Pistachios are 560 calories per 100g. The shelled-vs-unshelled distinction matters: 1 oz shelled is the standard portion, ~49 nuts. Eating them in-shell naturally slows down intake, which is why they're often described as the 'pacing nut'.
Calories scale with portion. Here's how a typical pistachios serving translates in your tracker:
Point your iPhone camera at pistachios and SpotWell's on-device AI estimates the portion and macros in under a second — no manual entry, no barcode hunting.
Download on theApp StorePistachios has approximately 560 calories per 100g. A typical serving — 1 oz (49 nuts, 28g) — comes in at 159 calories.
20g of protein per 100g. That puts pistachios at roughly 3.6g of protein per 100 calories — a useful lens when comparing to other nuts & seeds sources.
The simplest method: weigh it on a kitchen scale, then enter grams in your tracker. With SpotWell, you can skip the scale — point the camera at the plate and the AI estimates the portion in under a second. Adjust the value if it looks off.
It depends on your overall calorie target. Pistachios is calorie-dense at 560 kcal per 100g, so portion control matters more than with low-cal foods.