How Many Calories in Yellow Beans

The calorie content in each yellow bean varies based on its length, weight and also the manner in which it is cooked. Beans can be baked, steamed or sautéed and the calories in each of these methods differ from the other. There are 44 calories in a cup of cooked yellow beans and most of these come from carbohydrates, an equal quantity of cooked yellow beans contain 9.9 grams of carbohydrates out of which 4.1 grams is fiber.

10 four inch long yellow beans which weigh around 55 grams contain 17 calories. Half a cup of yellow beans which weighs around 100 grams contains 31 calories. The calorie content in yellow beans is far less as compared to various other food items. 100 grams of yellow beans which has approximately 31 calories gives 1.55% of the recommended daily allowance of calories for women and 1.24% of the recommended daily allowance of calories for men.

Yellow Beans Calories

100 grams of yellow beans contain around 90.27 grams of water, around 7.13 grams of carbohydrates, 3.4 grams of fiber and 1.82 grams of proteins. It also contains some quantity of Ash, Aspartic acid and Glutamic acid. Total Lipid (fat) in 100 grams of yellow beans is 0.12 grams, polyunsaturated fatty acids are 0.059 grams and saturated fatty acids are 0.026 grams. Yellow beans also contains some quantity of other micronutrients including Leucine, Serine, Valine, Lysine, Threonine, Arginine, Proline, Phenylaline, Glycine, Tyrosine, Histisine, Methionine, Trytophan and Cystine.

100 grams of yellow beans provides 31 kcal Energy. It has 108 IU of Vitamin A, 37 mcg of Folate, 0.6 mcg of Selenium, 209 mg of Potassium, 38 mg of Phosphorus, 37 mg Calcium, 25 mg Magnesium, 16.3 mg Vitamin C, 6 mg Sodium, 1.04 mg Iron, 0.752 mg Niacin, 0.214 mg Manganese, 0.24 mg Zinc, 0.105 mg Riboflavin, 0.094 mg Pantothenic acid, 0.084 mg Thiamin, 0.074 mg of Vitamin B 6 and 0.069 mg Copper.