Pasta: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

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Prep time: 1 min
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Pasta: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in cooked pasta?

In this article:

★ Calories
★ Nutrition
★ Calories per unit
★ Calories per ounce (oz)
★ Carbs
★ Fat
★ Protein

100g of cooked pasta has about 131 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | cup | half cup

Case in point, cup (100 ml) of cooked pasta (70 g) has about 92 calories.

It is about 4% of daily calories intake for adult person with medium weight and medium activity (for calculation we assumed 2400 kcal daily intake).

To visualize how much it actualy is, take in mind that calories amount from cup (100 ml) cooked pasta is similar to calories amount from ie.:

1.5 apples
1 glass of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
0.5 slice of cheese
0.5 slice of bread
0.5 glass of milk
4.5 cubes of sugar

For burning such amount of calories you have to bike at least 13 minutes, swim for about 11 minutes or run for 9 minutes.

Calories In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

See all nutrition data of cooked pasta on charts.

Pasta: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories131kcal/100g(37 kcal/oz)

Carbs24.9g/100g(7.1 g/oz)

Protein5.2g/100g(1.5 g/oz)

Fat1.1g/100g(0.3 g/oz)

Check compares of cooked pasta with other products from grain products category:

How many calories in cup or half cup of cooked pasta?

As I wrote before 100g has 131 calories. It is also easy to count how many calories will be in ie. cup or half cup of cooked pasta.

Cup of cooked pasta (120g)157 kcal
Half cup of cooked pasta (60g)79 kcal
Ounce (oz) of cooked pasta37 kcal
10g of cooked pasta13 kcal
20g of cooked pasta26 kcal
50g of cooked pasta66 kcal
100g of cooked pasta131 kcal

Protein in cooked pasta

Cooked pasta has 5.15 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of cup (100 ml) of cooked pasta (70 g) you can see that you will get about 3.6 g of protein.

Carbs in cooked pasta

Cooked pasta has 24.93 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that cup (100 ml) of cooked pasta (70 g) has about 17.5 g of carbs.

Fat in cooked pasta

Cooked pasta has 1.05 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that cup (100 ml) of cooked pasta (70 g) has about 0.7 g of fat.

cup (100 ml) of cooked pasta (70 g) has:

92kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike13 min.Bike

Horse ride17 min.Horse ride

Play tennis9 min.Tennis

Run9 min.Run

Swim11 min.Swim

cooked pasta - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A20 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.209 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.15 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)0.992 mg
Vitaminium B60.034 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.104 mcg

Energy content of cooked pasta

77% CARBS
16% PROTEIN
7% FAT

cooked pasta - minerals per 100g

Potassium24 mg
Phosphorus6 mg
Magnessium18 mg
Calcium6 mg
Sodium6 mg
Iron1.14 mg
Zink6 mg

Does cooked pasta cause weight gain? How it affects your diet?

Number of calories in cooked pasta is one of the highest from all products in grain products category. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific grain products, cooked pasta seems to be a bad choice. It is easy to find something better among other grain products.

It is really much as for grain products. Similar energy amount have only such products as wholemeal pasta, muesli or oatmeal.

You should consider that not only calories are important when you are on a diet. If cooked pasta contains nutrition you need than maybe you should add it to your daily menu anyway?

Interesting charts - compare cooked pasta with other grain products

When you look at charts below you will see how cooked pasta looks like in comparsion to other products from its category. When you click on selected product you will se detailed comparsion.

Fat In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Iron In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Magnesium In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Potassium In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Protein In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Sodium In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B1 In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B2 In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B6 In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Water In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Carbohydrates In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Calories In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Calcium In Cooked Pasta Based On Grain Products Category

Author of this page
Marcin Piotrowicz

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Promoter of a healthy eating and living style

All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.