Amaranth leaves, cooked leads 5–3 · 8 categories decided
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Amaranth leaves, cooked comes out ahead, winning 5 of 8 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Amaranth leaves, cooked for more potassium, more calcium, more iron, more magnesium and more vitamin C.
Pick Crimini mushrooms, raw for more protein, less saturated fat and less sodium.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better10.05 g11.36 gWIN
- Carbohydrate19.57 g19.55 g
- Fibermore is better—2.73 g
- Total sugarsless is better—7.82 g
- Total fat0.86 g0.45 g
- Saturated fatless is better0.24 g0.06 gWIN
- Sodiumless is better1223.81 mg27.27 mgWIN
- Potassiummore is betterWIN3052.38 mg2036.36 mg
- Calciummore is betterWIN995.24 mg81.82 mg
- Ironmore is betterWIN10.76 mg1.82 mg
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN261.9 mg40.91 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.

