Calories in boiled turnip: 12 kcal per 100 g

Q: How many calories are in a portion of turnip?

A typical portion (80 g, one of your five a day) gives 10 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 12 kcal.

Q: Does boiling change the riboflavin in turnip?

Yes. Per 100 g, riboflavin goes from 0.01 mg raw to 0.02 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 turnip have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin C (10 mg, 13 %), potassium (200 mg, 10 %) and calcium (45 mg, 5.6 %) per 100 g.

Q: Is turnip a good source of protein?

Turnip, boiled in unsalted water has 0.6 g protein per 100 g, 15 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “source of protein”.

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.

0.16 gFat

0.48 gProtein

1.6 gCarbohydrate

1.5 gFibre

74.5 gWater

1.8 gMinerals and the rest

0.16 gFat
0.48 gProtein
1.6 gCarbohydrate
1.5 gFibre
74.5 gWater
1.8 gMinerals and the rest

Below average for vegetables

Turnip is 12 kcal per 100 g. The 240 vegetables in this database average 59.9.

Turnip12

Vegetables average59.9

Low in sugar, almost no salt

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

Sugars, per portion1.5 g

Salt, per portion0.06 g

Vitamins and minerals in turnip

None of the 21 reaches the “source of” level. Vitamin C comes closest at 13 % per 100 g.

10 %

Vitamin C

8 mg in an 80 g portion

129th of 216 vegetables

Vitamin C is below the 15 % “source of” level in turnip, so no function line applies.

Potassium160 mg8 %

Calcium36 mg4.5 %

Manganese0.08 mg4 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.04 mg3.6 %

Phosphorus24.8 mg3.5 %

Only a trace

Vitamin E
Biotin

None recorded

Vitamin D
Vitamin B12

Show all 21 with amounts

Vitamin C8 mg, 10 %

Potassium160 mg, 8 %

Calcium36 mg, 4.5 %

Manganese0.08 mg, 4 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.04 mg, 3.6 %

Phosphorus24.8 mg, 3.5 %

Folate0.0064 mg, 3.2 %

Chloride24.8 mg, 3.1 %

Vitamin B60.03 mg, 2.3 %

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.11 mg, 1.9 %

Niacin (vitamin B3)0.24 mg, 1.5 %

Selenium0.0008 mg, 1.5 %

Magnesium4.8 mg, 1.3 %

Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.02 mg, 1.1 %

Iron0.16 mg, 1.1 %

Zinc0.08 mg, 0.8 %

Copper0.01 mg, 0.8 %

Vitamin A0.0024 mg, <1 %

Vitamin K0.00012 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”. A trace is shown as “trace” and never counts.

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

No recorded vitamin D, and only 1 % of the zinc reference intake and 1.8 % of the selenium reference intake per 100 g.

Vitamin D

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Zinc

1%in turnip, per 100 g

Find it inOysters, raw592 % per 100 g

Selenium

1.8%in turnip, per 100 g

Find it inKidney, pig, fried491 % per 100 g

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Turnip against other vegetables

Per 100 g, drumstick pods (raw) has the most vitamin C in this comparison, followed by swede (boiled) and turnip.

160mg

15mg

10mg

2mg

1mg

Drumstick pods, raw+150 mg

Swede, boiled+5 mg

Turnip, boiled in unsalted waterthis page

Carrots, young, boiled−8 mg

Artichoke, globe, base of leaves and heart, boiled−9 mg

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

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Questions about turnip

Four questions chosen by the facts above, so every food answers differently.

How many calories are in a portion of turnip?

A typical portion (80 g, one of your five a day) gives 10 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 12 kcal.

Does boiling change the riboflavin in turnip?

Yes. Per 100 g, riboflavin goes from 0.01 mg raw to 0.02 mg boiled. Part of that is the vitamin or mineral itself changing, part is the change in water content.

Which vitamins and minerals does turnip have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin C (10 mg, 13 %), potassium (200 mg, 10 %) and calcium (45 mg, 5.6 %) per 100 g.

Is turnip a good source of protein?

Turnip, boiled in unsalted water has 0.6 g protein per 100 g, 15 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “source of protein”.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 13-391, Turnip, 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; Vitamin K1 from Bolton-Smith et al, Br.J. Nutr 83, 2000. 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: Turnip). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.