How many calories are in a rice cake?

One plain rice cake weighs about 9g and has 35 calories, so two are 71 and four are 141. The per-100g figure of 392 calories looks alarming until you remember that a rice cake is mostly air.

Are rice cakes good for weight loss?

The cake is not the issue, the topping is. Two rice cakes are 71 calories; add two tablespoons of peanut butter and the snack becomes 259. Paired with something lighter, they are one of the cheapest crunchy bases available.

Are rice cakes healthier than potato chips?

By calorie density, clearly. Rice cakes are 392 calories per 100g against 545 for potato chips, with 4.3g of fat against 35.3g. An ounce of rice cakes is 110 calories where an ounce of chips is 153.

Do rice cakes spike blood sugar?

They behave much like white bread. With 76.9g of net carbs per 100g and only 4.2g of fiber, puffed rice digests fast. Adding fat or protein, such as avocado or nut butter, slows the rise considerably.

Are rice cakes gluten-free?

Plain ones are, since a 9g cake is rice, a pinch of salt and 35 calories. Flavored varieties are where gluten sneaks in through seasonings and malt, and they also lift the sugar well above the 0.9g per 100g in the plain version.

How much sodium is in rice cakes?

Very little in the plain version: 71mg per 100g, which is about 6mg per cake. That is one of their real advantages over crackers, which run 941mg of sodium per 100g in our data.

Are rice cakes a good pre-workout snack?

They suit that job well. At 81.1g of carbs per 100g with almost no fat, two cakes give 14.6g of fast carbs for 71 calories and sit lightly in the stomach. Adding honey pushes both the carbs and the calories higher.

Is there any protein or fiber in rice cakes?

On paper, 7.1g of protein and 4.2g of fiber per 100g. Scaled to the 9g cake you actually eat, that is 0.6g of protein and 0.4g of fiber, which is close to nothing. Treat them as a vehicle, not a nutrient source.

Rice cakes vs crackers vs popcorn?

Per 100g they land within 30 calories of each other: popcorn 387, rice cakes 392, crackers 418. Fiber and sodium separate them. Popcorn has 14.5g of fiber per 100g against 4.2g for rice cakes, and crackers carry thirteen times the sodium.