Cooked homemade egg pasta vs Plain couscous, cooked
In short
For the same 100 calories you eat 77 g of cooked homemade egg pasta or 90 g of plain couscous, cooked. Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol, riboflavin (5.5×), folate (3.4×) and thiamin (2.3×). More in plain couscous, cooked: sodium (2.7×). Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
76.9 g · 4.1 g protein · 18.1 g carbs · 1.3 g fat
90.1 g · 3.4 g protein · 20.8 g carbs (0.09 g sugars) · 0.14 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.
- Cholesterollimit31.5 mg · 0 mg11%0%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.13 mg · 0.024 mg10%2%
- Folate46.2 µg · 13.5 µg12%3%
- Thiamin (B1)0.13 mg · 0.057 mg11%5%
- Sodiumlimit63.8 mg · 170 mg3%7%
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in 100 calories of each.
- Protein4.1 g · 3.4 g8%·7%
- Total fat1.3 g · 0.14 g2%·<1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.31 g · 0.026 g2%·<1%
- Carbohydrates18.1 g · 20.8 g7%·8%
- Potassium16.2 mg · 52.3 mg<1%·1%
- Calcium7.7 mg · 7.2 mg1%·1%
- Iron0.89 mg · 0.34 mg5%·2%
- Magnesium10.8 mg · 7.2 mg3%·2%
- Phosphorus40 mg · 19.8 mg3%·2%
- Zinc0.34 mg · 0.23 mg3%·2%
- Copper0.043 mg · 0.037 mg5%·4%
- Vitamin A13.1 µg · 0 µg1%·0%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Niacin (B3)0.97 mg · 0.88 mg6%·6%
- Vitamin B60.028 mg · 0.046 mg2%·3%
- Vitamin B120.077 µg · 0 µg3%·0%
Reported for only one of the two, so not compared: fiber, manganese, selenium, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, pantothenic acid (B5), choline.
From USDA FoodData Central: Cooked homemade egg pasta (SR Legacy 168901), Plain couscous, cooked (Survey (FNDDS) 2708441). 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.