Dried Cranberries vs Raisins: All Nutritional Differences

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

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Dried cranberries - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

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More Calories in Dried cranberries

At first glance, you can see that in dried cranberries is just a little more calories than in raisins.

Dried cranberries has 308 kcal per 100g and raisins 299 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 3%.

In dried cranberries and in raisins most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare dried cranberries with raisins in details.

Dried cranberries And Raisins Nutrition Difference

Calories:
dried cranberries - 3% more than raisins
Carbohydrates:
dried cranberries - 4% more than raisins
Fat:
dried cranberries - 336% more than raisins
Dietary fiber:
dried cranberries - 18% more than raisins
Protein:
raisins - 1841% more than dried cranberries
Water:
dried cranberries - 2% more than raisins

Raisins vs Dried cranberries: Vitamins and Minerals Comparison

per 100g	Dried cranberries	Raisins
Calories	308	299
Carbohydrates	82.8 g	79.32 g
Fat	1.09 g	0.25 g
Dietary fiber	5.3 g	4.5 g
Protein	0.17 g	3.3 g
Water	15.79 g	15.46 g
Calcium	9 mg	62 mg
Iron	0.39 mg	1.79 mg
Magnessium	4 mg	36 mg
Potassium	49 mg	744 mg
Sodium	5 mg	26 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.013 mg	0.106 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.028 mg	0.125 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	0.548 mg	0.766 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.038 mg	0.174 mg
Vitaminium C	0.2 mg	2.3 mg
Vitaminium E	2.1 mg	0.12 mg
Vitaminium K	0.008 mg	0.004 mg

Less protein in dried cranberries

It is aslo easy to see see that in dried cranberries is less protein than in raisins.

There is 3.3g per 100g of raisins and 0.17g per 100g of dried cranberries so using simple math we can see that difference is about 1841%.

More carbohydrates in dried cranberries

In dried cranberries is more carbohydrates than in raisins.

There is 79.32g/100g of carbohydrates in raisins and 82.8g/100g in dried cranberries so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 4%.

More fat in dried cranberries

In dried cranberries is more fats than in raisins.

The tables above show us that there is 0.25g/100g of fats in raisins and 1.09g/100g in dried cranberries. In this case difference is about 336%.