Halibut (Fillet, Meat) vs Shark Meat: All Nutritional Differences

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

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

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

Shark meat - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

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More Calories in Halibut

At first glance, you can see that in halibut is more calories than in shark meat.

Halibut has 186 kcal per 100g and shark meat 130 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 43%.

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

See tables below to compare halibut with shark meat in details.

Halibut And Shark meat Nutrition Difference

Calories:
halibut - 43% more than shark meat
Fat:
halibut - 207% more than shark meat
Protein:
shark meat - 46% more than halibut
Water:
shark meat - 5% more than halibut

Shark meat vs Halibut: Vitamins and Minerals Comparison

per 100g	Halibut (fillet, meat)	Shark meat
Calories	186	130
Fat	13.84 g	4.51 g
Protein	14.37 g	20.98 g
Water	70.27 g	73.58 g
Calcium	3 mg	34 mg
Iron	0.66 mg	0.84 mg
Magnessium	26 mg	49 mg
Phosphorus	0.1 mg	0.1 mg
Potassium	268 mg	160 mg
Sodium	80 mg	79 mg
Zink	0.1 mg	0.1 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.06 mg	0.042 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.08 mg	0.062 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	1.5 mg	2.938 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.42 mg	0.4 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	0.001 mg	0.003 mg
Vitaminium E	0.73 mg	1 mg

Less protein in halibut

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

There is 20.98g per 100g of shark meat and 14.37g per 100g of halibut so using simple math we can see that difference is about 46%.

More fat in halibut

In halibut is more fats than in shark meat.

The tables above show us that there is 4.51g/100g of fats in shark meat and 13.84g/100g in halibut. In this case difference is about 207%.