Calories and protein in a cup of frijoles de olla
Also called pot beans, pinto beans.
The short answer
1 cup, about 240 g
230 kcal
14 g protein
Fat 0.5 g · carbs 41 g · fibre 10 g · Vegan
Portion: beans with some of their broth. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Whole pot beans have no added fat. Refried beans are the same beans fried in lard or oil, which is where the difference comes from.
What moves the number
- Pinto beansabout 220 kcal
- Onionabout 5 kcal
- Garlicabout 0 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 cup, scaled from the batch recipe in the Homekcal app’s dish table. Water, salt and spices add almost no energy but are listed so the recipe is complete. If your version has more of something, the numbers move with it.
| Ingredient | Weight | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinto beansUSDA: Beans, pinto, mature seeds, raw (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program) | 64 g | 220 | 14 g |
| OnionUSDA: Onions, raw | 11 g | 5 | 0 g |
| GarlicUSDA: Garlic, raw | 1.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 254 g | 0 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Cooked yield is an estimate of a typical home pot (water evaporated); a weighed batch would replace it.
- A cup with more broth is lighter than a cup of drained beans; the share of broth is an estimate.
- Some cooks add lard or bacon to the pot; this one has none.
How this was worked out
This is the same dish the Homekcal app logs, from the same table. Each raw ingredient’s weight is multiplied by its per-100 g values in USDA FoodData Central, the batch is added up and divided by the cooked weight it makes. Calories are rounded to the nearest 10 and grams to the nearest gram, because a standard recipe is not your recipe. These are calculated values, not weighed or lab tested meals, and home versions vary a lot.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2026. fdc.nal.usda.gov. Public domain (CC0).
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