Cooked couscous vs Cooked homemade egg pasta
In short
For the same 100 calories you eat 89 g of cooked couscous or 77 g of cooked homemade egg pasta. Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol, riboflavin (5.6×), folate (3.4×) and thiamin (2.4×). Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
89.3 g · 3.4 g protein · 20.7 g carbs (0.089 g sugars) · 0.14 g fat
76.9 g · 4.1 g protein · 18.1 g carbs · 1.3 g fat
Share of the calories fromproteincarbsfat
Where they differ
Bar length is the share of a day's needs (FDA Daily Value) in 100 calories of each. Every row uses the same scale, so a short difference in length is a small difference. Color says which food, never which is better.
- Cholesterollimit0 mg · 31.5 mg0%11%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.024 mg · 0.13 mg2%10%
- Folate13.4 µg · 46.2 µg3%12%
- Thiamin (B1)0.056 mg · 0.13 mg5%11%
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in 100 calories of each.
- Protein3.4 g · 4.1 g7%·8%
- Total fat0.14 g · 1.3 g<1%·2%
- Saturated fatlimit0.026 g · 0.31 g<1%·2%
- Carbohydrates20.7 g · 18.1 g8%·7%
- Sodiumlimit4.5 mg · 63.8 mg<1%·3%
- Potassium51.8 mg · 16.2 mg1%·<1%
- Calcium7.1 mg · 7.7 mg1%·1%
- Iron0.34 mg · 0.89 mg2%·5%
- Magnesium7.1 mg · 10.8 mg2%·3%
- Phosphorus19.6 mg · 40 mg2%·3%
- Zinc0.23 mg · 0.34 mg2%·3%
- Copper0.037 mg · 0.043 mg4%·5%
- Manganese0.075 mg · 0.14 mg3%·6%
- Vitamin A0 µg · 13.1 µg0%·1%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Niacin (B3)0.88 mg · 0.97 mg5%·6%
- Pantothenic acid (B5)0.33 mg · 0.18 mg7%·4%
- Vitamin B60.046 mg · 0.028 mg3%·2%
- Vitamin B120 µg · 0.077 µg0%·3%
Reported for only one of the two, so not compared: fiber, selenium, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, choline.
From USDA FoodData Central: Cooked couscous (SR Legacy 169700), Cooked homemade egg pasta (SR Legacy 168901). Daily Values are the FDA's for adults and children 4 years and older. Missing values are never shown as zero. For exploring the data, not dietary advice.