Flounder (Fillet, Meat) vs Salmon: 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

Salmon vs Flounder: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	Flounder (fillet, meat)	Salmon
Calories	70	208
Fat	1.93 g	13.42 g
Protein	12.41 g	20.42 g
Water	84.63 g	64.89 g
Calcium	21 mg	9 mg
Iron	0.18 mg	0.34 mg
Magnessium	18 mg	27 mg
Phosphorus	0.1 mg	0.5 mg
Potassium	160 mg	363 mg
Sodium	296 mg	59 mg
Zink	0.1 mg	0.5 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.022 mg	0.207 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.02 mg	0.155 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	1.04 mg	8.672 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.098 mg	0.636 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	0.005 mg	0.026 mg
Vitaminium E	0.63 mg	3.55 mg

Less Calories in Flounder

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

Flounder has 70 kcal per 100g and salmon 208 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 197%.

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

See tables below to compare flounder with salmon in details.

Flounder And Salmon Nutrition Difference

Calories:
salmon - 197% more than flounder
Fat:
salmon - 595% more than flounder
Protein:
salmon - 65% more than flounder
Water:
flounder - 30% more than salmon

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Less protein in flounder

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

There is 20.42g per 100g of salmon and 12.41g per 100g of flounder so using simple math we can see that difference is about 65%.

Less fat in flounder

In flounder is less fats than in salmon.

The tables above show us that there is 13.42g/100g of fats in salmon and 1.93g/100g in flounder. In this case difference is about 595%.