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by gnabgib 18 days ago
Pasta should be made of whole durum wheat.. which is 12g/100g. What's this "good" you speak of? There's certainly worse (soft white/red flour with germ/bran removed), but where do we find the +3g?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta
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purerandomness 13 days ago
> Each of the hundreds of varieties of wheat cultivated in the United States falls under one of six classes depending on its planting time, harvest, hardiness, color and shape. The protein content of these wheat varieties ranges from 10 to 15 percent; durum wheat is the second highest. One hundred grams of durum wheat has 13.68 grams of protein; soft red winter wheat has 10.35 grams; soft white wheat contains 10.69 grams; hard white wheat has 11.31 grams; and 100 grams of hard red winter wheat has 12.61. The highest protein content occurs in hard red spring wheat, which contains 15.4 grams of protein per 100 grams.

https://www.weekand.com/healthy-living/article/protein-durum...

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mullingitover 18 days ago
From your own link:

> Main ingredients: Durum wheat flour, water/eggs

May be going out on a limb here but I think it might be the eggs?

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kennywinker 18 days ago
What LLM model are you using to figure that out? The reasoning mode must be frontier level.

/satire, obviously ;)

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stamps 18 days ago
I know felcetti has a few varieties that exceed that number. ~112g for 16g protein.
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gnabgib 18 days ago
The brand that uses khorasan wheat in some versions? Yeah they're a little higher (14.7g/100g). We're stretching the definition of pasta now (it's certainly the highest protein grain you can find)
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stamps 18 days ago
Yeah I’m not 100% sure, they claim “special durum wheat variety.”

For the price, from a protein perspective, it would be cheaper to get it elsewhere.

https://shopfelicettipasta.com/products/monograno-felicetti-...

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gnabgib 18 days ago
They do, but they have to use the standard numbers for durum (like everyone else, even growers - individual berries vary, of course). The only one I can find with these high numbers is the khorasan wheat versions[0].

[0]: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81UbkYz+pZL._SL1500_.jpg

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