Nutrient list · USDA values per 100 g

Low Calorie Vegetables

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Dill Pickles comes first with 12 kcal per 100 g. 77 foods in the CalorTracker database qualify, ranked lowest first.

Vegetables ranked by calories per 100 g, lowest first. 77 vegetables are in the database, and the table opens with Dill Pickles at 12 kcal per 100 g and ends at Hash Browns with 265 kcal per 100 g.

Starchy vegetables such as potatoes and sweet potatoes sit near the bottom because starch adds calories, while raw leaves, stalks and fruiting vegetables sit at the top, where water makes up most of the weight. Prepared dishes are ranked as USDA describes them, so a fried or mashed row is not the same as a plain one.

Low Calorie Vegetables: 77 of 77 qualifying foods, ranked by calories per 100 g
Food	Calories per 100 g
1.Dill Pickles	12 kcal
2.Bok Choy	13 kcal
3.Celery	14 kcal
4.Iceberg Lettuce	14 kcal
5.Cucumber	15 kcal
6.Lettuce	15 kcal
7.Canned Tomatoes	16 kcal
8.Napa Cabbage	16 kcal
9.Radish	16 kcal
10.Romaine Lettuce	17 kcal
11.Zucchini	17 kcal
12.Tomato	18 kcal
13.Sauerkraut	19 kcal
14.Swiss Chard	19 kcal
15.Yellow Squash	19 kcal
16.Asparagus	20 kcal
17.Asparagus (Cooked)	22 kcal
18.Mushrooms (Raw)	22 kcal
19.Portobello Mushrooms	22 kcal
20.Cauliflower (Cooked)	23 kcal
21.Spinach	23 kcal
22.Spinach (Cooked)	23 kcal
23.Arugula	25 kcal
24.Cabbage	25 kcal
25.Cauliflower	25 kcal
26.Eggplant	25 kcal
27.Bell Pepper	26 kcal
28.Pumpkin	26 kcal
29.Mushrooms (Cooked)	28 kcal
30.Turnips	28 kcal
31.Jalapeno Pepper	29 kcal
32.Fennel	31 kcal
33.Green Beans	31 kcal
34.Red Cabbage	31 kcal
35.Spaghetti Squash	31 kcal
36.Green Onions	32 kcal
37.Collard Greens	33 kcal
38.Okra	33 kcal
39.Broccoli	34 kcal
40.Canned Pumpkin	34 kcal
41.Broccoli (Cooked)	35 kcal
42.Carrots (Cooked)	35 kcal
43.Green Beans (Cooked)	35 kcal
44.Kale	35 kcal
45.Brussels Sprouts (Cooked)	36 kcal
46.Kale (Cooked)	36 kcal
47.Jicama	38 kcal
48.Butternut Squash (Baked)	40 kcal
49.Onion	40 kcal
50.Carrot	41 kcal
51.Snow Peas	42 kcal
52.Beets (Raw)	43 kcal
53.Brussels Sprouts	43 kcal
54.Butternut Squash (Raw)	45 kcal
55.Artichoke	53 kcal
56.Acorn Squash	56 kcal
57.Shiitake Mushrooms	56 kcal
58.Leeks	61 kcal
59.Canned Corn	67 kcal
60.Parsnips	75 kcal
61.Frozen Peas	77 kcal
62.Potato	77 kcal
63.Ginger Root	80 kcal
64.Green Peas (Raw)	81 kcal
65.Green Peas (Cooked)	84 kcal
66.Boiled Potato	86 kcal
67.Sweet Corn (Raw)	86 kcal
68.Sweet Potato	86 kcal
69.Baked Sweet Potato	90 kcal
70.Baked Potato	93 kcal
71.Sweet Corn (Cooked)	96 kcal
72.Mashed Potatoes	113 kcal
73.Black Olives (Canned)	116 kcal
74.Garlic	149 kcal
75.French Fries	198 kcal
76.Sun-Dried Tomatoes	258 kcal
77.Hash Browns	265 kcal

How this list is calculated

Foods are ranked by calories per 100 g, lowest first. Every value is computed from the USDA FoodData Central record behind each food's page, which CalorTracker stores per 100 g. Nothing is estimated or rounded before ranking, and foods with equal values are ordered by name.

This list draws on the vegetables in the CalorTracker food database (77 foods). Every food with a measured value qualifies. A food USDA has no measurement for is left out, never counted as zero.

77 foods qualify, and the table shows all of them.

Every number comes from USDA FoodData Central, the US government's food composition database, through the food pages linked in the table. The same method is written out on how we calculate, and our sources are listed on sources.

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Source: USDA FoodData Central, retrieved October 22, 2026. How we calculate.