The debilitated attention in post-harvest management of lotus rhizomes (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn) is of serious concern to the food industry. Far too often, exposure to mechanical damage during post-harvest handling, transportation, and valorisation of lotus rhizomes scores low in its quality and leads to post-harvest losses, hence the detailed profiling of this biomaterial is much needed. In this study, the data for physical and mechanical/ engineering properties of lotus rhizomes of varying sizes were generated to facilitate its utilisation in designing post-harvest and processing machinery and also planning its processing and valorisation. Lotus rhizomes were classified into different sizes for assessing the requirement of grading and sorting devices in the future. The significant difference (P