Olive Garden Calories & Nutrition (43 plates)

At Olive Garden a dish comes with choices its nutrition guide prints as separate rows, so this page counts each dish with them: of the 43 dishes that fit a 1,500-calorie cap, 38 come with an optional soup or salad and 5 come with a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad. Every total and meal here adds those choices at their printed values; the lightest plate is the Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce (Lighter Portion) at 440 calories with its lightest choices.

Source: Olive Garden nutrition guide (official), August 31, 2026 edition · Data refreshed September 16, 2026

• 43 plates
• 440 cal lightest plate
• 25 plates ≤ 1,000 cal
• 79g top protein in one plate

As of September 2026, 25 of the 43 Olive Garden dishes we track come to 1,000 calories or less with their lightest choices, and the most protein in one plate is 79 g (Chicken Alfredo with Grilled Chicken, 1,480 calories).

How Olive Garden meals are counted here

• A Create Your Own Pasta is a pasta, a sauce, the topping Olive Garden's own page adds ("add a topping like meatballs, chicken or shrimp") and the soup or salad every entrée comes with; the topping is optional, so a meal names the one it counts or leaves it out. Olive Garden's own order page adds 2 breadsticks (130 cal each plain, 140 cal with garlic topping) that are not in these totals.
• Entrées come with soup or salad; a meal names the one it counts, or says no soup or salad. Olive Garden's own order page adds 2 breadsticks (130 cal each plain, 140 cal with garlic topping) that are not in these totals.

A meal is one plate (the dish and a valid pick for each of its choices, never the same row twice) and at most one drink, and its totals are the printed rows added together. 6 dishes are listed but never put in a meal: the guide prints it, but Olive Garden's own Create Your Own Pasta order page offers only Rigatoni, Spaghetti, Angel Hair, Gluten-Free Rotini and Bucatini (restaurants 1005, 1267 and 1008, 2026-09-16) (1), sold only in some regions (1) and its lightest plate is over 1,500 calories (4). 8 starters are listed on their own and never counted as a meal.

• Sauces (4): creamy mushroom sauce, five cheese marinara, marinara and meat sauce.
• Toppings (7): crispy shrimp fritta, a crispy chicken fritta, grilled chicken, two Italian sausage links, three meatballs, sautéed shrimp and broccoli.
• Soups or salads (5): chicken & gnocchi soup, minestrone soup, pasta fagioli soup, zuppa toscana soup and a Famous House Salad with Italian dressing.

Complete Olive Garden meals under 800 calories

The best plate and drink under 800 calories for each goal, as the MinMax app builds it.

Olive Garden dishes, lightest plate first

Each dish with what it comes with, alone and with its lightest choices.

Olive Garden starters

Dishes these meals leave out

Olive Garden nutrition (lowest calories first)

Calories and macros for the 167 Olive Garden rows we track, as printed: dishes, sides and choices, drinks and the rest. Also available as JSON.

Source: Olive Garden nutrition guide (official), August 31, 2026 edition · Data refreshed September 16, 2026. Figures are estimates and may change — verify with Olive Garden. Read how we gather and check this data.

What Olive Garden dishes come with, in the chain's own words:

• “Pasta Choices - Cucina Mia Rigatoni (V) Spaghetti (V) Angel Hair (V) Gluten-Free Rotini (V) Bucatini (V)” (olivegarden.com, read 2026-09-16)
• “Choose Soup or Salad (Included With Your Entree)” (olivegarden.com, read 2026-09-16)
• “Pasta Sauces Marinara (G) (V) Five Cheese Marinara (V) Meat Sauce (G) Creamy Mushroom (V) No Sauce” (olivegarden.com, read 2026-09-16)
• “Create your own pasta when you choose your favorite pasta shape and sauce and add a topping like meatballs, chicken or shrimp! Add a Topping Add Three Meatballs Add Two Italian Sausage Add One Crispy Chicken Fritta Add One Grilled Chicken Add 16 Sauteed Shrimp Add Broccoli Add 16 Crispy Shrimp Fritta” (olivegarden.com, read 2026-09-16)

More at Olive Garden

• Olive Garden under 600 calories (10 plates)
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• Olive Garden under 1,200 calories (35 plates)
• High-protein Olive Garden plates (12 dishes)
• Olive Garden calorie calculator (build a plate under your cap)

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