How many calories are in spaghetti bolognese?
Logged in Kallo on November 1, 2026
Anywhere from about 200 to 1,000 kcal. The amount of pasta on the plate is the biggest lever, then the meat in the sauce. Here are four real plates, each typed into Kallo the way people describe them.
Italian restaurant, big plate
Spaghetti bolognese at an Italian restaurant (big plate of spaghetti + beef bolognese sauce + parmesan on top)
Spaghetti bolognese at an Italian restaurant (big plate of spaghetti + beef bolognese sauce + parmesan on top)
Homemade, lean beef
Homemade spaghetti bolognese (100g dry spaghetti + 120g lean beef mince + tomato sauce + onion + 1 teaspoon olive oil)
Homemade spaghetti bolognese (100g dry spaghetti + 120g lean beef mince + tomato sauce + onion + 1 teaspoon olive oil)
Small portion, no cheese
Spaghetti bolognese, small portion (1 cup cooked spaghetti + 1 ladle of beef bolognese sauce, no cheese)
Spaghetti bolognese, small portion (1 cup cooked spaghetti + 1 ladle of beef bolognese sauce, no cheese)
Turkey sauce on zucchini noodles
Turkey bolognese on zucchini noodles (150g turkey mince + tomato sauce + 2 spiralized zucchini + a bit of parmesan)
Turkey bolognese on zucchini noodles (150g turkey mince + tomato sauce + 2 spiralized zucchini + a bit of parmesan)
What moves the number
At the restaurant, 280 g of cooked spaghetti is nearly half of the plate. The meat sauce adds 376 kcal.
Where these numbers come from
Each meal above was typed into Kallo once, on November 1, 2026. Kallo split it into ingredients, estimated the grams, and took calories and macros from USDA FoodData Central.
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Type yours the way you would say it, like “spaghetti bolognese, small plate, extra sauce, no cheese”, and Kallo works out the rest.