– 16 pieces in total came out to be 1,024 calories.ġ amaebi, 2 hamachi, 1 hokkigai, 1 hotate, 2 ikura, 1 maguro, 1 masago (80 calories), 1 mirugai, 4 sake, and 2 uni. Looking at the choices women madeĤ anago, 2 awabi, 2 hamachi, 2 sake, 2 uni, and 4 unagi. – His calorie comes out to only 1,066 calories despite eating the 20 pieces. By eating different types of sushi, you can limit your calorie intake as well as get various health benefits from each fish.ġ awabi, 2 hamachi, 2 hirame, 2 hotate, 1 ika, 2 ikura, 1 iwashi, 1 kohada, 2 maguro, 1 mirugai, 2 saba, and 2 tai. Part of this is because he ate a whopping 11 pieces of ikura, which has 73 calories each. – His calorie intake was 1,409 calories even though he only ate two pieces more than the previous respondent. But because his choices have many high calorie items, the total calorie intake from his meal would be 1,192.ġ amaebi, 1 anago, 1 hamachi, 1 hirame, 1 hokkigai, 1 ika, 11 ikura, 2 maguro, 1 sake, 1 uni, and 1 unagi, total of 22 pieces. © We Love Japanese Food Survey 2016 The choices man made are…Ĥ pieces of hamachi, 8 pieces of salmon, 4 pieces of uni, and 4 pieces of unagi. © We Love Japanese Food Survey 2016 Result of women ![]() How Many Pieces of Nigiri Sushi Do You Usually Eat at Your Dinner? © We Love Japanese Food Survey 2016 Result of men Total average was about 18.6 pieces (1,061 calories). If you stop at that, without ordering other appetizers or sushi, you’d have a fairly controlled meal.īut can we stop it at that? There are so many more kinds of sushi you will want to try, and not to mention the ones you want to eat two or three times? So we asked our readers about how many pieces of nigiri sushi they tend to eat in a single visit to sushi restaurants.įrom the survey, men answered that they average about 21.9 pieces of nigiri sushi (at 1,253 calories) and women about 16.0 pieces (908 calories). ![]() If you add it all up, it totals 640 calories. In this picture of a set omakase, you’ll see (from top row L to R) ikura, uni, anago, tako, hokkigai, tamago (bottom row L to R), aji, maguro, tai, ebi, and saba. A basic omakase at a sushi restaurant will consist of roughly around 11 pieces of nigiri sushi like the image shown below. Calories in Nigiri Sushi Japanese Nameĭepending on what sushi you eat, the calories may range from just above 40 calories to 85 calories per piece. An average nigiri sushi contain about 20 grams of rice or 32 calories from rice. If you take a look at the chart below, you can see an average amount of calories per piece of nigiri sushi. No wonder it’s not considered a diet-friendly food. To give you an idea, a burger combo with a soft drink will have about 1300 calories. But it is safe to say that you should not be consuming more than 1000 calories in a single meal if you plan to eat three meals a day as generally deemed healthy. Of course depending on your weight, height, age and your daily activity, that target number will differ. An average male should consume about 2000 calories and females, 1800 in a single day. That small ball of rice under the fish may look small, but can definitely add up as you begin eating 5, 10, 15 pieces. While sushi, as stated above, is a good source of nutrients and proteins, it also contains carbs. ![]() However, the concept of “healthy” and “calories” don’t always go hand in hand. So in that sense – yes, what you are consuming is completely natural. It’s always nice to know that what you are eating does not contain the artificial ingredients with names you can hardly pronounce. ![]() Another plus to eating sushi is the few ingredients used making sushi: simply rice, vinegar, rice wine, and in some cases salt. However, fish is a great source of protein as well as other nutrients like fish oil, vitamin B, iron, and more. You are eating predominantly fish and rice, and yes, it does lack the leafy green vegetables that your doctor always tell you to eat. This is in some parts true, but one must bear in mind what you are consuming. Many consider sushi to be a healthy food.
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