Low carb vegan pasta: 7 picks compared, 2 lookalikes with egg

The low-carb vegan pastas are made from konjac or hearts of palm. Miracle Noodle’s spaghetti lists 1 g of net carbs a serving, and Trader Joe’s Hearts of Palm Pasta works out to 2 g (our arithmetic). Bean pastas carry more carbs and far more protein. A box that says cauliflower can fail on both counts.

The cauliflower linguini this page used to recommend is the case in point. Taste Republic’s Cauliflower Linguini lists whole egg and egg white in its ingredients, with “Contains: Egg” printed below them. Its labeled serving, 1 cup (85 g), carries 45 g of total carbohydrate. A 2 oz serving of Trader Joe’s plain durum wheat spaghetti lists 41 g. Taste Republic sells the linguini as gluten free, grain free, paleo and dairy free. None of the four says vegan or low carb, and the linguini is neither.

So this version starts from the label and works back. We read each maker’s own product page and nutrition information in October 2026, and compared nine pastas: seven vegan, two that aren’t. If you are planning a whole low-carb vegan week rather than one plate of noodles, our guide to eating vegan and low carb covers the food groups; this page is about the box in your cart.

Is cauliflower pasta low carb?

Cauliflower comes first on both cauliflower products here, and starch comes soon after. Taste Republic’s list runs cauliflower powder, water, potato starch, tapioca starch, then whole egg and egg white. Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Gnocchi is about 75% cauliflower, with cassava flour, potato starch, olive oil and sea salt making up the rest, and a 1 cup serving lists 22 g of total carbohydrate. That is about half of what the plain spaghetti lists per serving (our arithmetic), which is a real cut, and nowhere near the konjac pouches.

The gnocchi is also the honest one of the two. Trader Joe’s states that no dairy or eggs go into it, and the ingredient list agrees. Its product page then suggests tossing the gnocchi in butter with Parmesan, or in pasta sauce with fresh basil. A vegan reader takes the second suggestion and keeps the product.

“Made with cauliflower” tells you what went in first. It tells you nothing about the carbs or the egg, so the nutrition panel and the allergen line decide it.

Nine pastas, carbs per labeled serving

Servings differ. The bean pastas and the wheat spaghetti are weighed dry, 2 oz (56 g) before cooking. The gnocchi and Taste Republic’s fresh linguini use a 1 cup serving. The ready-to-eat noodles are served as a share of the bag as sold: about half a pouch, the whole bag, a third of the package. Net carbs below are total carbohydrate minus dietary fiber (our arithmetic) unless the maker gives only a net figure. Prices are the makers’ own, read in October 2026, and they change; per-serving costs are our arithmetic.

Pasta	Vegan?	Serving	Total carbs	Fiber	Net carbs	Protein	Price per serving
Miracle Noodle Low-Carb Spaghetti	Yes, Certified Vegan logo on a pouch image	About half a 7 oz pouch	Not listed on the page	2 g	1 g, per the maker	0 g	About $3.00
Trader Joe’s Hearts of Palm Pasta	Yes, tagged vegan	85 g, a third of the package	4 g	2 g	2 g	Less than 1 g	About $1.16
House Foods Tofu Shirataki Spaghetti	Yes, per the maker	The whole 226 g bag	6 g	4 g	2 g	2 g	No price on the maker’s page
Explore Cuisine Edamame & Mung Bean Fettuccine	Yes, vegan mark on the box	2 oz dry	21 g	12 g	9 g	24 g	$1.25
Explore Cuisine Black Bean Spaghetti	Yes, one ingredient: black soybean flour	2 oz dry	23 g	12 g	11 g	23 g	$1.25
Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Gnocchi	Yes, by its ingredient list	1 cup, 140 g	22 g	6 g	16 g	2 g	About $1.40
Banza Chickpea Spaghetti	Yes, tagged vegan	2 oz dry	31 g	11 g	20 g	11 g	$1.25
Taste Republic Cauliflower Linguini	No: whole egg, egg white	1 cup, 85 g	45 g	5 g	40 g	10 g	About $3.33
Great Low Carb Bread Co. Spaghetti	No: egg white powder	2 oz dry	33 g	28 g	5 g	19 g	About $1.87

For scale, the plain Trader Joe’s spaghetti lists 41 g of total carbohydrate, 2 g of fiber and 7 g of protein per 2 oz dry serving, and costs $0.99 for 16 oz, about 12 cents a serving (our arithmetic).

