Cooked couscous vs Cooked homemade egg pasta
In short
One serving each: 176 calories in cooked couscous (1 cup, cooked, 157 g), 74 calories in cooked homemade egg pasta (2 oz, 57 g). Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in cooked couscous: pantothenic acid (4.4×), carbohydrates (2.7×), protein and niacin (2.2×). More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol and riboflavin (2.3×). Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
1 cup, cooked (157 g) · 6 g protein · 36.5 g carbs (0.16 g sugars) · 0.25 g fat
2 oz (57 g) · 3 g protein · 13.4 g carbs · 0.99 g fat
Share of the calories fromproteincarbsfat
Where they differ
Bar length is the share of a day's needs (FDA Daily Value) in one serving 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.
- Pantothenic acid (B5)0.58 mg · 0.13 mg12%3%
- Carbohydrates36.5 g · 13.4 g13%5%
- Cholesterollimit0 mg · 23.4 mg0%8%
- Protein6 g · 3 g12%6%
- Niacin (B3)1.5 mg · 0.72 mg10%4%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.042 mg · 0.099 mg3%8%
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in one serving of each.
- Total fat0.25 g · 0.99 g<1%·1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.046 g · 0.23 g<1%·1%
- Sodiumlimit7.8 mg · 47.3 mg<1%·2%
- Potassium91.1 mg · 12 mg2%·<1%
- Calcium12.6 mg · 5.7 mg1%·<1%
- Iron0.6 mg · 0.66 mg3%·4%
- Magnesium12.6 mg · 8 mg3%·2%
- Phosphorus34.5 mg · 29.6 mg3%·2%
- Zinc0.41 mg · 0.25 mg4%·2%
- Copper0.064 mg · 0.032 mg7%·4%
- Manganese0.13 mg · 0.1 mg6%·5%
- Vitamin A0 µg · 9.7 µg0%·1%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Thiamin (B1)0.099 mg · 0.099 mg8%·8%
- Vitamin B60.08 mg · 0.021 mg5%·1%
- Folate23.6 µg · 34.2 µg6%·9%
- Vitamin B120 µg · 0.057 µg0%·2%
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.