Wheat bread vs Pasta, cooked
In short
For the same 100 calories you eat 36 g of wheat bread or 64 g of pasta, cooked. Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in wheat bread: niacin. More in pasta, cooked: selenium and folate (2.1×). Everything else is within 4% of a day's needs.
Calories, and where they come from
36.5 g · 3.9 g protein · 17.4 g carbs (2.1 g sugars) · 1.7 g fat
63.7 g · 3.7 g protein · 19.5 g carbs (0.36 g sugars) · 0.59 g fat
Share of the calories fromproteincarbsfat
Where they differ
Each dot 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 gap is a small difference. Color says which food, never which is better.
- Selenium19% vs 30%
10.5 µg vs 16.7 µg
- Folate9% vs 19%
36.1 µg vs 75.2 µg
- Niacin (B3)13% vs 7%
2 mg vs 1.1 mg
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in 100 calories of each.
- Protein3.9 g · 3.7 g8%·7%
- Total fat1.7 g · 0.59 g2%·1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.25 g · 0.11 g1%·1%
- Cholesterollimit0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Carbohydrates17.4 g · 19.5 g6%·7%
- Fiber1.5 g · 1.1 g5%·4%
- Sodiumlimit173 mg · 148 mg8%·6%
- Potassium51.5 mg · 28 mg1%·1%
- Calcium45.6 mg · 4.5 mg4%·<1%
- Iron1.3 mg · 0.81 mg7%·4%
- Magnesium15 mg · 11.5 mg4%·3%
- Phosphorus47.1 mg · 36.9 mg4%·3%
- Zinc0.38 mg · 0.32 mg3%·3%
- Copper0.054 mg · 0.063 mg6%·7%
- Vitamin A0 µg · 0 µg0%·0%
- Vitamin C0.073 mg · 0 mg<1%·0%
- Vitamin D0 µg · 0 µg0%·0%
- Vitamin E0.069 mg · 0.038 mg<1%·<1%
- Vitamin K1.8 µg · 0 µg1%·0%
- Thiamin (B1)0.15 mg · 0.17 mg13%·14%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.092 mg · 0.086 mg7%·7%
- Vitamin B60.041 mg · 0.031 mg2%·2%
- Vitamin B120 µg · 0 µg0%·0%
- Choline6.8 mg · 4.1 mg1%·1%
Reported for only one of the two, so not compared: manganese, pantothenic acid (B5).
From USDA FoodData Central: Wheat bread (SR Legacy 172686), Pasta, cooked (Survey (FNDDS) 2708357). 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.