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
Each dot 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 gap is a small difference. Color says which food, never which is better.
- Manganese59% vs 5%
1.3 mg vs 0.1 mg
- Copper47% vs 4%
0.43 mg vs 0.032 mg
- Carbohydrates49% vs 5%
134 g vs 13.4 g
- Pantothenic acid (B5)43% vs 3%
2.2 mg vs 0.13 mg
- Protein44% vs 6%
22.1 g vs 3 g
- Niacin (B3)38% vs 4%
6 mg vs 0.72 mg
- Phosphorus24% vs 2%
294 mg vs 29.6 mg
- Magnesium18% vs 2%
76.1 mg vs 8 mg
- Thiamin (B1)23% vs 8%
0.28 mg vs 0.099 mg
- Zinc13% vs 2%
1.4 mg vs 0.25 mg
- Vitamin B611% vs 1%
0.19 mg vs 0.021 mg
- Cholesterollimit0% vs 8%
0 mg vs 23.4 mg
- Iron10% vs 4%
1.9 mg vs 0.66 mg
- Potassium6% vs <1%
287 mg vs 12 mg
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.