A popular offering at Olive Garden is the lunch with unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks. One of the soups offered with this option is the minestrone soup, which is the lightest of the soups available at Olive Garden.
Calories
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a typically commercially prepared minestrone soup has 82 calories in 1 cup. The Olive Garden website states that the minestrone has 100 calories per serving.
Calories from Fat
MedlinePlus from the National Institutes of Health notes that each gram of fat has nine calories. The minestrone soup at Olive Garden has 1 g of fat per serving and thus nine calories from fat.
Calories from Carbohydrates
You will find four calories in each g of carbohydrates. The 18 g of carbs in Oliver Garden's minestrone soup therefore give you 72 calories from carbohydrates.
Calories from Protein
Each gram of protein also has 4 calories. There are only 5 g of protein in a serving of minestrone soup from Olive Garden, accounting for 20 calories from protein.
Sodium
The soap is heavy in sodium at 1,020 mg.
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