Butternut Squash vs Spinach: Nutrition Guide

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

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Butternut squash - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Spinach vs Butternut squash: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	Butternut squash	Spinach
Calories	45	23
Carbohydrates	11.69 g	3.63 g
Fat	0.1 g	0.39 g
Dietary fiber	2 g	2.2 g
Protein	1 g	2.86 g
Calcium	48 mg	99 mg
Iron	0.7 mg	2.71 mg
Magnessium	34 mg	79 mg
Potassium	352 mg	558 mg
Sodium	4 mg	79 mg
Zink	0.15 mg	0.53 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.1 mg	0.078 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.02 mg	0.189 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	1.2 mg	0.724 mg
Vitaminium B5	0.4 mg	0.065 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.154 mg	0.195 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	27 mg	194 mg
Vitaminium C	21 mg	28.1 mg
Vitaminium E	1.44 mg	2.03 mg
Vitaminium K	1.1 mg	482.9 mg
Beta karoten	4226 mg	5626 mg

More Calories in Butternut squash

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

Butternut squash has 45 kcal per 100g and spinach 23 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 96%.

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

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

Butternut squash And Spinach Nutrition Difference

Calories:
butternut squash - 96% more than spinach
Carbohydrates:
butternut squash - 222% more than spinach
Fat:
spinach - 290% more than butternut squash
Dietary fiber:
spinach - 10% more than butternut squash
Protein:
spinach - 186% more than butternut squash

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Less protein in butternut squash

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

There is 2.86g per 100g of spinach and 1g per 100g of butternut squash so using simple math we can see that difference is about 186%.

More carbohydrates in butternut squash

In butternut squash is more carbohydrates than in spinach.

There is 3.63g/100g of carbohydrates in spinach and 11.69g/100g in butternut squash so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 222%.

Less fat in butternut squash

In butternut squash is less fats than in spinach.

The tables above show us that there is 0.39g/100g of fats in spinach and 0.1g/100g in butternut squash. In this case difference is about 290%.