Octopus vs Shrimp: Nutrition Comparison

Less Calories in Octopus

At first glance, you can see that in octopus is just a little less calories than in shrimp.

Octopus has 82 kcal per 100g and shrimp 85 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 4%.

In octopus and in shrimp most calories came from protein.

See tables below to compare octopus with shrimp in details.

Octopus And Shrimp Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  shrimp - 4% more than octopus
• Fat:
  octopus - 104% more than shrimp
• Protein:
  shrimp - 35% more than octopus
• Water:
  octopus - 2% more than shrimp

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Less protein in octopus

It is aslo easy to see see that in octopus is less protein than in shrimp.

There is 20.1g per 100g of shrimp and 14.91g per 100g of octopus so using simple math we can see that difference is about 35%.

More fat in octopus

In octopus is more fats than in shrimp.

The tables above show us that there is 0.51g/100g of fats in shrimp and 1.04g/100g in octopus. In this case difference is about 104%.