pastry
Warqa
Warqa is a pastry. It is plant-derived, so it rules out no diet on its own.
Also known asOuarka · Morocco
Not the same asMalsouka (Tunisia's equivalent hand-cooked pastry, made the same way but from a firmer semolina-and-flour batter rather than warqa's flour-only one. Malsouka is sturdier and used as a single sheet, where warqa is thinner and more fragile, and pastilla is built by stacking many layers of it.)Filo pastry (Filo is rolled and stretched into layered sheets, dry enough to be sold folded flat. Warqa is a wet batter dabbed onto a hot metal dome and peeled off the instant it sets, which is why it is sold fresh and refrigerated rather than boxed, and why filo makes an acceptable but noticeably drier stand-in when warqa is unavailable.)
Sheets · per 100 g
| Nutrient | Per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 299 kcal |
| Protein | 7.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 52.6 g |
| of which sugars | 0.2 g |
| Fibre | 1.9 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| of which saturates | 1.5 g |
| Monounsaturated fat | 3.1 g |
| Polyunsaturated fat | 0.9 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Sodium | 483 mg |
| Potassium | 74 mg |
| Calcium | 11 mg |
| Iron | 3.2 mg |
| Magnesium | 15 mg |
| Phosphorus | 75 mg |
| Zinc | 0.5 mg |
| Copper | 0.1 mg |
| Manganese | 0.5 mg |
| Selenium | 23.3 µg |
| Vitamin A | 0 µg |
| Vitamin C | 0 mg |
| Vitamin D | 0 µg |
| Vitamin E | 0.1 mg |
| Vitamin K | 2.5 µg |
| Thiamin | 0.5 mg |
| Riboflavin | 0.3 mg |
| Niacin | 4.1 mg |
| Vitamin B6 | 0 mg |
| Folate | 137 µg |
| Vitamin B12 | 0 µg |
| Choline | 6.9 mg |
USDA FDC SR Legacy record 172791. USDA publishes no record for warqa. This is its record for phyllo dough, the nearest thin, unleavened wheat pastry it carries; both are plain wheat doughs worked out to a fraction of a millimetre with no added fat, and their nutrition panels are a reasonable match at the resolution this site reports.