Ground beef, 95% lean, cooked leads 5–2 · 7 categories decided · 3 ties
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Ground beef, 95% lean, cooked comes out ahead, winning 5 of 7 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Beef chuck roast, cooked for less sodium and more calcium.
Pick Ground beef, 95% lean, cooked for more protein, less saturated fat, more potassium, more iron and more magnesium.
Evenly matched on fiber, sugar and vitamin C.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better10.33 g15.73 gWIN
- Carbohydrate0 g0 g
- Fibermore is better0 g0 g
- Total sugarsless is better0 g0 g
- Total fat6.2 g3.62 g
- Saturated fatless is better2.44 g1.58 gWIN
- Sodiumless is betterWIN16.96 mg43.29 mg
- Potassiummore is better83.04 mg229.27 mgWIN
- Calciummore is betterWIN6.01 mg5.49 mg
- Ironmore is better0.84 mg1.74 mgWIN
- Magnesiummore is better6.71 mg14.63 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.

