Dry couscous vs Cooked homemade egg pasta
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 dry couscous: manganese (4.3×), copper (4.4×), pantothenic acid (5.4×), carbohydrates (3.3×) and 5 more. More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol, folate (3×), riboflavin (2.2×) and vitamin B12. Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
12.8 g protein · 77.4 g carbs · 0.64 g fat
5.3 g protein · 23.5 g carbs · 1.7 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.
- Manganese0.78 mg · 0.18 mg34%8%
- Copper0.25 mg · 0.056 mg27%6%
- Pantothenic acid (B5)1.2 mg · 0.23 mg25%5%
- Carbohydrates77.4 g · 23.5 g28%9%
- Protein12.8 g · 5.3 g26%11%
- Niacin (B3)3.5 mg · 1.3 mg22%8%
- Cholesterollimit0 mg · 41 mg0%14%
- Folate20 µg · 60 µg5%15%
- Phosphorus170 mg · 52 mg14%4%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.078 mg · 0.17 mg6%13%
- Magnesium44 mg · 14 mg10%3%
- Vitamin B60.11 mg · 0.037 mg6%2%
- Vitamin B120 µg · 0.1 µg0%4%
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in 100 g of each.
- Total fat0.64 g · 1.7 g1%·2%
- Saturated fatlimit0.12 g · 0.41 g1%·2%
- Sodiumlimit10 mg · 83 mg<1%·4%
- Potassium166 mg · 21 mg4%·<1%
- Calcium24 mg · 10 mg2%·1%
- Iron1.1 mg · 1.2 mg6%·6%
- Zinc0.83 mg · 0.44 mg8%·4%
- Vitamin A0 µg · 17 µg0%·2%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Thiamin (B1)0.16 mg · 0.17 mg14%·14%
Reported for only one of the two, so not compared: fiber, vitamin D.
From USDA FoodData Central: Dry couscous (SR Legacy 169699), 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.