Cooked homemade egg pasta vs Cooked whole-wheat pasta

In short

For the same 100 calories you eat 77 g of cooked homemade egg pasta or 67 g of cooked whole-wheat pasta. Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.

More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol, folate (3.3×) and riboflavin (2×). More in cooked whole-wheat pasta: manganese (6.3×), copper (3.5×), niacin (2.2×), magnesium (3.4×) and zinc (2.7×). Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.

Calories, and where they come from

Cooked homemade egg pasta100 cal

76.9 g · 4.1 g protein · 18.1 g carbs · 1.3 g fat

Cooked whole-wheat pasta100 cal

67.1 g · 4 g protein · 20.2 g carbs (0.5 g sugars) · 1.1 g fat

Share of the calories fromproteincarbsfat

Where they differ

Each dot 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 gap is a small difference. Color says which food, never which is better.

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  • Manganese6% vs 39%

    0.14 mg vs 0.89 mg

  • Copper5% vs 17%

    0.043 mg vs 0.15 mg

  • Cholesterollimit11% vs 0%

    31.5 mg vs 0 mg

  • Folate12% vs 4%

    46.2 µg vs 14.1 µg

  • Niacin (B3)6% vs 13%

    0.97 mg vs 2.1 mg

  • Magnesium3% vs 9%

    10.8 mg vs 36.2 mg

  • Riboflavin (B2)10% vs 5%

    0.13 mg vs 0.066 mg

  • Zinc3% vs 8%

    0.34 mg vs 0.9 mg

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Where they are alike

Less than 4% of a day apart, in 100 calories of each.

  • Protein4.1 g · 4 g8%·8%
  • Total fat1.3 g · 1.1 g2%·1%
  • Saturated fatlimit0.31 g · 0.16 g2%·1%
  • Carbohydrates18.1 g · 20.2 g7%·7%
  • Sodiumlimit63.8 mg · 2.7 mg3%·<1%
  • Potassium16.2 mg · 64.4 mg<1%·1%
  • Calcium7.7 mg · 8.7 mg1%·1%
  • Iron0.89 mg · 1.2 mg5%·6%
  • Phosphorus40 mg · 85.2 mg3%·7%
  • Vitamin A13.1 µg · 0 µg1%·0%
  • Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
  • Thiamin (B1)0.13 mg · 0.1 mg11%·9%
  • Pantothenic acid (B5)0.18 mg · 0.18 mg4%·4%
  • Vitamin B60.028 mg · 0.062 mg2%·4%
  • Vitamin B120.077 µg · 0 µg3%·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 whole-wheat pasta (SR Legacy 168910). 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.

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