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, less sodium, more calcium, more iron, more magnesium and more vitamin C.
Pick Bamboo shoots, cooked for more protein and more potassium.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better10.05 g13.91 gWIN
- Carbohydrate19.57 g13.82 g
- Fibermore is better—9.09 g
- Total sugarsless is better——
- Total fat0.86 g2 g
- Saturated fatless is betterWIN0.24 g0.46 g
- Sodiumless is betterWIN1223.81 mg2181.82 mg
- Potassiummore is better3052.38 mg4845.45 mgWIN
- Calciummore is betterWIN995.24 mg109.09 mg
- Ironmore is betterWIN10.76 mg2.18 mg
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN261.9 mg27.27 mg
- Vitamin Cmore is betterWIN195.71 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.

