Crab Nutrition
Crab Nutrition Guide
Improve your health, lifestyle and diet by eating crab.
Crab meat tastes great, has low calories and provides plenty of health benefits. Just try and find a good reason not to eat it often, I dare you!
Here is a list of a few minerals that are found in high levels of crab meat and are needed for our bodies to continue to function properly:
- Magnesium Magnesium keeps bones and teeth strong, helps to prevent osteoporosis, helps women with PMS symptoms, helps the heart to prevent strokes and keeps your blood pressure in the normal range. Along with many other benefits.
- Phorphorus Phorphorus aids in healthy teeth and bones. It helps the muscles recover, gives you energy and aids in digestion and excretion. Along with many other benefits.
- Selenium Selenium is used in our body for our immune system. It is also an antioxidant.
- Zinc Zinc keeps your muscles healthy and aids in muscle growth. It also makes our skin look healthy and it helps our immune system to recover quickly.
Crab Nutrition of the Dungeness crab
This crustacean is high in protein and low in saturated fat with no sugar. It contains vitamin A, vitamin C Iron and Calcium.
Dungeness- (about 3 oz. of meat) = 94 calories
1.1 g fat 65 mg cholesterol 321 mg sodium 19 g protein
It is also:
- High in magnesium
- High in niacin
- High in phosphorus
- High in potassium
- High in vitamin B12
- High in zinc
Blue Crab Nutrition facts
This crustacean is high in protein, low in saturated fat and has no sugar. It contains Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium and Iron.
Blue Crab (about 3 oz. of meat) = 87 calories
1.5 g fat 85 mg cholesterol 237 mg sodium 17.2 g protein
It is also:
- High in niacin
- High in phosphorus
- High in selenium
- High in vitamin B12
- High in zinc
Alaskan King Crab meat nutrition facts
This crustacean is high in protein, low in saturated fat and has no sugar. It contains Vitamin A, Calcium and Iron.
King Crab (about 3 oz. of meat) = 82 calories
2.1 g fat 71 mg cholesterol 1115 mg sodium 25.9 mg protein
It is also:
- High in Magnesium
- High in phosphorus
- High in selenium
- High in vitamin B12
- High in vitamin C
- High in zinc
Imitation Crab Nutrition Facts
Imitation crab is low in saturated fat. But, high in sodium and sugar.
Imitation crab (3 oz. 85 g) = 81 calories
0.4 g fat 17 mg cholesterol 715 mg sodium 6.5 g protein
It is also:
- High in magnesium
- High in phosphorus
- High in selenium
Compare the crab to other sources of “healthy protein sources” and you get:
Skinless, boneless chicken breast (3 oz.) = 142 calories
3.1 g fat 73 mg cholesterol 64 mg sodium 26 g protein
Beef steak, eye of round, (3 oz.) = 150 calories
4 g fat 50 mg cholesterol 65 mg sodium
*with none of the other health benefits!
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