Cooked homemade egg pasta vs Cooked couscous
In short
One serving each: 74 calories in cooked homemade egg pasta (2 oz, 57 g), 176 calories in cooked couscous (1 cup, cooked, 157 g). Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol and riboflavin (2.3×). More in cooked couscous: pantothenic acid (4.4×), carbohydrates (2.7×), protein and niacin (2.2×). Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
2 oz (57 g) · 3 g protein · 13.4 g carbs · 0.99 g fat
1 cup, cooked (157 g) · 6 g protein · 36.5 g carbs (0.16 g sugars) · 0.25 g fat
Share of the calories fromproteincarbsfat
Where they differ
Each dot 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 gap is a small difference. Color says which food, never which is better.
- Pantothenic acid (B5)3% vs 12%
0.13 mg vs 0.58 mg
- Carbohydrates5% vs 13%
13.4 g vs 36.5 g
- Cholesterollimit8% vs 0%
23.4 mg vs 0 mg
- Protein6% vs 12%
3 g vs 6 g
- Niacin (B3)4% vs 10%
0.72 mg vs 1.5 mg
- Riboflavin (B2)8% vs 3%
0.099 mg vs 0.042 mg
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in one serving of each.
- Total fat0.99 g · 0.25 g1%·<1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.23 g · 0.046 g1%·<1%
- Sodiumlimit47.3 mg · 7.8 mg2%·<1%
- Potassium12 mg · 91.1 mg<1%·2%
- Calcium5.7 mg · 12.6 mg<1%·1%
- Iron0.66 mg · 0.6 mg4%·3%
- Magnesium8 mg · 12.6 mg2%·3%
- Phosphorus29.6 mg · 34.5 mg2%·3%
- Zinc0.25 mg · 0.41 mg2%·4%
- Copper0.032 mg · 0.064 mg4%·7%
- Manganese0.1 mg · 0.13 mg5%·6%
- Vitamin A9.7 µg · 0 µg1%·0%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Thiamin (B1)0.099 mg · 0.099 mg8%·8%
- Vitamin B60.021 mg · 0.08 mg1%·5%
- Folate34.2 µg · 23.6 µg9%·6%
- Vitamin B120.057 µg · 0 µg2%·0%
Reported for only one of the two, so not compared: fiber, selenium, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, choline.
From USDA FoodData Central: Cooked homemade egg pasta (SR Legacy 168901), Cooked couscous (SR Legacy 169700). 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.