Chicken breast, cooked leads 5–2 · 7 categories decided · 2 ties
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Chicken breast, cooked comes out ahead, winning 5 of 7 nutrient match-ups.
Pick Capon, roasted for less sodium and more iron.
Pick Chicken breast, cooked for more protein, less saturated fat, more potassium, more calcium and more magnesium.
Evenly matched on fiber and vitamin C.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better12.65 g18.8 gWIN
- Carbohydrate0 g0 g
- Fibermore is better0 g0 g
- Total sugarsless is better—0 g
- Total fat5.09 g2.16 g
- Saturated fatless is better1.42 g0.61 gWIN
- Sodiumless is betterWIN21.4 mg44.85 mg
- Potassiummore is better111.35 mg155.15 mgWIN
- Calciummore is better6.11 mg9.09 mgWIN
- Ironmore is betterWIN0.65 mg0.63 mg
- Magnesiummore is better10.48 mg17.58 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.

