Naan
Food · Grain · Food, Typed Supps
The enriched bread of the batch — fat, sugar and 630 mg of sodium.
Stage by stage
- Enriched dough (The bread): Fat, sugar and yoghurt in the dough — closer to a soft roll than to roti.
- Real serve (Stomach): A restaurant naan is 100–150 g, so the panel is close to what you actually eat.
- Sodium (Circulation): 630 mg per 100 g, the highest of the breads here.
- Added fat (Liver): 7.1 g per 100 g before whatever gets brushed on at the table.
Timing
Nothing to time. Portion size here is unusually close to the tabulated 100 g, which makes the figures more directly useful than most.
Time to effect
- 15–30 min: Glycaemic peak.
- Per naan: Around 630–950 mg sodium and 7–11 g fat at 100–150 g.
Allergens
Contains: Gluten. May contain: Sesame. Derived from what this food is, not from a product label.
Eating patterns
Fits: Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Halal, Kosher. Depends on the product: Low-FODMAP.
Satiety
115 on the satiety index, where white bread is 100 — moderate. Modelled from the Holt et al. (1995) measurements.
Environmental footprint
1.6 kg CO2e and 648 litres of freshwater per kg, matched to "Wheat & rye" in Poore & Nemecek (2018), Science 360.
Cost band
Cheap — roughly £3 per kg, as a band midpoint rather than a price.
Key nutrients
Nutrition per 100g
- Calories: 293
- Protein: 8g
- Carbohydrate: 47.8g
- of which sugars: 6g
- Fat: 7.1g
- of which saturated: 1.4g
- Fibre: 2.6g
- Sodium: 630mg
Food vs. supplement
Naan and roti sit side by side on most menus and are not the same kind of food: one is an enriched leavened dough with fat and sugar worked in, the other is unleavened wholemeal flour and water.
Kitchen tip
Order roti or chapati instead when it is on the menu. Same cuisine, unenriched dough, usually wholemeal.
Common myth
“Naan is just Indian bread — it’s no different from a roti.” In reality: They are made quite differently. Naan is a leavened, enriched dough with fat, sugar and yoghurt or milk worked in; roti is unleavened wholemeal flour and water. That shows up as 7.1 g of fat, 6 g of sugar and 630 mg of sodium per 100 g, before anything is brushed on at the table.
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