Olive Garden serves its customers free breadsticks, before and during dinner. The breadsticks are coated with a garlic-butter spread and are popular with customers. It is easy to fill up on the breadsticks before you even receive your dinner entree. You may be surprised how many calories you take in at Olive Garden with just a few breadsticks.
Nutritional Serving Size
A serving size is one breadstick. The nutritional information provided is the amount for a single breadstick. However, on its website, Olive Garden says that the food is hand-crafted at each restaurant, which may result in some fluctuations from the numbers provided.
Actual Serving Size
Even though a serving size is one breadstick, Olive Garden waiters do not bring just one breadstick per person at the table. The breadsticks come in a basket, usually with five breadsticks. The breadsticks can continually be replenished throughout your meal.
Method
According to the Olive Garden website, a laboratory that specializes in nutritional analysis evaluates each dish several times to determine the nutritional content. The website describes the procedure as a "highly scientific process."
Total Calories
There are 150 calories in one Olive Garden breadstick. A standard basket of breadsticks contains 750 calories.
Breakdown
A breadstick contains 2g of fat but no saturated fat. There are 28g of carbohydrates, 2g of these being dietary fiber. A breadstick has 5g of protein and 400mg of sodium.
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