Amaranth leaves, cooked leads 6–2 · 8 categories decided
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Amaranth leaves, cooked comes out ahead, winning 6 of 8 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Amaranth leaves, cooked for less saturated fat, more potassium, more calcium, more iron, more magnesium and more vitamin C.
Pick Arugula, raw for more protein and less sodium.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better10.05 g10.32 gWIN
- Carbohydrate19.57 g14.6 g
- Fibermore is better—6.4 g
- Total sugarsless is better—8.2 g
- Total fat0.86 g2.64 g
- Saturated fatless is betterWIN0.24 g0.34 g
- Sodiumless is better1223.81 mg108 mgWIN
- Potassiummore is betterWIN3052.38 mg1476 mg
- Calciummore is betterWIN995.24 mg640 mg
- Ironmore is betterWIN10.76 mg5.84 mg
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN261.9 mg188 mg
- Vitamin Cmore is betterWIN195.71 mg60 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.

