Lima beans, cooked leads 5–3 · 8 categories decided · 1 tie
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Lima beans, cooked comes out ahead, winning 5 of 8 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Adzuki beans, cooked for less saturated fat, more calcium and more magnesium.
Pick Lima beans, cooked for more protein, more fiber, less sodium, more potassium and more iron.
Evenly matched on vitamin C.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better5.88 g6.78 gWIN
- Carbohydrate19.35 g18.16 g
- Fibermore is better5.7 g6.09 gWIN
- Total sugarsless is better—2.52 g
- Total fat0.08 g0.33 g
- Saturated fatless is betterWIN0.03 g0.08 g
- Sodiumless is better190.63 mg1.74 mgWIN
- Potassiummore is better415.63 mg441.74 mgWIN
- Calciummore is betterWIN21.88 mg14.78 mg
- Ironmore is better1.56 mg2.08 mgWIN
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN40.63 mg37.39 mg
- Vitamin Cmore is better0 mg0 mg
- Vitamin Dmore is better——
Winners are decided by deterministic per-metric rules on the stated basis; ties and missing data don’t score (missing ≠ zero). Educational information only — not medical advice.

