"it takes 400 grams or about 19,200 grains of rice to feed one adult for a day" Source: Freerice via Wikipedia
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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Wow, that site's been up for almost 20yrs, now. It's pretty fun, and helped me do a little bit of language-learning over the years, but is nowhere comprehensive for such a thing. Still, it's casual fun, and seems to be legit:
50g is a ~180-200 calorie portion.
And if you included protein, vegetables...to a good size of a meal?
It's hard to get a good number there. Most nutritional measures are by volume or mass, rather than grain count, and the number of grains in a cup or kilo is variable based on type, (un)processed, etc. One site I found says 7k~10k per cup, which would be ~37k/kg. Nutritional calculations are complicated by the conversion from uncooked to cooked because rice usually expands as you cook it, so 1 cup uncooked is fewer grains than uncooked, but nutritional data is usually for cooked foods. Looks like maybe cooking expands the rice by about 3x. Then there are questions regarding what the necessary amount would be. A cup of cooked is ~200 calories. A standard estimate for number of calories needed, ignoring nutrition, is ~2k. Rough guess?
10c cooked rice = 3.33c uncooked = 23k~33k grains