Have you ever wondered how many calories sushi has?
Fortunately, sushi is not a fattening food and does not contain many calories. It is made with short-grain white Japanese rice mixed with a dressing made from rice vinegar, sugar, and salt. Rice contains a certain amount of carbohydrates. Sushi can be eaten even without rice as sashimi, which will also reduce the number of calories consumed. This traditional Japanese food is also high in protein and this helps build lean muscle.
Some restaurants that prefer flavor to calorie watching may add ingredients, such as mayonnaise, to sushi rolls that will increase their caloric values. Sushi that contains mayonnaise and cream cheese, and also tempura sushi, are generally high in calories. They are not recommended in slimming diets.
However, the information on this page should give you a good estimate of the calories and nutritional ingredients in various sushi items.
Check the number of calories and nutrients in basic sushi rolls, Nigiri sushi (sushi on a bed of rice), sashimi (sushi without rice), and sushi condiments like Wasabi.
Here are the calorie amounts in the most popular rolls.
An Avocado Roll sushi contains 140 kcal. California Roll has 255 kcal. The Kappa Maki cucumber roll will provide you with 136 kcal.
Another type of sushi, fish on a bed of rice, called Nigiri sushi, is usually served with fish that weighs about 0.5 oz or 14 grams.
Wild salmon sushi called Sake contains 50 calories. Shiro Maguro White Tuna (Albacore) Nigiri sushi has 55 calories. Nigiri Sushi Buri with Yellowtail Fish has 51 calories.
If you’re using a calorie counter and want to reduce your calorie intake but still enjoy Japanese food, try eating sashimi, which is just fish with no rice. For example, Amaebi Sweet shrimp sashimi contains 30 calories per one-ounce piece. Ikura salmon sashimi has 19 calories per ounce. Tako sashimi with octopus has 46 calories.
You may be surprised, but even Wasabi Paste has a decent number of calories. One hundred grams (3.75 ounces) of Wasabi Paste contains 265 calories. So go ahead and find out the whole truth about sushi calories.
