How many calories are in spaghetti carbonara?
Logged in Kallo on November 1, 2026
Anywhere from about 300 to 900 kcal. The pasta portion sets the floor; cream and how much cured pork goes in decide the rest. Here are four real plates, each typed into Kallo the way people describe them.
Italian restaurant, guanciale
Spaghetti carbonara at an Italian restaurant (spaghetti + guanciale + egg yolks + pecorino + black pepper)
Spaghetti carbonara at an Italian restaurant (spaghetti + guanciale + egg yolks + pecorino + black pepper)
With cream and bacon
Spaghetti carbonara made with cream (spaghetti + bacon + cream + egg + parmesan)
Spaghetti carbonara made with cream (spaghetti + bacon + cream + egg + parmesan)
Homemade, weighed
Homemade carbonara (100g dry spaghetti + 2 eggs + 40g pancetta + 20g parmesan)
Homemade carbonara (100g dry spaghetti + 2 eggs + 40g pancetta + 20g parmesan)
Small plate
Small plate of carbonara (1 cup cooked spaghetti + a bit of bacon + egg + parmesan)
Small plate of carbonara (1 cup cooked spaghetti + a bit of bacon + egg + parmesan)
What moves the number
At the restaurant, the pasta is just over half of it. The egg yolks, guanciale and pecorino that make the sauce add 288 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 and Vietnam’s National Institute of Nutrition.
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Type yours the way you would say it, like “carbonara, small plate, no cream, extra pepper”, and Kallo works out the rest.