Rice Nutritional Information

Rice is an important part of multiple types of cuisines, including Asian and Spanish cuisine. Rice will add calories to your meal, but can also add multiple nutritional benefits.

Serving

• Many types of rice available for consumption. This guide assumes 1 cup of white, long-grain rice.

Calories

• One cup of rice will add 205 calories to your daily diet. The majority of these calories come from carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates

• If you want to load up on carbohydrate, you may want to look to rice. One cup of rice has 45 g of carbohydrates.

Folate

• One serving of rice will give you 23 percent of your daily recommended amount of folate. There are 91.6 mcg per serving of rice.

Iron

• Rice can be a good source of iron. One serving of rice has 11 percent of your daily recommended amount.