Calories In Baked Eggplant

Eggplant is a fruit that is cooked and prepared as a vegetable in many cultures. It is light in calories and contains many vitamins and minerals. Baking eggplant causes it to lose some of its water weight, making it smaller than in its raw form.

Energy Content

A 100 g serving of eggplant, which is about the size of a deck of playing cards, contains about 33 calories, 8.14 g of carbohydrates, 0.83 g of protein and 0.23 g of fat, according to the Nutrition.gov website. Any sauce, cheese or dressing added to it can increase the caloric content between 100 to 300 calories.

Vitamins and Minerals

Eggplant contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. One whole eggplant that weighs about 530 g -- or 1 lb. -- has 32 mg of calcium, 118 mg of phosphorus, 1,330 mg of potassium, 7 mg of vitamin C, 0.078 mg of folate and 1.8 mg of iron, according to dietitian Mary Grosvenor, author of "Nutrition From Science to Life."

Baking

FineCooking.com recommends that you bake eggplant for about an hour at 350 degrees F until the eggplant is slightly soft and just starting to collapse.