How Many Calories in Cucur Jagung?

Also known as Corn Fritter, Jemput Jagung, Cekodok Jagung.

Sweetcorn folded into a flour batter and deep fried into a fritter. Cheap, hot, sold by the bag at every pasar and warung in the country.

120kcal / 1 piece (hawker stall)

One piece of cucur jagung is around 120 calories for a typical 40g hawker fritter. The batter and corn together are only about 60 of that. The other 60 is cooking oil the fritter absorbed on its way out of the wok, which is the part nobody thinks about. It sounds harmless because it is vegetable and it is small, but these are sold in bags of six or eight, and nobody in recorded history has eaten one cucur jagung. Six pieces is 720 calories, which is a full meal in fritter form.

Nutrition facts

Per 1 piece (hawker stall) (40g)	Amount	Per 100g
Calories	120 kcal	300 kcal
Protein	2 g	5 g
Carbs	14 g	35 g
Fat	7 g	18 g

Where the calories come from

Flour batter with sweetcorn33g

60 kcal

Absorbed frying oil7g

60 kcal

The real talk

Cucur jagung feels like a safe snack because there is corn in it. The corn is fine. The problem is that a fritter is a sponge, and deep frying is how you get oil into a sponge. Roughly 7g of oil ends up in each piece, which is 60 calories on its own, so the fritter is about half oil by calories before you count the batter.

The real damage is the format. These are sold hot in a bag by the half dozen for a couple of ringgit. You buy a bag on the way home, you eat them in the car, and 720 calories are gone before you have parked. That is not a snack, that is dinner. If you ate a proper meal and then had the bag, you are 700 calories over for the day and you will not have registered eating anything.

Numbers here are estimates against a normal 40g hawker piece. Some stalls make them small and thin, some make them the size of your palm and soak them properly. A big greasy one is closer to 180 than 120, so use your eyes.

How many calories in 2, 3 or 4 pieces?

How many	Calories	Protein
1 piece	120 kcal	2 g
2 pieces	240 kcal	4 g
3 pieces	360 kcal	6 g
4 pieces	480 kcal	8 g
5 pieces	600 kcal	10 g
6 pieces	720 kcal	12 g

Cucur Jagung variants, ranked by calories

Variant	Calories	Notes
Cucur jagung (small)	90 kcal	Thin pasar-style piece, about 30g
Cucur jagung (standard)	120 kcal	Typical 40g hawker fritter
Cucur jagung (large)	180 kcal	Palm sized, thicker batter, holds more oil
Cucur sayur	130 kcal	Vegetable fritter version, usually with sayur and a little more batter
Cucur udang	145 kcal	Prawn fritter, bigger and denser than the corn version

How to eat it lighter

Buy by the piece, not by the bag. Two is 240 calories and it is a genuine snack. Six is a meal.
Take them off the pile that has been sitting and draining rather than straight out of the wok. Less oil clinging to the outside.
Ask for them on paper and blot them. It sounds fussy but it genuinely takes 10 to 20 calories off each piece.
If you want the corn without the oil, jagung rebus or a corn cup is about 330 calories for a big portion and it keeps you full much longer.
Eat them right after a high protein meal, not on an empty stomach at 4pm. You will stop at two instead of eight.

Common questions

How many calories in Cucur Jagung?

About 120 calories for one standard 40g piece. A small pasar piece is nearer 90 and a large palm sized one can hit 180.

How many calories in a bag of cucur jagung?

A typical bag is six pieces, so around 720 calories. That is a full meal, not a snack, which is the thing worth knowing before you buy one on the way home.

Is cucur jagung healthy?

There is corn in it, but roughly half the calories are frying oil the batter soaked up. It is a fried snack with vegetables in it, not a vegetable dish. Two pieces fits in most days. Six does not.

Berapa kalori dalam Cucur Jagung?

Cucur Jagung ada kira-kira 120 kalori untuk 1 keping (40g), dengan 2g protein, 14g karbohidrat dan 7g lemak. Angka ini anggaran untuk hidangan gerai biasa, jadi ia berbeza ikut kedai dan saiz hidangan.

Calorie and macro figures are estimates for a typical hawker or kopitiam serving. Actual numbers vary by stall, recipe and portion size. Use them as a guide, not gospel.

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