Cooked and uncooked pasta — 2-ounce portions on the left, and 3-ounce portions on the right. On American nutrition labels, 2 ounces is considered a serving of pasta.

How much is a serving of pasta? It’s not always 2 ounces. The serving size on pasta nutrition labels is 2 ounces, but to plenty of people, that’s pretty stingy.

When determining for yourself how much pasta you need to feed a group of people, you can certainly take a 2-ounce serving size into account, but that is only one factor.

When determining for yourself how much pasta you need to feed a group of people, you can certainly take a 2-ounce serving size into account, but that is only one factor. If the eaters are people you ...