It cuts the fat. It can be a tomato sauce or a clam sauce. You can have meat sauce or meatballs. Even adding sausage only bumps the fat to about 35 percent of calories. The same holds true for artery-clogging saturated fat.
Many experts recommend keeping sat fat below ten percent of calories.
Except for Fettucini Alfredo, no spaghetti-based dish topped nine percent. That's not nearly as low as Chinese food, but it puts standard American fare to shame. Many restaurants do. Sure enough, add a typical 1 -cup portion of spaghetti to the eggplant and you cut its fat from about 60 percent of calories to about 45. It's a relief to know that you can find lowfat entrees at Italian restaurants, but that's not the whole ballgame.