Amaranth leaves, cooked leads 7–1 · 8 categories decided
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Amaranth leaves, cooked comes out ahead, winning 7 of 8 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Amaranth leaves, cooked for less saturated fat, less sodium, more potassium, more calcium, more iron, more magnesium and more vitamin C.
Pick Asparagus, canned for more protein.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better10.05 g11.26 gWIN
- Carbohydrate19.57 g12.95 g
- Fibermore is better—8.42 g
- Total sugarsless is better—5.58 g
- Total fat0.86 g3.42 g
- Saturated fatless is betterWIN0.24 g0.77 g
- Sodiumless is betterWIN1223.81 mg1510.53 mg
- Potassiummore is betterWIN3052.38 mg905.26 mg
- Calciummore is betterWIN995.24 mg84.21 mg
- Ironmore is betterWIN10.76 mg9.63 mg
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN261.9 mg52.63 mg
- Vitamin Cmore is betterWIN195.71 mg96.84 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.

