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Calories and added sugar per piece for laddoo, barfi, gulab jamun, halwa and more, checked against the WHO free-sugar limit.
The Festival Sweet Calorie Calculator gives calories, added sugar and fat per piece for 35 common Indian sweets — laddoo, barfi, gulab jamun, jalebi, halwa and kheer — and totals whatever combination you actually ate. It converts the sugar into teaspoons and measures it against the WHO free-sugar guideline of under 10% of daily energy, which is 50 g on a 2,000 kcal day, and the 5% further-benefit level of 25 g. Written for anyone who wants to enjoy Diwali, Eid or Raksha Bandhan sweets while knowing roughly where the day stands.
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Set 'Your daily calorie intake (kcal)' — it starts at 2,000 — then use 'Pick a section' to switch between Laddoo, Barfi and katli, Syrup sweets, Halwa and katori and Milk sweets.
Tap + or − beside each sweet to count the pieces you ate, up to 30 of any one; the box opens with 2 gulab jamun and 1 kaju katli already in it.
Read 'Total for the box' in kcal with the added sugar in grams and teaspoons, plus rows for the WHO 10% ceiling and the 5% further-benefit level; 'Copy summary' saves it and 'Reset' restores the default box.
Values are for one laddoo, one slice or one katori, which is how mithai is actually eaten.
Grams of added sugar are converted at 4 g per level teaspoon so the number means something.
The total is compared with both the 10% ceiling and the 5% further-benefit level for your own calorie intake.
About 150 kcal for a standard 40 g piece served with syrup, of which roughly 20 g is sugar. Larger shop pieces and a longer soak in syrup push it higher, so treat 150 as a mid-point rather than a fixed figure.
Milk-based pieces that are small and lightly sweetened come lowest per piece: kaju katli is around 65 kcal a slice, peda about 100 kcal, and sandesh about 105 kcal. Halwa and ghevar are highest because they carry both ghee and syrup — a katori of moong dal halwa is around 350 kcal.
WHO recommends keeping free sugars below 10% of total energy, with a further conditional recommendation to go below 5%. On a 2,000 kcal diet that is 50 g and 25 g of sugar respectively, since sugar supplies 4 kcal per gram. Two gulab jamun alone are roughly 40 g.
That depends on individual blood-glucose control, medication and portion size, so it is a question for your doctor or diabetes educator rather than a calculator. What this tool can do is show the added-sugar load of a specific portion so the conversation starts from a real number.
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