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Sweet Potato vs Rice nutrition

Baked sweet potato has more sugar, fiber and Vitamin C. Cooked white rice has more calories, carbs and protein.

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  • Baked sweet potato100 g
  • Cooked white rice100 g

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Exact amounts and % Daily Value
Exact amounts per 100 g, with each one's share of the FDA Daily Value — bold marks the larger amount
NutrientBaked sweet potatoCooked white riceDaily Value
Calories90 kcal (5%)130 kcal (7%)2,000 kcal
Protein2 g (4%)2.7 g (5%)50 g
Fat0.15 g (<1%)0.28 g (<1%)78 g
Saturated fat0.05 g (<1%)0.08 g (<1%)20 g
Carbs20.7 g (8%)28.2 g (10%)275 g
Fiber3.3 g (12%)0.4 g (1%)28 g
Sugar6.5 g0.05 gnone set
Cholesterol0 mg (0%)0 mg (0%)300 mg
Salt (sodium)36 mg (2%)1 mg (<1%)2,300 mg
Potassium475 mg (10%)35 mg (<1%)4,700 mg
Calcium38 mg (3%)10 mg (<1%)1,300 mg
Iron0.69 mg (4%)1.2 mg (7%)18 mg
Magnesium27 mg (6%)12 mg (3%)420 mg
Vitamin A961 µg (107%)0 µg (0%)900 µg
Vitamin C19.6 mg (22%)0 mg (0%)90 mg

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How the numbers are taken. Amounts are per 100 g of the edible part, from USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy, public domain), in the state named — raw, boiled, roasted and so on. Percentages use the FDA Daily Values for adults and children aged 4 and over, set around a 2,000-calorie diet; your own needs can be different. This site compares amounts — it does not give diet or medical advice. Sources and limits.

What is being compared

This page compares baked sweet potato and cooked white rice as USDA FoodData Central lists them: “Sweet potato, cooked, baked in skin, flesh, without salt” (FDC 168483) and “Rice, white, long-grain, regular, enriched, cooked” (FDC 168878). All figures start from 100 grams of the edible part. A search for “sweet potato” is taken here as baked sweet potato; sweet potato and boiled sweet potato are in the comparer above. A search for “rice” is taken here as cooked white rice; cooked brown rice, dry white rice, dry brown rice and cooked wild rice are in the comparer above. One is listed baked and the other cooked. Cooking changes how much water is in 100 grams, so the same food can look richer or poorer per 100 g depending on its state.

Per 100 grams

Per 100 grams, baked sweet potato has more fiber (3.3 vs 0.4 g, 8.2 times as much), sugars (6.5 vs 0.05 g, about 130 times as much), sodium (36 vs 1 mg, about 36 times as much), potassium (475 vs 35 mg, about 14 times as much), calcium (38 vs 10 mg, 3.8 times as much), magnesium (27 vs 12 mg, 2.3 times as much), vitamin A (961 vs 0 µg, against none) and vitamin C (19.6 vs 0 mg, against none). Cooked white rice has more calories (130 vs 90 kcal), protein (2.7 vs 2 g), fat (0.28 vs 0.15 g, 1.9 times as much), saturated fat (0.08 vs 0.05 g, 1.6 times as much), carbohydrate (28.2 vs 20.7 g) and iron (1.2 vs 0.69 mg, 1.7 times as much). They are within 3% of each other for cholesterol.

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Per serving

A serving as USDA measures it is 1 cup of baked sweet potato (200 g) and 1 cup of cooked white rice (158 g). The baked sweet potato serving is 1.3 times as heavy, so per serving its numbers grow relative to the other. No nutrient changes leader when you switch from 100 g to servings. One serving is 180 kcal of baked sweet potato against 205 kcal of cooked white rice.

For the same calories

To get 100 kcal you would eat 111 g of baked sweet potato or 76.9 g of cooked white rice. At that equal energy, baked sweet potato carries 2.2 g of protein and cooked white rice 2.1 g. Fiber per 100 kcal is 3.7 g against 0.31 g. Measured per 100 kcal instead of per 100 g, the larger amount moves for protein (to baked sweet potato) and carbohydrate (to baked sweet potato).

Where the calories come from

Roughly, 9% of the energy in baked sweet potato comes from protein, 1% from fat and 90% from carbohydrate; for cooked white rice it is 9%, 2% and 89%. These shares use the general 4, 9 and 4 kcal per gram and can differ slightly from USDA's own energy factors.

Against the Daily Value

1 cup of baked sweet potato reaches its largest shares of the Daily Value in vitamin A (214%), vitamin C (44%) and fiber (24%); 1 cup of cooked white rice reaches its largest shares of the Daily Value in carbohydrate (16%), iron (11%) and protein (9%). Daily Values are the FDA label reference amounts for adults and children aged 4 and over, set around a 2,000-calorie diet; they are a yardstick for reading labels, not a target for any one person.

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