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Garlic bread calories per large slice: 387–453 across all 6 named USDA examples

Across all 6 named USDA examples, a large slice contains 387–453 calories. Their listed weights span 111–132 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.

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Preparation and portion

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Estimated for 1 medium slice · 74 g

258calories

Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant

Protein
6.2 g
Carbs
30.8 g
Fat
12.3 g

These values scale the selected reference food by weight. Ingredients, preparation, and portion size can change your meal’s estimate.

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Compare all 6 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 6 exact records in this guide report 258–302 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 339–351 calories per 100 grams. Those are observations from named database records—not a universal range or an estimate of an unseen plate.

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Start with the description closest to what you ate

For Garlic bread, begin by separating “Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant” from “Garlic bread, with parmesan cheese, from frozen.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.

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Equal-weight view

How garlic bread records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 6 cited records: minimum, 25th-ranked, median-ranked, 75th-ranked, and maximum. Weight is held at 100 grams; source-serving weights are listed in the table.

  1. Minimum: Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant 339 kcal
    339 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from frozen 343 kcal
    343 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant 349 kcal
    349 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Garlic bread, from frozen 350 kcal
    350 kcal
  5. Maximum: Garlic bread, with parmesan cheese, from frozen 351 kcal
    351 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 6 named USDA records in view: 6 direct matches. All sit within “Yeast breads.” The exact descriptions remain the unit of comparison; the familiar heading is only the doorway into the evidence.

Why these records appear together: The deterministic grouping rule “normalized first description segment” placed these 6 records together under the exact grouping key “garlic bread.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Garlic bread, this page can compare 6 named records from FDC 2707627 through FDC 2707630. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.

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Editor’s decision brief

The three facts to carry into the table

Carry the denominator, exact identity, and strongest observed contrast into every number below.

Portion

74–88 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.2× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

12 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant”; the higher is “with parmesan cheese, from frozen.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

3.1 g protein gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “from fast food / restaurant” (8.3 g) and “with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant” (11.4 g).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

The cards are ordered by calories in each record's listed serving. Serving weights differ, so use per-100-gram values to compare composition. These selected records do not define a calorie range for every garlic bread.

Important: “Lower” begins with Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant; “higher” ends with Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from frozen, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every garlic bread meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Garlic bread, serving columns preserve each record’s own listed amount, while calories per 100 g hold weight constant. A dash means the cited record does not supply that field; it does not mean the nutrient is absent.

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USDA records selected for the Garlic bread nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 74 gUSDA reference amount 258 kcal 349 6.2 g 1.9 g 459 mg FDC 2707627 ↗
Garlic bread, from frozen Direct name match 74 gUSDA reference amount 259 kcal 350 6.2 g 1.9 g 403 mg FDC 2707628 ↗
Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 88 gUSDA reference amount 298 kcal 339 10 g 1.8 g 560 mg FDC 2707631 ↗
Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from frozen Direct name match 88 gUSDA reference amount 302 kcal 343 9.2 g 1.9 g 496 mg FDC 2707632 ↗
Garlic bread, with parmesan cheese, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 79 gUSDA reference amount 277 kcal 351 6.9 g 1.9 g 507 mg FDC 2707629 ↗
Garlic bread, with parmesan cheese, from frozen Direct name match 79 gUSDA reference amount 277 kcal 351 6.9 g 2 g 449 mg FDC 2707630 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 74 to 88 grams—a 14-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 258 calories for “from fast food / restaurant” to 302 for “with melted cheese, from frozen.” At a fixed 100 grams, “with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant” is 339 calories and “with parmesan cheese, from frozen” is 351—a fixed-weight separation of 12 calories. For Garlic bread, the serving view answers “how much is in the database portion?”; the 100-gram view answers “how concentrated is the matched record?” Neither reveals how many grams were actually eaten.

The scaling rule: multiply a per-100-gram value by eaten grams ÷ 100. The arithmetic is exact; the result is only as defensible as the record match and portion estimate.

Preparation analysis

The long description carries the evidence

The published descriptions distinguish forms such as “from fast food / restaurant”, “from frozen”, “with melted cheese, from frozen”, “with parmesan cheese, from fast food / restaurant”, and “with parmesan cheese, from frozen”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes garlic bread, frozen; differentiating rows include salt, table, cheese, mozzarella, low moisture, part-skim, and cheese, parmesan, grated. On this Garlic bread page, those rows make the records inspectable, but they are not a controlled experiment: they cannot tell us that one named input, by itself, caused a nutrient difference.

Database precision is not meal certainty. Retain the exact description beside the number so later corrections remain possible.

What changes the comparison

Four drivers worth checking before choosing a record

The family label “Garlic bread” cannot resolve the differences between Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant and Garlic bread, with parmesan cheese, from frozen. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.

  1. 01

    Source weight before serving calories

    The source amounts span 74–88 grams. Compare per 100 grams before reading a serving-calorie gap as a composition gap.

  2. 02

    The words that split the family

    Representative record-level distinctions include “from fast food / restaurant”, “from frozen”, “with melted cheese, from frozen”, “with parmesan cheese, from fast food / restaurant”, and “with parmesan cheese, from frozen”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    Shared source rows include garlic bread, frozen; rows that vary across the set include salt, table, cheese, mozzarella, low moisture, part-skim, and cheese, parmesan, grated. Presence is inspectable evidence, not proof of nutrient causation.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Garlic bread unknowns for correction instead of converting them into false precision.

Record matching

Match identity first; scale quantity second

Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that garlic bread is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“from fast food / restaurant”, “with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant”, “with melted cheese, from frozen”, and “with parmesan cheese, from frozen”—before comparing gram weight. If a package, menu, or known recipe provides a closer first-party description, prefer it and keep this USDA record as a transparent fallback.

A practical matching checklist

  1. Read the complete Garlic bread source description, including preparation and additions.
  2. Compare the listed source weight with the amount actually eaten.
  3. Prefer a current package or restaurant source when a specific branded item is known.
  4. Record toppings, sauces, cooking fat, sides, and substitutions that the selected description does not name.

Decision support from the exact records on this page

Turn source data into a better next decision

These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 6 exact records behind Garlic bread source-record guide. Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant is higher in calcium per 100 g

Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant reports 160 mg versus 27 mg for Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant: a 133 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant is denser; Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from frozen is higher in its source amount

Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant reports 349 kcal per 100 g and 258 kcal in USDA source amount (74 g). Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from frozen reports a lower 343 kcal per 100 g but a higher 302 kcal in USDA source amount (88 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant” from “Garlic bread, with parmesan cheese, from frozen”

These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Garlic bread source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

6 context records in this source topic Yeast breads

Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant and Garlic bread, from frozen belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Salt, table

USDA input 2047 appears in 3 of 6 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.2–0.2 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Cheese, mozzarella, low moisture, part-skim

USDA input 1029 appears in 2 of 6 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 15–25 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 27 mg in Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant to 160 mg in Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2707627 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

Follow this evidence path 6 records share this broad food family Breads & baked goods: broader category context

Garlic bread, from fast food / restaurant and Garlic bread, from frozen, plus 4 more are assigned to Feast’s Breads & baked goods editorial category. Use the category page to compare nearby foods at a broad level; keep the exact USDA descriptions on this page for record-level decisions.

Follow this evidence path Check another exact record Garlic bread, with melted cheese, from fast food / restaurant

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2707631 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

Follow this evidence path