Butter vs Peanut Butter: Health Insights

More Calories in Butter

At first glance, you can see that in butter is more calories than in peanut butter.

Butter has 717 kcal per 100g and peanut butter 589 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 22%.

In butter and in peanut butter most calories came from fat.

See tables below to compare butter with peanut butter in details.

Butter And Peanut butter Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  butter - 22% more than peanut butter
• Carbohydrates:
  peanut butter - 35850% more than butter
• Fat:
  butter - 62% more than peanut butter
• Protein:
  peanut butter - 2731% more than butter
• Water:
  butter - 1318% more than peanut butter

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Less protein in butter

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

There is 24.06g per 100g of peanut butter and 0.85g per 100g of butter so using simple math we can see that difference is about 2731%.

Less carbohydrates in butter

In butter is less carbohydrates than in peanut butter.

There is 21.57g/100g of carbohydrates in peanut butter and 0.06g/100g in butter so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 35850%.

More fat in butter

In butter is more fats than in peanut butter.

The tables above show us that there is 49.94g/100g of fats in peanut butter and 81.11g/100g in butter. In this case difference is about 62%.