Navy beans, cooked leads 5–3 · 8 categories decided · 1 tie
Each value is per 100 g edible portion.
The verdict
Navy beans, cooked comes out ahead, winning 5 of 8 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Baby lima beans, cooked for less saturated fat, more potassium and more iron.
Pick Navy beans, cooked for more protein, more fiber, less sodium, more calcium and more vitamin C.
Evenly matched on magnesium.
Head-to-head
- Energy126 kcal140 kcal
- Proteinmore is better8.04 g8.23 gWIN
- Carbohydrate23.31 g26.05 g
- Fibermore is better7.7 g10.5 gWIN
- Total sugarsless is better—0.37 g
- Total fat0.38 g0.62 g
- Saturated fatless is betterWIN0.09 g0.1 g
- Sodiumless is better239 mg0 mgWIN
- Potassiummore is betterWIN401 mg389 mg
- Calciummore is better29 mg69 mgWIN
- Ironmore is betterWIN2.4 mg2.36 mg
- Magnesiummore is better53 mg53 mg
- Vitamin Cmore is better0 mg0.9 mgWIN
- 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.

