Calories in Indian dishes

Calories in 1 katori upma

What 1 katori upma comes to in calories, protein and carbohydrate, worked out from its ingredients.

Numbers worked out by Poshan Labs from IFCT 2017 (ICMR-NIN). Last updated 26 October 2026.

One katori upma is about 207 kcal, with 6.3 g of protein, 31 g of carbohydrate, 6 g of fibre and 5.8 g of fat. Everything below is worked out from the ingredients, one by one.

1 katori upma

Upma: calories from ½ to 2 katoris

103 kcal½ katori upma
207 kcal1 katori upma
310 kcal1½ katoris upma
414 kcal2 katoris upma

Each row is the whole dish at that amount, so you can read off what you ate.

AmountCalories (kcal)Protein (g)Carbs (g)Fat (g)
½ katori upma1033.1162.9
1 katori upma2076.3315.8
1½ katoris upma3109.4478.7
2 katoris upma414136312

Numbers are for home cooking with the oil listed. How they were worked out is at the end of the page.

What goes into it

This is a standard home recipe, not one of the diet chart dishes: these are the weights the numbers come from. Your cook's version will differ, so check the oil and the portion.

  • Oil: the groundnut oil is 44 kcal of the 207. Without the groundnut oil, 1 katori upma would come to about 163 kcal.
  • Measure it: the oil is the part of this number you decide, so measure it with a spoon rather than pouring.

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How this was worked out

The page adds up the IFCT values for every ingredient at the weight of a standard home recipe. The weights are raw, as the tables measure them, and the oil is the oil in the recipe. Katori means a standard 150 ml bowl. Your cooking will differ a little, so treat the number as a good starting point and check it against how you feel and what the scale says.

Calories and nutrients are calculated from the Indian Food Composition Tables 2017, National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR).

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