Couscous Nutrition Facts Label: Calories & Protein
The FDA Nutrition Facts label for couscous, drawn for 1 cup, cooked: 176 calories, 6 g protein, 0.3 g fat, 36.4 g carbs, with %DV. Plus Canada, EU and UK versions and a PNG download.
Couscous Nutrition Facts label (FDA standard format)
This is the Nutrition Facts label for couscous as the FDA specifies it: one serving of 1 cup, cooked (157 g), every value rounded exactly as 21 CFR 101.9 requires, the same rounding a compliance reviewer checks. Nutrient data is USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy, FDC ID 169700: Couscous, cooked).
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Couscous nutrition label for Canada, the EU and the UK
The same 1 cup, cooked of couscous, drawn by the site's Canadian, EU and UK renderers. Canada keeps a per-serving panel in English and French with its own Daily Values and folds trans fat into the saturated-fat row. The EU declaration is per 100 g only, states energy in kJ and kcal, and declares salt (sodium × 2.5) rather than sodium. The UK table is the EU layout as retained by the Food Information Regulations 2014, with the optional per-serving column and %RI. One recipe in the generator renders all of them from the same numbers.
| Fat / Lipides | 0 g | 0 % |
| Saturated / Saturés | 0 g + Trans 0 g | 0 % |
| Cholesterol / Cholestérol | 0 mg | 0 % |
| Sodium | 10 mg | 0 % |
| Carbohydrate / Glucides | 36 g | 13 % |
| Fibre / Fibres | 2 g | 8 % |
| Sugars / Sucres | 0 g | 0 % |
| Protein / Protéines | 6 g | |
| Vitamin D / Vitamine D | 0 mcg | 0 % |
| Calcium | 13 mg | 1 % |
| Iron / Fer | 1 mg | 3 % |
| Potassium | 91 mg | 3 % |
*5 % ou moins c'est peu, 15 % ou plus c'est beaucoup
| Per 100g | |
|---|---|
| Energy | 469 kJ / 112 kcal |
| Fat | 0.2 g |
| of which saturates | 0.0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 23 g |
| of which sugars | 0.1 g |
| Protein | 3.8 g |
| Salt | 0.0 g |
| Per 100g | Per 157g | %RI* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | 469 kJ 112 kcal |
736 kJ 176 kcal |
8.8% |
| Fat | 0 gg | 0 gg | <1% |
| of which saturates | 0 gg | 0 gg | <1% |
| Carbohydrate | 23g | 36g | 14% |
| of which sugars | 0 gg | 0 gg | <1% |
| Fibre | 1.4g | 2.2g | - |
| Protein | 3.8g | 6.0g | 12% |
| Salt | 0.01g | 0.02g | <1% |
What stands out in couscous
Measured against the FDA's nutrient-content claim thresholds (21 CFR 101.54), couscous is notable for:
- Protein - 6g per 1 cup, cooked - 12% DV, enough to qualify as a good source (10–19% DV).
These are the thresholds that decide whether a package may carry a claim like “good source of fiber”. The label generator applies the same rules to your own recipe.
Couscous nutrition facts per serving and per 100 g
| Nutrient | Per 1 cup, cooked | % DV* | Per 100 g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 180 | – | 112 |
| Total Fat | 0g | 0% | 0.2g |
| Saturated Fat | 0g | 0% | 0g |
| Trans Fat | 0g | – | – |
| Cholesterol | 0mg | 0% | 0mg |
| Sodium | 10mg | 0% | 5mg |
| Total Carbohydrate | 36g | 13% | 23.2g |
| Dietary Fiber | 2g | 8% | 1.4g |
| Total Sugars | 0g | – | 0.1g |
| Added Sugars | 0g | 0% | 0g |
| Protein | 6g | – | 3.8g |
| Vitamin D | 0mcg | 0% | 0mcg |
| Calcium | 10mg | 1% | 8mg |
| Iron | 0.6mg | 3% | 0.4mg |
| Potassium | 90mg | 2% | 58mg |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000-calorie diet (FDA adult reference values). Per-serving values use the FDA's label rounding rules; per-100 g values are the unrounded USDA amounts.
Macronutrient breakdown
By calories, couscous is 2% fat, 85% carbohydrate and 14% protein (Atwater 9/4/4 factors, per 1 cup, cooked). Of the 36.4 g of carbohydrate, 0.2 g is sugars and 2.2 g is dietary fiber.
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Source: USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy release (public domain). FDC ID 169700 - Couscous, cooked. Serving: 1 cup, cooked = 157 g (USDA household measure).