Oyster Mushrooms vs Shiitake Mushrooms: All Nutritional Differences

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

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Marcin Piotrowicz

Oyster mushrooms - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Shiitake mushrooms - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Fact 1: There is Less Calories in Oyster mushrooms

At first glance, you can see that in oyster mushrooms is just a little less calories than in Shiitake mushrooms.

Oyster mushrooms has 33 kcal per 100g and Shiitake mushrooms 34 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 3%.

In oyster mushroom and in Shiitake mushroom most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare oyster mushrooms with Shiitake mushrooms in details.

Fact 2: Oyster mushrooms And Shiitake mushrooms Nutrition Difference

Calories: Shiitake mushrooms - 3% more than oyster mushrooms
Carbohydrates: Shiitake mushrooms - 11% more than oyster mushrooms
Fat: Shiitake mushrooms - 20% more than oyster mushrooms
Dietary fiber: Shiitake mushrooms - 9% more than oyster mushrooms
Protein: oyster mushrooms - 48% more than Shiitake mushrooms
Water: Shiitake mushrooms - 1% more than oyster mushrooms

Shiitake mushrooms vs Oyster mushrooms: Vitamins and Minerals Comparison

per 100g	Oyster mushrooms	Shiitake mushrooms
Calories	33	34
Carbohydrates	6.09 g	6.79 g
Fat	0.41 g	0.49 g
Dietary fiber	2.3 g	2.5 g
Protein	3.31 g	2.24 g
Water	89.18 g	89.74 g
Calcium	3 mg	2 mg
Iron	1.33 mg	0.41 mg
Magnessium	18 mg	20 mg
Potassium	420 mg	304 mg
Sodium	18 mg	9 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.125 mg	0.015 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.349 mg	0.217 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	4.956 mg	3.877 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.11 mg	0.293 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	0.038 mg	0.013 mg

More protein in oyster mushrooms

It is aslo easy to see see that in oyster mushrooms is more protein than in Shiitake mushrooms.

There is 2.24g per 100g of Shiitake mushrooms and 3.31g per 100g of oyster mushrooms so using simple math we can see that difference is about 48%.

Less carbohydrates in oyster mushrooms

In oyster mushrooms is less carbohydrates than in Shiitake mushrooms.

There is 6.79g/100g of carbohydrates in Shiitake mushrooms and 6.09g/100g in oyster mushrooms so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 11%.

Less fat in oyster mushrooms

In oyster mushrooms is less fats than in Shiitake mushrooms.

The tables above show us that there is 0.49g/100g of fats in Shiitake mushrooms and 0.41g/100g in oyster mushrooms. In this case difference is about 20%.

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