Dry couscous vs Cooked homemade egg pasta
In short
One serving each: 650 calories in dry couscous (1 cup, 173 g), 74 calories in cooked homemade egg pasta (2 oz, 57 g). Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in dry couscous: manganese (13×), copper (13×), carbohydrates (10×), pantothenic acid (16×) and 9 more. More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol. Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
1 cup (173 g) · 22.1 g protein · 134 g carbs · 1.1 g fat
2 oz (57 g) · 3 g protein · 13.4 g carbs · 0.99 g fat
Share of the calories fromproteincarbsfat
Where they differ
Bar length 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 difference in length is a small difference. Color says which food, never which is better.
- Manganese1.3 mg · 0.1 mg59%5%
- Copper0.43 mg · 0.032 mg47%4%
- Carbohydrates134 g · 13.4 g49%5%
- Pantothenic acid (B5)2.2 mg · 0.13 mg43%3%
- Protein22.1 g · 3 g44%6%
- Niacin (B3)6 mg · 0.72 mg38%4%
- Phosphorus294 mg · 29.6 mg24%2%
- Magnesium76.1 mg · 8 mg18%2%
- Thiamin (B1)0.28 mg · 0.099 mg23%8%
- Zinc1.4 mg · 0.25 mg13%2%
- Vitamin B60.19 mg · 0.021 mg11%1%
- Cholesterollimit0 mg · 23.4 mg0%8%
- Iron1.9 mg · 0.66 mg10%4%
- Potassium287 mg · 12 mg6%<1%
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in one serving of each.
- Total fat1.1 g · 0.99 g1%·1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.2 g · 0.23 g1%·1%
- Sodiumlimit17.3 mg · 47.3 mg1%·2%
- Calcium41.5 mg · 5.7 mg3%·<1%
- Vitamin A0 µg · 9.7 µg0%·1%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.13 mg · 0.099 mg10%·8%
- Folate34.6 µg · 34.2 µg9%·9%
- Vitamin B120 µg · 0.057 µg0%·2%
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.