Olive Garden Nutrition Facts

About Olive Garden's menu

Olive Garden, owned by Darden Restaurants, runs more than 880 locations across the United States and abroad. Its menu is built around large-format Italian-American comfort food — fettuccine alfredo, lasagna classico, chicken parmigiana, the unlimited soup-salad-and-breadsticks lunch — and portions are calibrated for sharing or a deliberate take-home box. The brand publishes a complete nutrition guide on olivegarden.com/nutrition and we transcribe it here.

Across the 32 entries we track from Olive Garden, average calorie load lands at 604 per serving, with the lightest item at 30 calories and the heaviest at 1600 calories. Average sodium is 1,248mg, which is broadly consistent with the casual-dining segment's reliance on brined proteins, finishing sauces and seasoned sides. Average protein delivery per entrée is 28g.

The chain publishes its own legal nutrition disclosure online — that disclosure is the canonical source of the per-item numbers we list here. Where the chain's published values are missing or look inconsistent with the underlying ingredients, we cross-reference against USDA FoodData Central reference values for the relevant components and flag the dish in our internal review queue.

How to read the table above

Calorie counts are flagged green for items under 500 calories, amber for 500–900, and red for anything above 900 — the rough breakpoints between a light meal, a normal restaurant entrée, and an indulgent plate. Sodium values can run very high in casual-dining kitchens because the standard line uses brined proteins, jarred sauces and seasoned starches; anything over 1,500mg in a single dish is worth weighing against the rest of your day.

If you have allergies

Every item page on this site lists the allergens flagged in Olive Garden's public allergen panel. Cross-contact in a shared kitchen is always possible, even when the dish itself doesn't list the allergen. For severe allergies, the standard precaution is to ask the floor manager — not just the server — to confirm the kitchen can safely accommodate the request before you commit to ordering.