 ginger (p. 54), G033 turmeric powder (p. 55) and H011 white gingelly (sesame) seeds (p. 55)).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 171410 (Oil, peanut, salad or cooking): Energy 884 kcal (3700 kJ), protein 0 g, total fat 100 g, carbohydrate by difference 0 g, fibre 0 g, total sugars 0 g, sodium 0 mg per 100 g; labels as printed: kcal Calculated, carbohydrate by difference no label shown, total sugars Assumed zero (Insignificant amount or not naturally occurring in a food, such as fiber in meat); portions used: 1 tsp (4.5 g); 1 cup (216 g); 1 tbsp (13.5 g) (read 30 October 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy searches run on 30 October 2026 (control 'roll dinner' 11 results): thepla 0 results, methi 0 results, flatbread 1 result, paratha 1 result, roti 2 results, chapati 2 results.
• nyus.in, the NYUS landing page, read on 30 October 2026 for the app statements in the NYUS section and the CTA.

The per-thepla weights, the kJ to kcal conversions, the line values, the sums, the grids, the per-piece division, the tawa oil, the portion kcal, the rounding, the comparisons and every sentence starting "Our reading" are NYUS's own assumptions, arithmetic or opinion, not from USDA or IFCT. The IFCT values are the means printed in IFCT 2017 Table 1; the USDA values, data-type labels and Measures-list portions are exactly as shown on the USDA record page. The names in the first column are the tables' own names.

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