Calories in Atta Ladoo

The source recipe roasts 60 g of atta in 15 g of ghee, adds 20 g of peanuts, 10 g of sesame seeds and 25 g of jaggery, and divides the mixture into 4 ladoos. The source does not fix a weight for one ladoo, so the figure here is simply one share of that batch: 15 g of atta, 5 g of peanuts, 2.5 g of til, 6 g of jaggery and 4 g of ghee. That is a small ladoo. Winter atta ladoos and pinnis made at home, heavy with ghee, gond and dry fruit, are usually larger and richer. This one is the 3rd lightest of the 20 sweets in the set.

Carbohydrate supplies 46% of the energy, fat 45% and protein 10%. Unlike most ladoos, this one gets much of its carbohydrate from whole wheat flour, not from sugar: sugars are only 5.8 g, the lowest among the ladoos here. The 7 g of fat is shared between ghee, peanuts and sesame, and only 4 g of ghee goes into each ladoo. Whole wheat, peanuts and til together give 2.6 g of fibre and 3.4 g of protein. It is closer to a sweetened flour-and-nut snack than to mithai.

An atta ladoo of this size is about 7% of a sedentary man's daily energy requirement and 9% of a woman's. Two are 284 kcal with 6.8 g of protein, and three are 426 kcal. With a glass of milk in the morning it is a familiar winter start to the day in many homes, and a practical one, since the milk supplies the protein the ladoo is short of. For an adult watching portions, one ladoo with tea is a snack; half of one is about 71 kcal.

One ladoo has 5.8 g of sugars and 7 g of fat, low for a sweet, but only at this size and with this little ghee. A home-made pinni is not the same thing. The ladoo contains wheat, peanuts and sesame, three common allergens, which matters when sweets are shared at school or sent to other homes. People with diabetes should confirm with their doctor or dietitian how a flour-and-jaggery ladoo fits their meal plan.