Dead heat · 8 categories decided · 1 tie
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
It's a dead heat — each wins 4 of 8 match-ups.
Pick Baby lima beans, cooked for more protein, more potassium, more iron and more magnesium.
Pick Navy beans, cooked for more fiber, less sodium, more calcium and more vitamin C.
Evenly matched on saturated fat.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is betterWIN6.38 g5.88 g
- Carbohydrate18.5 g18.61 g
- Fibermore is better6.11 g7.5 gWIN
- Total sugarsless is better—0.26 g
- Total fat0.3 g0.44 g
- Saturated fatless is better0.07 g0.07 g
- Sodiumless is better189.68 mg0 mgWIN
- Potassiummore is betterWIN318.25 mg277.86 mg
- Calciummore is better23.02 mg49.29 mgWIN
- Ironmore is betterWIN1.9 mg1.69 mg
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN42.06 mg37.86 mg
- Vitamin Cmore is better0 mg0.64 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.