The seven vegan pastas, and two that look the part

Miracle Noodle Low-Carb Spaghetti

The lowest net carb figure here, from three ingredients: water, konjac flour and a little citric acid. Miracle Noodle lists 5 calories, 1 g of net carbs, 2 g of fiber and 0 g of protein per serving, with about 2 servings in a bag. One of the pouch images on its product page carries the Certified Vegan logo.

The noodles come fully cooked. The maker’s instructions are to rinse them under cold water for about 90 seconds, then give them a minute or two in a hot, dry pan before the sauce goes in. It also warns that you may notice a faint mineral scent when you open the bag, which it puts down to the packing water. Credit to the maker for saying so up front.

The catch is the price. Six 7 oz pouches cost $35.94 on Miracle Noodle’s site, about $3.00 a serving, roughly 24 times the plain spaghetti’s cost (both our arithmetic). Skip it if you want the pasta to bring protein to the plate: it lists none.

Trader Joe’s Hearts of Palm Pasta

One ingredient, hearts of palm, cut into strands, with nothing added. A third of the package (85 g) lists 20 calories, 4 g of total carbohydrate, 2 g of fiber and less than 1 g of protein. Trader Joe’s tags it vegan and gluten free, and lists it at $3.49 for 9 oz, about $1.16 a serving (our arithmetic). Of the two very low-carb options with a price on the maker’s page, it is the cheaper one.

It is a Trader Joe’s own-label product, and Trader Joe’s own page warns that price and details may have changed since posting. Its supplier is in Ecuador and, per Trader Joe’s, uses palms grown for heart harvesting. If you don’t live near a store, this pick doesn’t exist for you.

House Foods Tofu Shirataki Spaghetti

A blend of tofu and konjac: water, soybeans, konjac flour, calcium hydroxide, glucono delta lactone and calcium sulfate. House Foods calls it vegan and lists the whole 226 g bag as one serving: 20 calories, 6 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of fiber and 2 g of protein.

It contains soy, so skip it with a soy allergy. It is also the only vegan pasta here that lives in the fridge: the bag reads perishable, keep refrigerated, do not freeze. House Foods shows no price on its page, so we can’t compare it on cost.

Explore Cuisine Edamame & Mung Bean Fettuccine

The pick when the pasta has to carry the protein. Two ingredients, organic edamame bean flour and organic mung bean flour, and a 2 oz dry serving lists 21 g of total carbohydrate, 12 g of fiber and 24 g of protein. That is 9 g of net carbs (our arithmetic), more than the konjac and palm noodles, and about a quarter of the plain spaghetti’s (our arithmetic).

The box carries a vegan mark. Explore Cuisine lists six 8 oz boxes at $30, which works out to $1.25 a serving at four servings a box (our arithmetic). Its own store showed it sold out when we checked on 28 October 2026, and the page also points to Amazon. It contains soy. Don’t buy it expecting wheat pasta with a tint. Both flours are beans.

Explore Cuisine Black Bean Spaghetti

Same maker, one ingredient: organic black soybean flour. A 2 oz dry serving lists 23 g of total carbohydrate, 12 g of fiber and 23 g of protein, so 11 g of net carbs (our arithmetic), close to the fettuccine. The price is the same, $30 for six 8 oz boxes.

The US box image on the maker’s page shows no vegan mark, though its single ingredient is a soybean flour. That box also says made in China, distributed by a New Jersey company, if country of origin decides things for you. Unlike the fettuccine, it was in stock on Explore Cuisine’s store on 28 October 2026. It contains soy.

Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Gnocchi

The vegan cauliflower product on this list, and the one that most needs its numbers read. A 1 cup (140 g) serving lists 22 g of total carbohydrate, 6 g of fiber and 2 g of protein: 16 g of net carbs (our arithmetic), lower than the plain spaghetti or Banza and well above the konjac. Trader Joe’s prices it at $3.49 for 12 oz, about $1.40 a serving at roughly 2.5 servings a bag (our arithmetic).

Watch the salt: 460 mg of sodium a serving, 20% of the daily value. Trader Joe’s recommends pan-frying it from frozen. Not a pick if you count carbs closely; a decent one if you want gnocchi made mostly from cauliflower.

