Flounder (Fillet, Meat) vs Halibut (Fillet, Meat): Make Healthy Choices

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

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Flounder (fillet, meat) - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Halibut vs Flounder: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	Flounder (fillet, meat)	Halibut (fillet, meat)
Calories	70	186
Fat	1.93 g	13.84 g
Protein	12.41 g	14.37 g
Water	84.63 g	70.27 g
Calcium	21 mg	3 mg
Iron	0.18 mg	0.66 mg
Magnessium	18 mg	26 mg
Phosphorus	0.1 mg	0.1 mg
Potassium	160 mg	268 mg
Sodium	296 mg	80 mg
Zink	0.1 mg	0.1 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.022 mg	0.06 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.02 mg	0.08 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	1.04 mg	1.5 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.098 mg	0.42 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	0.005 mg	0.001 mg
Vitaminium E	0.63 mg	0.73 mg

Less Calories in Flounder

At first glance, you can see that in flounder is much less calories than in halibut.

Flounder has 70 kcal per 100g and halibut 186 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 166%.

Additionally, it is also easy to notice that most of the calories in flounder cames from protein and in halibut from fat.

See tables below to compare flounder with halibut in details.

Flounder And Halibut Nutrition Difference

Calories:
halibut - 166% more than flounder
Fat:
halibut - 617% more than flounder
Protein:
halibut - 16% more than flounder
Water:
flounder - 20% more than halibut

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Less protein in flounder

It is aslo easy to see see that in flounder is less protein than in halibut.

There is 14.37g per 100g of halibut and 12.41g per 100g of flounder so using simple math we can see that difference is about 16%.

Less fat in flounder

In flounder is less fats than in halibut.

The tables above show us that there is 13.84g/100g of fats in halibut and 1.93g/100g in flounder. In this case difference is about 617%.