Plain couscous, cooked vs Cooked homemade egg pasta
In short
One serving each: 178 calories in plain couscous, cooked (1 cup, cooked, 160 g), 74 calories in cooked homemade egg pasta (2 oz, 57 g). Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in plain couscous, cooked: sodium (6.4×), carbohydrates (2.8×), protein (2×) and niacin (2.2×). More in cooked homemade egg pasta: cholesterol and riboflavin (2.3×). Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
1 cup, cooked (160 g) · 6 g protein · 37 g carbs (0.16 g sugars) · 0.26 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.
- Sodiumlimit13% vs 2%
302 mg vs 47.3 mg
- Carbohydrates13% vs 5%
37 g vs 13.4 g
- Cholesterollimit0% vs 8%
0 mg vs 23.4 mg
- Protein12% vs 6%
6 g vs 3 g
- Niacin (B3)10% vs 4%
1.6 mg vs 0.72 mg
- Riboflavin (B2)3% vs 8%
0.043 mg vs 0.099 mg
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in one serving of each.
- Total fat0.26 g · 0.99 g<1%·1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.046 g · 0.23 g<1%·1%
- Potassium92.8 mg · 12 mg2%·<1%
- Calcium12.8 mg · 5.7 mg1%·<1%
- Iron0.61 mg · 0.66 mg3%·4%
- Magnesium12.8 mg · 8 mg3%·2%
- Phosphorus35.2 mg · 29.6 mg3%·2%
- Zinc0.42 mg · 0.25 mg4%·2%
- Copper0.066 mg · 0.032 mg7%·4%
- Vitamin A0 µg · 9.7 µg0%·1%
- Vitamin C0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Thiamin (B1)0.1 mg · 0.099 mg8%·8%
- Vitamin B60.082 mg · 0.021 mg5%·1%
- Folate24 µg · 34.2 µg6%·9%
- Vitamin B120 µg · 0.057 µg0%·2%
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: Plain couscous, cooked (Survey (FNDDS) 2708441), 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.