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Gyro calories: meat, pita, sauce, counted together

October 28, 2026 · Viral Tandel

Gyro calories work out at about 368 for a sandwich, on the United States Department of Agriculture figure of 184 kcal per 100 g and a published sandwich weight of 200 g. What makes this one unusually easy is that USDA treats the whole assembled sandwich as a single entry.

Key takeaways

• 184 kcal per 100 g. USDA weighs one sandwich at 200 g, giving about 368 kcal.
• The entry covers the assembled sandwich: meat, pita and sauce together.
• 11.24 g protein, 18.78 g carbohydrate and 6.76 g fat per 100 g.
• There is no separate sourced figure here for gyro meat on its own, so a gyro bowl is not covered.
• A visibly oversized gyro should be scaled from the per 100 g figure, not logged as one sandwich.

The figures

Two things stand out. The first is that 184 kcal per 100 g is lower than most people guess for a sandwich built on seasoned meat and a sauce, and the reason is that a gyro is largely bread, meat and salad, none of which are especially dense.

The second is the protein. At 22.5 g for the sandwich it is a genuinely substantial amount, which is worth knowing if you are building a day around a protein target rather than only a calorie one.

What the single entry does and does not buy you

Having the whole sandwich as one USDA entry removes the usual restaurant problem, which is that you cannot see how much of anything went in. There is no need to estimate the tzatziki separately or guess at the pita, because the figure already includes them.

The cost of that convenience is that you cannot take it apart. If you are eating gyro meat over rice or in a salad bowl rather than in a pita, this entry does not apply and there is no sourced substitute for it on this site. Saying so is more useful than handing you a number derived by subtracting an imagined pita.

That is the same honest limit described in logging a restaurant meal without a barcode: use the composite figure when the composite is what you ate, and say "varies, estimate" when it is not.

Size, and the "any size" problem

USDA labels the portion "1 sandwich, any size" and weighs it at 200 g. That is a representative sandwich rather than a measurement of yours.

Gyros vary a lot between a small lunch wrap and a large one from a dedicated grill. If yours was visibly bigger, use the per 100 g column and estimate the weight rather than logging one sandwich and moving on. Doubling the bread and meat doubles the number, and nothing about the word gyro signals which you had.

The same caution applies to anything served with chips or a side, which are separate entries and are very easy to leave out of the log entirely.

Logging it

One line, the sandwich, 368 kcal if it looked standard. Add the sides separately. If it came as a platter rather than a sandwich, treat the figure as an estimate and keep the estimate consistent week to week.

For the sweet course that often follows, baklava calories covers a figure that surprises people considerably more than this one does.

KalTrack will judge the sandwich against the plate and show you the size it assumed, which is the only part of this worth correcting. Point it at your lunch.

This is general information about published nutrition data, not medical advice. If you are managing a health condition or following a prescribed diet, talk to a clinician or a registered dietitian.