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Calories in lagman: 550–850 a bowl — and the noodles carry the load

Lagman — hand-pulled noodles under a beef-and-vegetable vadzhu — has no single database entry anywhere, because no two bowls agree on the noodle-to-sauce ratio. Honest numbers come from components with stated grams, straight from USDA FoodData Central:

The component math (restaurant bowl, ~500 g)

Component	Typical	Basis (per 100 g)	kcal
Hand-pulled noodles, cooked	300 g	Noodles, cooked — FDC 2708352: 137 kcal, 4.5 P / 25.0 C	≈411
Beef in the vadzhu	90 g	Beef, stew meat, cooked — FDC 2705849: 251 kcal, 28.4 P / 15.4 F	≈226
Peppers, onion, celery, tomato	120 g	minor calories; they arrive fried in the vadzhu oil (next row)	≈40
Vadzhu oil	0.5–1.5 tbsp retained	≈ 120 kcal/tbsp	60–180

Total ≈ 740 kcal typical; 550–850 is the honest range. Soupy guyru-lagman with broth sits lower; fried boso-lagman — the noodles themselves wok-fried in oil — jumps to the top of the range and beyond.

The one question that matters: boiled or fried? The same bowl of ingredients gains ~150–250 kcal the moment the noodles hit the wok. It's also the question a photo can't always answer — which is why Proba asks instead of guessing when confidence is low.

Protein check

A 740-kcal bowl carries ~35 g protein — decent, but noodle-dominant. Asking for extra beef shifts both satiety and the glucose picture (that carb load puts the estimated impact in the moderate-to-high band; estimate from composition, not a measurement).

Your bowl, itemized

Proba photographs your lagman, splits it into components with editable grams, and cites the USDA line behind every number on the pull-down receipt. Same bowl, same answer, every time — five-scan test welcome.

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Method & limitations: how Proba counts. Cited entries link to FoodData Central; values per 100 g as published.