Ground beef, 85% lean, cooked leads 6–1 · 7 categories decided · 3 ties
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Ground beef, 85% lean, cooked comes out ahead, winning 6 of 7 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Beef chuck roast, cooked for less sodium.
Pick Ground beef, 85% lean, cooked for more protein, less saturated fat, more potassium, more calcium, more iron and more magnesium.
Evenly matched on fiber, sugar and vitamin C.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better10.33 g10.61 gWIN
- Carbohydrate0 g0 g
- Fibermore is better0 g0 g
- Total sugarsless is better0 g0 g
- Total fat6.2 g6.04 g
- Saturated fatless is better2.44 g2.3 gWIN
- Sodiumless is betterWIN16.96 mg34.05 mg
- Potassiummore is better83.04 mg150.43 mgWIN
- Calciummore is better6.01 mg8.62 mgWIN
- Ironmore is better0.84 mg1.16 mgWIN
- Magnesiummore is better6.71 mg9.48 mgWIN
- Vitamin Cmore is better0 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.

