Nutrition facts · Beans, nuts and seeds
Calories in Mung beans (cooked)
Cooked mung beans have 105 calories per 100 g, and a 1-cup serving of cooked beans (202 g) has 212 calories. Most of those calories come from carbohydrates (19.2 g per 100 g), with a good share from protein (7 g) and very little from fat (0.4 g).
Calories come from: Carbs 71% · Fat 3% · Protein 26%
Common servings
| Serving | Weight | Calories | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 105 kcal | 7 g | 19.2 g | 0.4 g |
| 1 cup, cooked | 202 g | 212 kcal | 14.2 g | 38.7 g | 0.8 g |
Full nutrition (Per 100 g)
| Calories | 105 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 7 g |
| Carbohydrates | 19.2 g |
| of which sugars | 2 g |
| Fiber | 7.6 g |
| Fat | 0.4 g |
| of which saturated | 0.1 g |
| Sodium | 2 mg |
What changes the calories
- Dry mung beans absorb a lot of water as they cook, so a gram of dry beans has far more calories than a gram of cooked beans, and you need to log the form you actually weighed.
- Oil, ghee or butter added for tempering or frying adds its own calories on top of the beans themselves.
- Beans cooked into a thick soup or dal with extra liquid will have fewer calories per gram of the finished dish than drained beans, because the water adds weight but no calories.
- Coconut milk, cream or sugar in curries and desserts can raise the calories of a mung bean dish well above the plain beans.
Tips for logging it accurately
- Weigh the beans after cooking and draining, and log them as cooked mung beans, not dry.
- Log any oil, ghee, coconut milk or toppings separately so the extras are counted.
- In BerryFit, snap a photo of your bowl to start the entry, then adjust the portion to match your weighed amount.
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Frequently asked questions
How many calories are in a cup of cooked mung beans?
One cup of cooked mung beans (202 g) has 212 calories, with 14.2 g protein, 38.7 g carbs and 0.8 g fat.
How much protein is in mung beans?
Cooked mung beans have 7 g of protein per 100 g, or 14.2 g in a 1-cup cooked serving.
Are mung beans high in carbs?
Most of their calories come from carbs, at 19.2 g per 100 g cooked, of which 7.6 g is fiber and 2 g is sugar.
Do mung beans have more calories than lentils?
They are close: cooked mung beans have 105 calories per 100 g, compared with 116 for cooked lentils.
Similar foods
Calories in common foodsValues per 100 g from USDA FoodData Central (Mung beans, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt, FDC ID 174257); servings use USDA portion weights. Real foods vary by variety, ripeness and preparation.
The text on this page was written with the help of AI (Anthropic's Claude) and checked against the numbers in a separate review. The numbers themselves come only from USDA.
