Macaroni, cooked leads 5–4 · 9 categories decided · 1 tie
Both foods compared at 100 kcal.
The verdict
Macaroni, cooked comes out ahead, winning 5 of 9 nutrient match-ups.
Pick All-purpose flour for less sugar, less sodium, more potassium and more iron.
Pick Macaroni, cooked for more protein, more fiber, less saturated fat, more calcium and more magnesium.
Evenly matched on vitamin C.
Head-to-head
- Energy100 kcal100 kcal
- Proteinmore is better2.84 g3.54 gWIN
- Carbohydrate20.96 g20.79 g
- Fibermore is better0.74 g3.36 gWIN
- Total sugarsless is betterWIN0.07 g0.9 g
- Total fat0.27 g0.09 g
- Saturated fatless is better0.04 g0.01 gWIN
- Sodiumless is betterWIN0.55 mg4.69 mg
- Potassiummore is betterWIN29.4 mg24.22 mg
- Calciummore is better4.12 mg8.59 mgWIN
- Ironmore is betterWIN1.27 mg0.38 mg
- Magnesiummore is better6.04 mg14.84 mgWIN
- Vitamin Cmore is better0 mg0 mg
- Vitamin Dmore is better——
Winners are decided by deterministic per-metric rules on the stated basis; ties and missing data don’t score (missing ≠ zero). Educational information only — not medical advice.

