Nutrition facts, USDA data

Navy beans, cooked, calories and nutrition

By Eric Parker, founder of TrueCal. Updated September 29, 2026.

A cooked cup of navy beans is 255 calories

A cup of cooked navy beans has 255 calories, 15 g of protein and 19.1 g of fiber. Half a cup has 127 calories.

USDA's cup is 182 g of beans boiled without salt. Measure them after cooking, not dry.

USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. Source checked September 29, 2026.

From dry beans to a cooked pot

A cup of dry navy beans weighs 208 g and has 701 calories. Per 100 g, USDA lists 337 calories for dry beans and 140 for cooked beans.

Weigh beans in the same form as the numbers you use, dry beans with the dry values and cooked beans with the cooked ones.

PortionWeightCalories kcalProtein gCarbs gFat gFiber gSugar gSodium mgCaffeine mgPortion source
1 cup cooked navy beans182 g2551547.41.119.10.700USDA portion, 1 cup
Half a cup cooked navy beans91 g1277.523.70.69.60.300Half a cup, computed from USDA's 1 cup
1 cup canned navy beans262 g29619.753.61.113.40.7880.30USDA portion, 1 cup
1 cup dry navy beans208 g70146.4126.43.131.88.110.40USDA portion, 1 cup

USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, raw. Source checked September 29, 2026.

Navy bean nutrition by the cup

Most of the calories come from carbs, 47.4 g in a cup, and 19.1 g of that is fiber. There's just 1.1 g of fat, and beans boiled without salt have 0 mg of sodium.

Making chili or soup with more than one kind? Pinto, black and kidney beans each have a page, and the full list of calorie references has the rest of the pot.

Nutrient1 cup cooked navy beansPer 100 g
Calories 255 kcal 140 kcal
Protein 15 g 8.2 g
Carbs 47.4 g 26.1 g
Fat 1.1 g 0.6 g
Fiber 19.1 g 10.5 g
Sugar 0.7 g 0.4 g
Sodium 0 mg 0 mg

USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. Source checked September 29, 2026.

Home-cooked or canned

Canned navy beans have 113 calories per 100 g, fewer than the 140 in beans you boil yourself, but a cup of canned beans is heavier, 262 g and 296 calories.

They also have 336 mg of sodium per 100 g. USDA's canned record doesn't say whether the liquid was drained, so do not assume it matches a drained or undrained serving.

PreparationWeightCalories kcalProtein gCarbs gFat gFiber gSugar gSodium mgCaffeine mg
Navy beans boiled without salt100 g1408.226.10.610.50.400
Canned navy beans100 g1137.520.40.45.10.33360
Dry navy beans, uncooked100 g33722.360.81.515.33.950

USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, canned. Source checked September 29, 2026.

Weigh a ladle of beans

Scoop the cooked beans into a bowl on the scale and enter the grams below. The calculator uses beans boiled without salt.

Beans in a soup or a baked bean dish? Describe the whole bowl to TrueCal and review the estimate.

182 g has about 255 calories.

USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. Source checked September 29, 2026.

How much protein and fiber is in half a cup of navy beans?

Half a cup of cooked navy beans has 7.5 g of protein and 9.6 g of fiber.

USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. Source checked September 29, 2026.

Do navy beans have sugar?

Very little. Cooked navy beans have 0.4 g of sugar per 100 g, and a cup has 0.7 g.

USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. Source checked September 29, 2026.

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USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, canned. USDA FoodData Central. Beans, navy, mature seeds, raw. Source checked September 29, 2026.