All-Purpose Flour vs Pastry Flour: What Should You Choose?

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

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Pastry flour vs All-purpose flour: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	All-purpose flour	Pastry flour
Calories	366	358
Carbohydrates	77.3 g	77.2 g
Fat	1.48 g	1.64 g
Protein	10.9 g	8.75 g
Water	9.83 g	11.9 g
Calcium	19 mg	17 mg
Iron	5.62 mg	0.87 mg
Magnessium	26.7 mg	22.4 mg
Potassium	136 mg	142 mg
Sodium	2 mg	1 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.939 mg	0.146 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	6.74 mg	0.988 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.066 mg	0.065 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 pastry flour.

All-purpose flour has 366 kcal per 100g and pastry flour 358 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 2%.

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

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

All-purpose flour And Pastry flour Nutrition Difference

Calories:
all-purpose flour - 2% more than pastry flour
Carbohydrates:
all-purpose flour - 0% more than pastry flour
Fat:
pastry flour - 11% more than all-purpose flour
Protein:
all-purpose flour - 25% more than pastry flour
Water:
pastry flour - 21% 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 pastry flour.

There is 8.75g per 100g of pastry flour and 10.9g per 100g of all-purpose flour so using simple math we can see that difference is about 25%.

More carbohydrates in all-purpose flour

In all-purpose flour is more carbohydrates than in pastry flour.

There is 77.2g/100g of carbohydrates in pastry flour and 77.3g/100g in all-purpose flour so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 0%.

Less fat in all-purpose flour

In all-purpose flour is less fats than in pastry flour.

The tables above show us that there is 1.64g/100g of fats in pastry flour and 1.48g/100g in all-purpose flour. In this case difference is about 11%.