Dead heat · 8 categories decided · 1 tie
Each value is per 100 g edible portion.
The verdict
It's a dead heat — each wins 4 of 8 match-ups.
Pick Black beans, cooked for more fiber, less sodium, more iron and more magnesium.
Pick Cranberry (roman) beans, cooked for more protein, less saturated fat, more potassium and more calcium.
Evenly matched on vitamin C.
Head-to-head
- Energy132 kcal136 kcal
- Proteinmore is better8.86 g9.34 gWIN
- Carbohydrate23.71 g24.46 g
- Fibermore is betterWIN8.7 g8.6 g
- Total sugarsless is better0.32 g—
- Total fat0.54 g0.46 g
- Saturated fatless is better0.14 g0.12 gWIN
- Sodiumless is betterWIN1 mg237 mg
- Potassiummore is better355 mg387 mgWIN
- Calciummore is better27 mg50 mgWIN
- Ironmore is betterWIN2.1 mg2.09 mg
- Magnesiummore is betterWIN70 mg50 mg
- 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.

