Calories in boiled red cabbage: 15 kcal per 100 g

Q: How many calories are in a portion of red cabbage?

A typical portion (80 g, one of your five a day) gives 12 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 15 kcal.

Q: Is red cabbage high in vitamin C?

Yes. Cabbage, red, boiled in unsalted water has 32 mg vitamin C per 100 g, 40 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

Q: Does boiling change the vitamin B6 in red cabbage?

Yes. Per 100 g, vitamin B6 goes from 0.09 mg raw to 0.04 mg boiled. Part of that is the vitamin or mineral itself changing, part is the change in water content.

Q: Which vitamins and minerals does red cabbage have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin C (32 mg, 40 %), folate (0.031 mg, 16 %) and manganese (0.2 mg, 10 %) per 100 g.

What’s in an 80 g portion

More than half of a portion is water, which is why the calories stay low. What is left is mostly carbohydrate.

0.24 gFat

0.64 gProtein

1.8 gCarbohydrate

1.8 gFibre

74.1 gWater

1.4 gMinerals and the rest

0.24 gFat
0.64 gProtein
1.8 gCarbohydrate
1.8 gFibre
74.1 gWater
1.4 gMinerals and the rest

Below average for vegetables

Red cabbage is 15 kcal per 100 g. The 240 vegetables in this database average 59.9.

Red cabbage15

Vegetables average59.9

Low in sugar, almost no salt

Low sugars and very low salt by UK labelling rules, per 100 g.

Sugars, per portion1.6 g

Salt, per portion0.01 g

Vitamins and minerals in red cabbage

One of the 23 reach the “high in” level: vitamin C.

32 %

Vitamin C

25.6 mg in an 80 g portion

48th of 216 vegetables

Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system, to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue, and to normal collagen formation.

Folate0.0248 mg12 %

Manganese0.16 mg8 %

Potassium104 mg5.2 %

Calcium35.2 mg4.4 %

Phosphorus27.2 mg3.9 %

None recorded

Vitamin D
Vitamin B12

Show all 23 with amounts

Vitamin C25.6 mg, 32 %

Folate0.0248 mg, 12 %

Manganese0.16 mg, 8 %

Potassium104 mg, 5.2 %

Calcium35.2 mg, 4.4 %

Phosphorus27.2 mg, 3.9 %

Chloride28.8 mg, 3.6 %

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.18 mg, 2.9 %

Selenium0.0016 mg, 2.9 %

Vitamin B60.03 mg, 2.3 %

Iron0.24 mg, 1.7 %

Niacin (vitamin B3)0.24 mg, 1.5 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.02 mg, 1.5 %

Vitamin E0.16 mg, 1.3 %

Magnesium4.8 mg, 1.3 %

Iodine0.0016 mg, 1.1 %

Zinc0.08 mg, 0.8 %

Copper0.01 mg, 0.8 %

Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.01 mg, 0.6 %

Vitamin A0.0016 mg, <1 %

Biotin0.00008 mg, <1 %

Vitamin Dnone recorded

Vitamin B12none recorded

Badges use the UK legal thresholds per 100 g: 15 % of the reference intake for “source of”, 30 % for “high in”.

What red cabbage doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

No recorded vitamin D, and only 1 % of the zinc reference intake and 3.6 % of the selenium reference intake per 100 g.

Vitamin D

0mgin red cabbage

Find it inBloater, grilled500 % per 100 g

Zinc

1%in red cabbage, per 100 g

Find it inOysters, raw592 % per 100 g

Selenium

3.6%in red cabbage, per 100 g

Find it inKidney, pig, fried491 % per 100 g

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Red cabbage against other vegetables

Red cabbage comes second for vitamin C here, just behind curly kale (raw).

110mg

32mg

18mg

14mg

13mg

10mg

Curly kale, raw+78 mg

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Cabbage, white, boiled−14 mg

Seaweed, nori, dried, raw−18 mg

Taro, raw−19 mg

Asparagus, grilled−22 mg

All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against red cabbage.

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Questions about red cabbage

What the numbers say to the questions people actually search.

How many calories are in a portion of red cabbage?

A typical portion (80 g, one of your five a day) gives 12 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 15 kcal.

Is red cabbage high in vitamin C?

Yes. Cabbage, red, boiled in unsalted water has 32 mg vitamin C per 100 g, 40 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

Does boiling change the vitamin B6 in red cabbage?

Yes. Per 100 g, vitamin B6 goes from 0.09 mg raw to 0.04 mg boiled. Part of that is the vitamin or mineral itself changing, part is the change in water content.

Which vitamins and minerals does red cabbage have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin C (32 mg, 40 %), folate (0.031 mg, 16 %) and manganese (0.2 mg, 10 %) per 100 g.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 13-540, Cabbage, red, boiled in unsalted water, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: Reviewed 2013. IFR, The nutritional composition of retail vegetables in the UK, 1984-1987. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a portion is 80 g, one of your five a day, the usual UK portion for vegetables. Reference intakes follow Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 Annex XIII as retained in GB law; “source of”, “high in” and “low” follow Regulation (EC) 1924/2006, assessed per 100 g. Function lines are the authorised wording from the GB register of nutrition and health claims, credited to the nutrient. Energy is rounded to the whole kcal and kJ; other amounts to one decimal, or two below 1. A trace is shown as “trace” and never gets a figure or a badge; a nutrient never analysed is left off the page. We start from the dataset’s 2,887 records and keep 2,322: records weighed with bone, shell or skin, alcoholic drinks, infant foods, brand-named products, records with fewer than eight measured vitamins and minerals and near-identical variants are left out. Group context uses the 240 vegetables kept from the dataset; a rank counts only the foods with a measured figure for that nutrient. Food images are illustrations from Ingredient Atlas, released under CC0; they show the food, not the measured sample, and where no illustration of the exact food exists the nearest one is shown (here: Red Cabbage). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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How many calories are in boiled red cabbage?

What’s in an 80 g portion

Below average for vegetables

Low in sugar, almost no salt

Vitamins and minerals in red cabbage

Vitamin C

None recorded

What red cabbage doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

Vitamin D

Zinc

Selenium

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