Banza Chickpea Spaghetti

Here for contrast. The ingredients are chickpeas, pea starch, tapioca and xanthan gum, and Banza’s own store tags it vegan. A 2 oz dry serving lists 31 g of total carbohydrate, 11 g of fiber and 11 g of protein.

That is 20 g of net carbs (our arithmetic), about half of the plain spaghetti’s 39 g by the same subtraction, and more than double the Explore Cuisine fettuccine’s. Banza lists twelve boxes for $59.99, $1.25 a serving at four servings a box (our arithmetic), though that pack showed sold out on its store on 28 October 2026. Buy it for the extra protein and fiber over wheat pasta. Don’t buy it as a low-carb pasta; by its own panel it isn’t one.

Taste Republic Cauliflower Linguini

Not vegan. The ingredients are cauliflower powder, water, potato starch, tapioca starch, whole egg, egg white, xanthan gum, salt, glucono delta-lactone and konjac, and the label says “Contains: Egg”.

It isn’t low carb either. A 1 cup (85 g) serving lists 45 g of total carbohydrate and 5 g of fiber. It is fresh pasta, refrigerated for up to 35 days after arrival or frozen for up to 12 months, and a six-pack costs $59.99 on the maker’s site. It is gluten free and dairy free, as advertised. Vegan it isn’t.

Great Low Carb Bread Co. Spaghetti

The panel looks like the answer. A 2 oz (56 g) dry serving lists 100 calories, 33 g of total carbohydrate, 28 g of fiber and 19 g of protein, so 5 g of net carbs, which is also the maker’s own figure. The ingredient list ends the conversation. It runs modified tapioca starch, wheat gluten, pea protein, water, wheat fiber, egg white powder, acacia fiber and durum wheat semolina, and the allergen line under it names wheat and egg. So it is neither vegan nor gluten free. At $7.49 for 8 oz, about $1.87 a serving (our arithmetic), it isn’t cheap either.

How to read the carb line yourself

The Nutrition Facts panel has no net carb line. Federal labeling rules set total carbohydrate as a calculated figure, with dietary fiber listed indented beneath it, so the fiber is already inside the total. “Net carbs” on the front of a pouch is the maker’s own figure. Miracle Noodle prints 1 g on the front and on its page. Banza shows why you check: a box image on its own product page prints 47 g of net carbs and 13 g of fiber per 3.5 oz. The Nutrition Facts panel on the same page lists 55 g of total carbohydrate and 20 g of fiber for that amount, which comes to 35 g net (our arithmetic). Do the subtraction yourself from the panel, and every box gets compared on the same terms.

Then compare like with like. A 2 oz dry serving of bean or wheat pasta is weighed before it goes in the water. A konjac or hearts of palm serving is a share of the bag as sold. Neither panel describes your plate, so compare the grams per serving and then decide how much of the bag you will eat.

For the egg, read the allergen line. Egg is one of the nine major food allergens, and a US label has to name it in the ingredient list or in a Contains statement next to it. That is how both lookalikes above give themselves away. Many animal ingredients aren’t on that list of nine, which is why our list of foods that aren’t vegan exists, but for pasta, egg is the ingredient to look for, and the law makes it visible.

Which one to buy

For the fewest carbs, Miracle Noodle Low-Carb Spaghetti, if you can live with the price and the rinse. If there is a Trader Joe’s near you, the Hearts of Palm Pasta gets you to 4 g of total carbohydrate a serving for about $1.16, and it is the one we’d put in the cart first. Choose House Foods Tofu Shirataki if you want a little protein from the noodle and have fridge space.

If you count protein as much as carbs, Explore Cuisine’s Edamame & Mung Bean Fettuccine: 24 g of protein and 9 g of net carbs per 2 oz (our arithmetic). While its own store is sold out, the Black Bean Spaghetti comes close at 23 g of protein and 11 g net. Keep the Cauliflower Gnocchi for nights when carbs matter less than texture, and Banza for nights when they don’t matter much at all.

The one to skip is any cauliflower pasta you haven’t turned over. Taste Republic’s has egg and 45 g of carbohydrate a serving, and the word cauliflower in the name didn’t change either. At a restaurant there is no bag to turn over, so our guide to vegan options at Italian restaurants does the reading for the big chains.