Calories in couscous, tagine and North African dishes: sourced values, dish by dish
In short
The ANSES CIQUAL 2025 table (updated 19 Nov 2025) lists several ready-made North African dishes, such as couscous with mutton (code 25029), prepacked mutton tagine (25159) and chorba frik soup (25915), and Radish shows them with their code. For a home-made dish, the app also offers five Maghreb recipes (couscous royal, chicken tagine with olives and lemon, harira, chakchouka, brik) calculated ingredient by ingredient from CIQUAL values.
A couscous or a tagine has no single value: the share of semolina, meat, vegetables and oil changes from one kitchen to the next. The most reliable route is a sourced entry first, then a recipe when the dish is home-made.
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The CIQUAL entries to know
These are the exact Ciqual 2025 labels (in French, as published) found in Radish's food base, with their code. The values are those published by ANSES; the app's food sheet shows the table and the code, which you can look up on ciqual.anses.fr.
| Food (CIQUAL label, in French) | CIQUAL code |
|---|---|
| Semoule ou graine de couscous complète, cuite, sans sel ajouté | 9685 |
| Semoule ou graine de couscous semi-complète, cuite, sans sel ajouté | 9686 |
| Graine de couscous (semoule de blé dur précuite), à cuire | 9681 |
| Légumes pour couscous, cuits | 20497 |
| Couscous au mouton | 25029 |
| Couscous au poisson | 25107 |
| Couscous de légumes, préemballé | 25150 |
| Couscous à la viande, préemballé | 25152 |
| Tajine de mouton, préemballé | 25159 |
| Merguez, boeuf et mouton, crue | 30156 |
| Brick à l'oeuf, fait maison, cuit | 25557 |
| Soupe chorba frik, à base de viande et de frik | 25915 |
| Feuille de brick ou khatfa, préemballée | 51550 |
"Préemballé" means a shop-bought product: for a restaurant or home-made dish it gives an order of magnitude, not the value of your plate.
A home-made dish: use a recipe
Radish's library has five Maghreb recipes: couscous royal (semolina, chicken, merguez and chickpeas), chicken tagine with olives and lemon, harira, Tunisian chakchouka and brik with egg and tuna. Their values are calculated ingredient by ingredient from the Ciqual 2025 table, using cooked weights. You can also build your own recipe with your quantities: see create your own recipe and how the app calculates a home recipe.
In Arabic too
Common dishes carry an Arabic name in the app (for example "طاجين دجاج بالليمون" or "كسكسي دجاج وخضار"), and the interface runs right to left. See the calorie app in Arabic and Hindi.
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Frequently asked questions
Where can I find sourced calories for couscous?
In the ANSES CIQUAL table, which includes couscous with mutton (code 25029), couscous with fish (25107) and cooked wholemeal or semi-wholemeal couscous (9685, 9686). Radish shows these entries with their code.
Is tagine in the CIQUAL table?
Yes, as "Tajine de mouton, préemballé" (prepacked mutton tagine, code 25159). For a home-made tagine, a recipe built from your ingredients is closer.
Does Radish have North African recipes?
Yes, five: couscous royal, chicken tagine with olives and lemon, harira, Tunisian chakchouka and brik with egg and tuna, calculated from Ciqual 2025 values.
For the basic ingredients of these dishes, our food pages give the values with their source: cooked couscous, cooked chickpeas, carrot, olive oil and date.
General information about where nutrition values come from, not medical or dietary advice.
🔎 Method & sources. Labels and codes read on 6 Nov 2026 in the app's embedded food base and in the Ciqual 2025 table (ANSES, updated 19 Nov 2025, DOI 10.57745/RDMHWY). Recipes: the app's Maghreb and Levant library file, Ciqual 2025 values only. No value is copied onto this page: read them in the app and on the ANSES site. Our method →