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 Mushrooms, raw for more protein, less saturated fat and less sodium.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better10.05 g14.05 gWIN
- Carbohydrate19.57 g14.82 g
- Fibermore is better—4.55 g
- Total sugarsless is better—9 g
- Total fat0.86 g1.55 g
- Saturated fatless is better0.24 g0.23 gWIN
- Sodiumless is better1223.81 mg22.73 mgWIN
- Potassiummore is betterWIN3052.38 mg1445.45 mg
- Calciummore is betterWIN995.24 mg13.64 mg
- Ironmore is betterWIN10.76 mg2.27 mg
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN261.9 mg40.91 mg
- Vitamin Cmore is betterWIN195.71 mg9.55 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.

