Lettuce vs Spinach: All Nutritional Differences

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Less Calories in Lettuce

At first glance, you can see that in lettuce is much less calories than in spinach.

Lettuce has 15 kcal per 100g and spinach 23 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 53%.

In lettuce and in spinach most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare lettuce with spinach in details.

Lettuce And Spinach Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  spinach - 53% more than lettuce
• Carbohydrates:
  spinach - 26% more than lettuce
• Fat:
  spinach - 160% more than lettuce
• Dietary fiber:
  spinach - 69% more than lettuce
• Protein:
  spinach - 110% more than lettuce

Less protein in lettuce

It is aslo easy to see see that in lettuce is less protein than in spinach.

There is 2.86g per 100g of spinach and 1.36g per 100g of lettuce so using simple math we can see that difference is about 110%.

Less carbohydrates in lettuce

In lettuce is less carbohydrates than in spinach.

There is 3.63g/100g of carbohydrates in spinach and 2.87g/100g in lettuce so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 26%.

Less fat in lettuce

In lettuce is less fats than in spinach.

The tables above show us that there is 0.39g/100g of fats in spinach and 0.15g/100g in lettuce. In this case difference is about 160%.