Calories in butter beans: 290 kcal per 100 g

What’s in an 80 g portion

More than half of a portion is carbohydrate, 2.9 g of it sugars and 37 g starch.

1.4 gFat

15.3 gProtein

42.3 gCarbohydrate

12.8 gFibre

9.3 gWater

1.4 gFat
15.3 gProtein
42.3 gCarbohydrate
12.8 gFibre
9.3 gWater

Above average for beans and lentils

Butter beans are 290 kcal per 100 g. The 65 beans and lentils in this database average 154.

Butter beans290

Beans and lentils average154

Low in sugar, almost no salt

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

Sugars, per portion2.9 g

Salt, per portion0.08 g

Vitamins and minerals in butter beans

Nine of the 17 reach the “high in” level, led by potassium.

68 %

Potassium

1360 mg in an 80 g portion

3rd of 65 beans and lentils

Potassium contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system and to normal muscle function.

Manganese1.4 mg68 %

Copper0.59 mg59 %

Magnesium152 mg41 %

Phosphorus256 mg37 %

Iron4.7 mg34 %

Also high in

A source of

Only a trace

Vitamin A
Vitamin C

None recorded

Vitamin D
Vitamin B12

Show all 17 with amounts

Potassium1360 mg, 68 %

Manganese1.4 mg, 68 %

Copper0.59 mg, 59 %

Magnesium152 mg, 41 %

Phosphorus256 mg, 37 %

Iron4.7 mg, 34 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.36 mg, 33 %

Vitamin B60.41 mg, 29 %

Niacin (vitamin B3)4.5 mg, 28 %

Zinc2.2 mg, 22 %

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)1 mg, 17 %

Calcium68 mg, 8.5 %

Vitamin E0.9 mg, 7.5 %

Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.1 mg, 7.4 %

Chloride37.6 mg, 4.7 %

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 butter beans don’t give you. And where to find it.

No recorded vitamin D, vitamin C or vitamin A.

Vitamin D

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Vitamin C

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Vitamin A

Tracein butter beans

Find it inLiver, calf, fried3152 % per 100 g

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Butter beans against other beans and lentils

Per 100 g, butter beans have the most potassium of the 6 here, ahead of beans (pigeon peas, dahl, dried, raw).

1700mg

1390mg

1220mg

1170mg

800mg

510mg

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Beans, pigeon peas, dahl, dried, raw−310 mg

Beans, aduki, whole, dried, raw−480 mg

Beans, blackeye, whole, dried, raw−530 mg

Black gram, urad gram, whole, dried, raw−900 mg

Beans, soya, dried, boiled−1190 mg

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

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Questions about butter beans

The questions people ask about butter beans, answered from the dataset.

How many calories are in a portion of butter beans?

A typical portion (80 g, a portion of cooked beans) gives 232 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 290 kcal.

Is butter beans high in potassium?

Yes. Beans, butter, dried, raw have 1700 mg potassium per 100 g, 85 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

Which vitamins and minerals do butter beans have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: potassium (1700 mg, 85 %), manganese (1.7 mg, 85 %) and copper (0.74 mg, 74 %) per 100 g.

Are butter beans a good source of protein?

Beans, butter, dried, raw have 19.1 g protein per 100 g, 24 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “high protein”.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 13-070, Beans, butter, dried, raw, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: As Vegetables, Herbs and Spices Supplement, 1991 13-062. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a portion is 80 g, a portion of cooked beans, the usual UK portion for beans and lentils. 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 65 beans and lentils 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: Butter Bean). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.