Butter vs Sour Cream (No Fat): What Should You Choose?

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Butter - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition
Butter - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Sour cream vs Butter: Nutrition Comparison

per 100gButterSour cream (no fat)
Calories717 74
Carbohydrates0.06 g15.6 g
Protein0.85 g3.1 g
Water16.17 g80.6 g
Calcium24 mg125 mg
Magnessium2 mg10 mg
Phosphorus7 mg73 mg
Potassium24 mg129 mg
Sodium11 mg141 mg
Zink7 mg73 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.005 mg0.04 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.034 mg0.15 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)0.042 mg0.07 mg
Vitaminium B60.003 mg0.02 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.003 mg0.011 mg

More Calories in Butter

At first glance, you can see that in butter is much more calories than in sour cream.

Butter has 717 kcal per 100g and sour cream 74 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 869%.

Additionally, it is also easy to notice that most of the calories in butter cames from fat and in sour cream from protein.

See tables below to compare butter with sour cream in details.

Butter And Sour cream Nutrition Difference

  • Calories:
    butter - 869% more than sour cream
  • Carbohydrates:
    sour cream - 25900% more than butter
  • Protein:
    sour cream - 265% more than butter
  • Water:
    sour cream - 398% more than butter

Less protein in butter

It is aslo easy to see see that in butter is less protein than in sour cream.

There is 3.1g per 100g of sour cream and 0.85g per 100g of butter so using simple math we can see that difference is about 265%.

Less carbohydrates in butter

In butter is less carbohydrates than in sour cream.

There is 15.6g/100g of carbohydrates in sour cream and 0.06g/100g in butter so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 25900%.

Butter

717kcal
  • Calories717
  • Carbohydrates0.06 g
  • Protein0.85 g
  • Water16.17 g
Butter calories per:
100g
| ounce | tablespoon | slice | cup | half cup

Calories source

  • 0% CARBS.
  • 0% PROTEIN
  • 100% FAT

Sour cream (no fat)

74kcal
  • Calories74
  • Carbohydrates15.6 g
  • Protein3.1 g
  • Water80.6 g
Sour cream (no fat) calories per:
100g
| ounce | tablespoon | teaspoon | glass | cup | half cup

Calories source

  • 83% CARBS
  • 17% PROTEIN
  • 0% FAT

Vitamins: sour cream vs butter

  • Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine):
    sour cream - 700% more than butter
  • Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin):
    sour cream - 341% more than butter
  • Vitaminium B3 (Niacin):
    sour cream - 67% more than butter
  • Vitaminium B6:
    sour cream - 567% more than butter
  • Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid):
    sour cream - 267% more than butter

Minerals: butter vs sour cream

  • Calcium:
    sour cream - 421% more than butter
  • Magnessium:
    sour cream - 400% more than butter
  • Phosphorus:
    sour cream - 943% more than butter
  • Potassium:
    sour cream - 438% more than butter
  • Sodium:
    sour cream - 1182% more than butter
  • Zink:
    sour cream - 943% more than butter
Marcin Piotrowicz
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Marcin Piotrowicz

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All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.

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