Wheat bread vs Vegetable pasta, cooked
In short
For the same 100 calories you eat 36 g of wheat bread or 78 g of vegetable pasta, cooked. Both get most of their calories from carbohydrate.
More in wheat bread: niacin (2.4×), thiamin, iron (3.4×) and sodium (2.2×). More in vegetable pasta, cooked: folate (2.3×), selenium and fiber (2.3×). 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
78.1 g · 3.5 g protein · 20.7 g carbs (0.9 g sugars) · 0.086 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 calories 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.
- Folate36.1 µg · 82.8 µg9%21%
- Selenium10.5 µg · 15.5 µg19%28%
- Niacin (B3)2 mg · 0.83 mg13%5%
- Fiber1.5 g · 3.4 g5%12%
- Thiamin (B1)0.15 mg · 0.087 mg13%7%
- Iron1.3 mg · 0.38 mg7%2%
- Sodiumlimit173 mg · 77.3 mg8%3%
Where they are alike
Less than 4% of a day apart, in 100 calories of each.
- Protein3.9 g · 3.5 g8%·7%
- Total fat1.7 g · 0.086 g2%·<1%
- Saturated fatlimit0.25 g · 0.013 g1%·<1%
- Cholesterollimit0 mg · 0 mg0%·0%
- Carbohydrates17.4 g · 20.7 g6%·8%
- Potassium51.5 mg · 24.2 mg1%·1%
- Calcium45.6 mg · 8.6 mg4%·1%
- Magnesium15 mg · 14.8 mg4%·4%
- Phosphorus47.1 mg · 39.1 mg4%·3%
- Zinc0.38 mg · 0.34 mg3%·3%
- Copper0.054 mg · 0.072 mg6%·8%
- Vitamin A0 µg · 3.9 µg0%·<1%
- Vitamin C0.073 mg · 0 mg<1%·0%
- Vitamin D0 µg · 0 µg0%·0%
- Vitamin E0.069 mg · 0.16 mg<1%·1%
- Vitamin K1.8 µg · 0.23 µg1%·<1%
- Riboflavin (B2)0.092 mg · 0.048 mg7%·4%
- Vitamin B60.041 mg · 0.019 mg2%·1%
- Vitamin B120 µg · 0 µg0%·0%
- Choline6.8 mg · 3.9 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), Vegetable pasta, cooked (Survey (FNDDS) 2708351). 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.