Butternut Squash vs Tomato: Nutrition Comparison

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

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Butternut squash - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Tomato vs Butternut squash: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	Butternut squash	Tomato
Calories	45	18
Carbohydrates	11.69 g	3.9 g
Fat	0.1 g	0.2 g
Dietary fiber	2 g	1.2 g
Protein	1 g	0.9 g
Calcium	48 mg	10 mg
Iron	0.7 mg	0.3 mg
Magnessium	34 mg	11 mg
Phosphorus	33 mg	24 mg
Potassium	352 mg	237 mg
Sodium	4 mg	5 mg
Zink	0.15 mg	0.17 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.1 mg	0.037 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	1.2 mg	0.594 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.154 mg	0.08 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	27 mg	15 mg
Vitaminium C	21 mg	13 mg
Vitaminium E	1.44 mg	0.54 mg
Vitaminium K	1.1 mg	7.9 mg
Beta karoten	4226 mg	101 mg

More Calories in Butternut squash

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

Butternut squash has 45 kcal per 100g and tomato 18 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 150%.

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

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

Butternut squash And Tomato Nutrition Difference

Calories:
butternut squash - 150% more than tomato
Carbohydrates:
butternut squash - 200% more than tomato
Fat:
tomato - 100% more than butternut squash
Dietary fiber:
butternut squash - 67% more than tomato
Protein:
butternut squash - 11% more than tomato

Add Butternut squash to calculator

Add Tomato to calculator

More protein in butternut squash

It is aslo easy to see see that in butternut squash is more protein than in tomato.

There is 0.9g per 100g of tomato and 1g per 100g of butternut squash so using simple math we can see that difference is about 11%.

More carbohydrates in butternut squash

In butternut squash is more carbohydrates than in tomato.

There is 3.9g/100g of carbohydrates in tomato and 11.69g/100g in butternut squash so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 200%.

Less fat in butternut squash

In butternut squash is less fats than in tomato.

The tables above show us that there is 0.2g/100g of fats in tomato and 0.1g/100g in butternut squash. In this case difference is about 100%.