Butter vs Mascarpone Cheese: All Nutritional Differences

Fact 1: There is Less Calories in Butter

At first glance, you can see that in butter is much less calories than in mascarpone.

Butter has 717 kcal per 100g and mascarpone 429 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 67 %.

In butter and in mascarpone most calories came from fat.

See tables below to compare butter with mascarpone in details.

Fact 2: Butter And Mascarpone Nutrition Difference

• Calories: butter - 67% more than mascarpone
• Carbohydrates: mascarpone - 5850% more than butter
• Fat: butter - 89% more than mascarpone
• Protein: mascarpone - 320% more than butter

Less protein in butter

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

There is 3.57g per 100g of mascarpone and 0.85g per 100g of butter so using simple math we can see that difference is about 320 %.

Less carbohydrates in butter

In butter is less carbohydrates than in mascarpone.

There is 3.57g/100g of carbohydrates in mascarpone and 0.06g/100g in butter so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 5850 %.

More fat in butter

In butter is more fats than in mascarpone.

The tables above show us that there is 42.86g/100g of fats in mascarpone and 81.11g/100g in butter. In this case difference is about 89 %.

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