Olive Garden Whole Wheat Pasta?

[Kalymi]

Not for the earlier phases of Atkins of course, but does anyone know if the Olive Garden selection of Whole Wheat pasta is friendly for the later phases? I looked on the web site and it didnt have any nutrition counts for it....

[Naja]

I would be a little suspicious. Just because a pasta or a bread says "whole wheat" does not mean it is not primarily made with white flour and other nasty ingredients. There may be a tiny amount of expensive whole wheat flour in the stuff, and the rest is white flour. Read labels carefully as there are a lot of these kinds of ripoff products out there.

Without an ingredient list, I wouldn't eat it.

[Kalymi]

thanks for the advice! Knew it sounded too good :anger

[sstruemph]

I had to go there to eat dinner with my family and got the whole wheat pasta.

I felt like crap for 2 days after that. It made me gain weight and felt bloated. I think their website said it has 17% fewer carbs but that's not much really.

[kelly94942]

Re: Olive Garden Whole Wheat Pasta?

Any new news on the whole wheat pasta? Does Olive Garden still carry it? Has anyone found nutritional information on it?

[not2late]

Re: Olive Garden Whole Wheat Pasta?

It depends on the brand of pasta they use. As Naja said, with whole wheat pasta only a portion of the total flour is whole wheat.

This is the nutritional info found for generic whole wheat pasta:
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshel...523,82,00.html

Note: the serving size is for 1 cup cooked pasta. It's doubtful a restaurant will serve 1 cup of pasta as a part of a pasta-based entree. Restaurant servings are more like 2 or 3 cups.

The pasta seems a viable option for the Maintenance phase, but for OWL or Pre-Maintenance....let's see, 5 net carbs would be about 1/6 cup, which is roughly 2.5 tablespoons, 10 net carbs would be about 1/3 cup, which is roughly 5 tablespoons. At those amounts the pasta would be a garnish than a substantial part of a dish.