Butternut Squash vs Yellow Squash : All Nutritional Differences

Where is more calories, protein, carbs - what is more healthy?

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Butternut squash - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Yellow squash - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

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More Calories in Butternut squash

At first glance, you can see that in butternut squash is much more calories than in yellow squash.

Butternut squash has 45 kcal per 100g and yellow squash 16 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 181%.

In butternut squash and in yellow squash most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare butternut squash with yellow squash in details.

Butternut squash And Yellow squash Nutrition Difference

Calories:
butternut squash - 181% more than yellow squash
Carbohydrates:
butternut squash - 249% more than yellow squash
Fat:
yellow squash - 80% more than butternut squash
Dietary fiber:
butternut squash - 82% more than yellow squash
Protein:
yellow squash - 21% more than butternut squash

Yellow squash vs Butternut squash: Vitamins and Minerals Comparison

per 100g	Butternut squash	Yellow squash
Calories	45	16
Carbohydrates	11.69 g	3.35 g
Fat	0.1 g	0.18 g
Dietary fiber	2 g	1.1 g
Protein	1 g	1.21 g
Calcium	48 mg	15 mg
Iron	0.7 mg	0.35 mg
Magnessium	34 mg	17 mg
Potassium	352 mg	262 mg
Sodium	4 mg	2 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.1 mg	0.048 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.02 mg	0.142 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	1.2 mg	0.487 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.154 mg	0.218 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	27 mg	0.029 mg
Vitaminium C	21 mg	17 mg
Vitaminium E	1.44 mg	0.12 mg
Vitaminium K	1.1 mg	0.003 mg

Less protein in butternut squash

It is aslo easy to see see that in butternut squash is less protein than in yellow squash.

There is 1.21g per 100g of yellow squash and 1g per 100g of butternut squash so using simple math we can see that difference is about 21%.

More carbohydrates in butternut squash

In butternut squash is more carbohydrates than in yellow squash.

There is 3.35g/100g of carbohydrates in yellow squash and 11.69g/100g in butternut squash so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 249%.

Less fat in butternut squash

In butternut squash is less fats than in yellow squash.

The tables above show us that there is 0.18g/100g of fats in yellow squash and 0.1g/100g in butternut squash. In this case difference is about 80%.