What goes into this Alaska roll?
Delish supports the rice, salmon, seaweed, avocado and cucumber combination. Its recipe also includes crab and sauces, which our simplified model omits. We add assumed sugar and distilled vinegar for rice seasoning; these are model inputs, not copied recipe quantities.
Why does the salmon change the range?
The lower and upper calculations allow wild or farmed raw Atlantic salmon. Those USDA records differ in fat and calories. The endpoints for each nutrient use that nutrient’s lower or higher record value; they are nutrient envelopes, not a single tested recipe.
How do we count the nori?
FDC 168458 is raw laver with 85.03 g water per 100 g. Raw-equivalent grams = dry matter grams ÷ (1 − 85.03 ÷ 100). Thus 0.5–1 g dry matter corresponds to 3.3–6.7 g raw laver after display rounding. We scale all nutrients using the unrounded conversion. Drying and roasting can change composition: this is a dry-matter proxy, not a measured dried-nori label.
Whole roll or individual pieces?
Cutting the same roll into 6–8 pieces changes calories per piece, not the whole-roll total. Divide the unrounded roll calculation by the actual number of equal pieces. Crab, mayonnaise, spicy sauce and other additions need separate entries.
USDA inputs and portion assumptions
Each row uses the stated edible ingredient grams. Rows below apply to the answer-box serving. Endpoints sum unrounded USDA amounts, then round once. A row with alternative records uses the minimum and maximum for each nutrient independently.
| Ingredient, grams and USDA source | Calories (kcal) | Protein (g) | Carbohydrate (g) | Fat (g) | Sodium (mg) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice, white, short-grain, cooked, unenriched120–180 g edible inputRice, white, short-grain, cooked, unenriched · FDC 168932 | 156–234 kcal | 2.8–4.2 g | 34.5–51.7 g | 0.2–0.3 g | 0 mg |
| Raw salmon: wild / farmed Atlantic45–70 g edible inputFish, salmon, Atlantic, wild, raw · FDC 173686Fish, salmon, Atlantic, farmed, raw · FDC 175167 | 64–146 kcal | 8.9–14.3 g | 0 g | 2.9–9.4 g | 19.8–41.3 mg |
| Avocados, raw, all commercial varieties25–45 g edible inputAvocados, raw, all commercial varieties · FDC 171705 | 40–72 kcal | 0.5–0.9 g | 2.1–3.8 g | 3.7–6.6 g | 1.8–3.2 mg |
| Cucumber, with peel, raw20–40 g edible inputCucumber, with peel, raw · FDC 168409 | 3–6 kcal | 0.1–0.3 g | 0.7–1.5 g | 0 g | 0.4–0.8 mg |
| Laver dry-matter equivalent0.5–1 g dry matter; converted to raw equivalentSeaweed, laver, raw · FDC 168458 | 1–2 kcal | 0.2–0.4 g | 0.2–0.3 g | 0 g | 1.6–3.2 mg |
| Sugars, granulated3–6 g edible inputSugars, granulated · FDC 169655 | 12–23 kcal | 0 g | 3–6 g | 0 g | 0–0.1 mg |
| Vinegar, distilled5–10 g edible inputVinegar, distilled · FDC 172237 | 1–2 kcal | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | 0.1–0.2 mg |
Estimated nutrient ranges
- Calories
- 277–485 kcal
- Protein
- 12.6–20.1 g
- Carbohydrate
- 40.5–63.3 g
- Fat
- 6.8–16.4 g
- Sodium
- 23.7–48.7 mg
Formula for every ingredient and nutrient: USDA per-100-g amount × edible grams ÷ 100. Add first, then round with decimal half-up: whole kcal; at most one decimal for g and mg, with trailing zeroes removed. Small displayed amounts may round to zero.
Common questions
How many calories are in an Alaska roll?
277–485 kcal per whole homemade roll. This salmon-avocado-cucumber model leaves out crab and mayonnaise. Alaska roll is a restaurant name with variable recipes; this estimate does not cover every restaurant version.
Is this official nutrition data for the finished food?
No. USDA supplies generic ingredient records. The finished-food range is our estimate under the stated portions and recipe assumptions, not a brand or restaurant label. Actual food can fall outside it.
How do I adjust the serving?
Use each matching USDA record’s per-100-g amount × edible grams ÷ 100, then add the ingredients before rounding. Keep raw and cooked weights matched to their respective records; extra sauces and oils need separate entries.
📚 Sources and limits
- Delish: Alaska Roll — Ingredient combination only; crab and sauces are omitted from this model.
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy, April 2018 — full-precision records in the component and reference tables. Each source links its FDC ID. All quantities are our scenario assumptions; no third-party calorie totals are used.