All-Purpose Flour vs Cake Flour: Nutrition Comparison

Where is more calories, protein, carbs - what is more healthy?

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Cake flour vs All-purpose flour: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	All-purpose flour	Cake flour
Calories	366	362
Carbohydrates	77.3 g	78.03 g
Fat	1.48 g	0.86 g
Protein	10.9 g	8.2 g
Water	9.83 g	12.51 g
Calcium	19 mg	14 mg
Iron	5.62 mg	7.32 mg
Magnessium	26.7 mg	16 mg
Potassium	136 mg	105 mg
Sodium	2 mg	2 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.939 mg	0.892 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.443 mg	0.43 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	6.74 mg	6.79 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.066 mg	0.033 mg

More Calories in All-purpose flour

At first glance, you can see that in all-purpose flour is just a little more calories than in cake flour.

All-purpose flour has 366 kcal per 100g and cake flour 362 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 1%.

In all-purpose flour and in cake flour most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare all-purpose flour with cake flour in details.

All-purpose flour And Cake flour Nutrition Difference

Calories:
all-purpose flour - 1% more than cake flour
Carbohydrates:
cake flour - 1% more than all-purpose flour
Fat:
all-purpose flour - 72% more than cake flour
Protein:
all-purpose flour - 33% more than cake flour
Water:
cake flour - 27% more than all-purpose flour

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More protein in all-purpose flour

It is aslo easy to see see that in all-purpose flour is more protein than in cake flour.

There is 8.2g per 100g of cake flour and 10.9g per 100g of all-purpose flour so using simple math we can see that difference is about 33%.

Less carbohydrates in all-purpose flour

In all-purpose flour is less carbohydrates than in cake flour.

There is 78.03g/100g of carbohydrates in cake flour and 77.3g/100g in all-purpose flour so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 1%.

More fat in all-purpose flour

In all-purpose flour is more fats than in cake flour.

The tables above show us that there is 0.86g/100g of fats in cake flour and 1.48g/100g in all-purpose flour. In this case difference is about 72%.