Sunflower Seeds vs Peanuts: Which Has More Calories?


Per 100 g, Sunflower Seeds has 584 kcal and Peanuts has 563 kcal, so Peanuts has 4% fewer calories.

Peanuts has more protein (25.2 g vs 20.8 g). Sunflower Seeds has more carbohydrates (20 g vs 16.5 g). Relative to calories, Peanuts is the better protein source (4.47 g vs 3.56 g of protein per 100 kcal).

Sunflower Seeds - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition
Sunflower Seeds - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Sunflower
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* The % Daily Value (DV) shows how much a nutrient in one serving of food contributes to your total daily diet. A 2000-calorie daily intake is used as a general guideline for nutrition advice.
Peanuts
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handful (45g)cup (125g)half cup (62.5g)
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* The % Daily Value (DV) shows how much a nutrient in one serving of food contributes to your total daily diet. A 2000-calorie daily intake is used as a general guideline for nutrition advice.

Sunflower vs Peanuts 100g Compare


per 100gSunflower SeedsPeanuts
Calories584 563
Carbohydrates20 g16.54 g
Fat51.46 g48.75 g
Dietary fiber8.6 g8.5 g
Protein20.78 g25.19 g
Calcium78 mg89 mg
Iron5.25 mg2.55 mg
Magnessium325 mg171 mg
Potassium645 mg690 mg
Sodium9 mg10 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)1.48 mg0.653 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.355 mg0.131 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)8.335 mg12.375 mg
Vitaminium B51.13 mg1.767 mg
Vitaminium B61.345 mg0.346 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)227 µg0.239 µg
Vitaminium E35.17 mg6.56 mg

More Calories in Sunflower

At first glance, you can see that in sunflower is just a little more calories than in peanuts.

Sunflower has 584 kcal per 100g and peanuts 563 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 4%.

In sunflower and in peanuts most calories came from fat.

See tables below to compare sunflower with peanuts in details.

Sunflower Seeds 100g

584kcal

Calories source

  • 13% CARBS.
  • 13% PROTEIN
  • 74% FAT

Peanuts 100g

563kcal

Calories source

  • 11% CARBS
  • 17% PROTEIN
  • 72% FAT

About the data

Nutrition values on this page are given per 100 g of the food and are based on the official United States Department of Agriculture FoodData Central database. The exact record used for each food is linked under the tables.

Marcin Piotrowicz – calories-info.com creator · Healthy diet and healthy lifestyle promoter. The information is for general purposes and is not medical or dietary advice.