Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza: calories, sodium and protein by portion, age and sex

Nutrition information: Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza

Nutrition figures are Subway’s published US data (October 2026), per item as built by Subway and before any optional extras. Boone converts them to the portion and age comparisons on this page.

Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza carries a large share of a child’s daily sodium

Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza contains 1,590mg of sodium, which is 106% of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 8. It is also high in saturated fat.

FDA Daily Values (2,000-calorie diet)

Where the sugar comes from: Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza

3g of the 8g counts as added sugar, or about 0.7 teaspoons. The other 5g is naturally occurring.

Added sugars come from

• sugar in the cheese pizza
• sugar in the meatballs and marinara

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the cheese pizza
• lactose in the meatballs and marinara

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030: no more than 10g of added sugar per meal from age 11 and none for children aged 10 and under. FDA Daily Value: 50g a day. Added sugar is Subway’s published figure; sources are read from the published ingredient list for each component.

Processing and additives: Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza

Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza is built from 2 components, combined and served at the point of sale. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains modified starches, firming agents and protein and dairy fractions. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza as NOVA group 4, ultra-processed, based on the additives named above. NOVA groups foods by how far they are from their whole-food form, not by how nutritious they are. A group 4 food is not automatically unhealthy, and a group 1 food is not automatically healthy. Read from the published ingredient list, October 2026.

Ingredient count by order: Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza

The 13 manufactured ingredients

calcium chloride, citric acid, enzyme, enzymes, folic acid, modified corn starch, niacin, non fat dry milk, reduced iron, riboflavin, soy protein concentrate, textured soy protein concentrate, thiamine mononitrate.

The 26 raw ingredients

basil, beef, cheese culture, cheese cultures, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, dehydrated parsley, garlic powder, herbs and spices, onion powder, oregano, pasteurized cow's milk, pasteurized part-skim cow's milk, pasteurized part-skim milk, pork, salt, soybean oil, spice, spices, sugar, tomato juice, tomato paste, tomatoes, water, wheat flour, yeast.

Boone counts every distinct named ingredient on Subway’s published component lists, including sub-ingredients, and removes duplicates, so salt appearing in four components counts once. Raw covers whole foods and basic kitchen staples such as flour, sugar, salt and oil. Manufactured covers substances that only exist as an output of industrial processing. Every figure here is a minimum.

Ingredients by component: Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza

Ingredients taken from Subway’s US Product Ingredient Guide, October 2026. The component build follows Subway’s standard recipe for this item; Boone checked it against Subway’s published nutrition totals. Recipes change, so always check in restaurant before ordering if you have an allergy.

Allergen information: Subway US Meatball 8 Inch Pizza

Contains = declared in Subway’s US allergy chart or ingredient guide. May contain = Subway states the allergen may be present, including cookies displayed beside nut-containing cookies. Refined oil only = the soy is highly refined soybean oil, which the FDA exempts from allergen labelling. Subway prepares food on shared equipment, so no item can be guaranteed allergen free. UK rules also require barley, oats, mustard, celery and sulphites to be declared; these are shown where the ingredient list names them. October 2026.