Cooked homemade egg pasta vs Dry couscous
In short
Gram for gram, there are 2.9 times as many calories in dry couscous as in cooked homemade egg pasta (376 vs 130 in 100 g). Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol, folate (3×), riboflavin (2.2×) and vitamin B12. More in dry couscous: manganese (4.3×), copper (4.4×), pantothenic acid (5.4×), carbohydrates (3.3×) and 5 more. Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
5.3 g protein · 23.5 g carbs · 1.7 g fat
12.8 g protein · 77.4 g carbs · 0.64 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 g 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.
- Manganese0.18 mg · 0.78 mg8%34%
- Copper0.056 mg · 0.25 mg6%27%
- Pantothenic acid (B5)0.23 mg · 1.2 mg5%25%
- Carbohydrates23.5 g · 77.4 g9%28%
- Protein5.3 g · 12.8 g11%26%
- Niacin (B3)1.3 mg · 3.5 mg8%22%
- Cholesterollimit41 mg · 0 mg14%0%
- Folate60 µg · 20 µg15%5%
- Phosphorus52 mg · 170 mg4%14%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.17 mg · 0.078 mg13%6%
- Magnesium14 mg · 44 mg3%10%
- Vitamin B60.037 mg · 0.11 mg2%6%
- Vitamin B120.1 µg · 0 µg4%0%
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in 100 g of each.
- Total fat1.7 g · 0.64 g2%·1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.41 g · 0.12 g2%·1%
- Sodiumlimit83 mg · 10 mg4%·<1%
- Potassium21 mg · 166 mg<1%·4%
- Calcium10 mg · 24 mg1%·2%
- Iron1.2 mg · 1.1 mg6%·6%
- Zinc0.44 mg · 0.83 mg4%·8%
- Vitamin A17 µg · 0 µg2%·0%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Thiamin (B1)0.17 mg · 0.16 mg14%·14%
Reported for only one of the two, so not compared: fiber, vitamin D.
From USDA FoodData Central: Cooked homemade egg pasta (SR Legacy 168901), Dry couscous (SR Legacy 169699). 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.