Lettuce, no dressing: standard vs egg USDA FDC 2709825 vs 2709827
Per 100 g, standard reports 91 calories, while egg reports 71 calories.
The comparison uses two cited USDA records. Their complete source names, household portions, nutrient values, and FoodData Central links remain visible below.
Record A · FDC 2709825
Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing
Check this record in FoodData Central ↗Record B · FDC 2709827
Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing
Check this record in FoodData Central ↗Highlighted difference
Calories at the same 100-gram weight
Bar length shows the two cited values on one shared denominator. It does not rank either food or establish why they differ.
- Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing 91 kcal
91 kcal -
71 kcal
Shared basis: 100 g · kcal
Equal-weight evidence
Nutrition per 100 grams
Both columns use the same mass, which compares nutrient concentration without allowing the two representative source amounts to change the denominator. “A +” or “B +” reports the arithmetic difference between the cited values; it is not a quality score.
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| Nutrient | A · Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/… | B · Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato… | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| CaloriesMaterial difference | 91 kcal | 71 kcal | A +20 kcal |
| Protein | 4.9 g | 4.2 g | A +0.7 g |
| Total fat | 6.1 g | 4.4 g | A +1.7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 4.2 g | 3.7 g | A +0.5 g |
| Dietary fiber | 1.2 g | 1.2 g | Same reported value |
| Total sugars | 1.6 g | 1.6 g | Same reported value |
| Sodium | 146 mg | 106 mg | A +40 mg |
| Saturated fatMaterial difference | 3.4 g | 2.1 g | A +1.3 g |
| Potassium | 238 mg | 239 mg | B +1 mg |
| Calcium | 149 mg | 93 mg | A +56 mg |
| Iron | 0.3 mg | 0.4 mg | B +0.1 mg |
Values come from the two cited USDA FoodData Central Survey Foods records. Feast does not average records, impute missing values, or infer a nutrient from the food name.
Read the table by question
Every material primary-nutrient difference on this page is numerically higher in A (1 of 1).
These answers describe concentration per 100 grams. “More” and “less” identify the arithmetic direction only; they do not decide which record is a better match or which food is better for a person.
Which reports fewer calories?
Record B
Record B reports 71 kcal, compared with 91 kcal in the other record—a difference of 20 kcal.
Which reports more protein?
Record A
Record A reports 4.9 g, compared with 4.2 g in the other record—a difference of 0.7 g.
Which reports more fiber?
Same reported value
Both records report 1.2 g of fiber per 100 g.
Which reports less sodium?
Record B
Record B reports 106 mg, compared with 146 mg in the other record—a difference of 40 mg.
What differs in the source descriptions
The exact names carry information the numbers cannot.
USDA assigns both records to “Lettuce and lettuce salads,” but the topic label is broad. Record A is “Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing.” Record B is “Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing.” Feast paired them because their contrast-neutral food identities are closely related (90% token overlap after controlled modifiers are set aside), not merely because they share a generic category.
No controlled preparation phrase is needed to explain this pairing. The close source names instead differ in narrow food or ingredient terms. Record A has the distinctive neutral terms shown in its exact name; Record B has egg. Read the full descriptions before selecting either profile.
Even a clean name contrast can carry hidden companions. A fried record may also include coating; a restaurant record can use a different recipe; a reduced-sodium description can differ in more than salt; and a source amount can reflect a different reporting convention. That is why this page reports the complete pair rather than treating one word as an intervention.
Portion context
A representative source amount is not a shared “serving.”
Record A uses USDA reference amount at 77 g. Record B uses USDA reference amount at 79 g. Those labels and gram weights come from their respective records. They are useful for scaling the chosen profile, but they are not recommendations and need not describe equal amounts.
The representative amounts do not cross Feast’s material portion-difference threshold of both 15 grams and 20%. They are still separate source measures, so the 100-gram table remains the appropriate place for an equal-weight comparison.
A cup, piece, slice, sandwich, fillet, or fluid ounce can have different gram weights across records. A matching label is not enough: check the listed grams. If accuracy matters more than convenience, weighing the food or using a current package label can be more specific than a generic survey-food measure.
Record A measures
- 1 cup77 g
- USDA reference amount77 g
Record B measures
- 1 garden salad236 g
- 1 side salad168 g
- 1 cup79 g
- USDA reference amount79 g
One shared household label
1 cup: 77 g in A vs 79 g in B
The household label matches, but the source gram weights differ. These values scale each record by its own listed grams; they are practical portion context, not an equal-mass comparison.
| Nutrient | A · 77 g | B · 79 g |
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 70 kcal | 56 kcal |
| Protein | 3.8 g | 3.3 g |
| Dietary fiber | 0.9 g | 0.9 g |
| Sodium | 112 mg | 84 mg |
USDA source formulation evidence
The listed inputs provide another way to audit the match.
FNDDS includes input-food rows behind each standardized survey-food record. Record A’s leading listed inputs include Mixed salad greens, raw, Cheese, cheddar, Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average, Carrots, mature, raw. Record B’s include Mixed salad greens, raw, Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average, Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiled, Celery, raw. Ingredient-code overlap is 67%, and normalized listed-input-weight variation is 24%.
Record A · 7 coded inputs
Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with…
- Mixed salad greens, rawIngredient code 75114000 · open source index43.1% of listed input weight
- Cheese, cheddarIngredient code 1009 · open source index17.4% of listed input weight
- Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round averageIngredient code 11529 · open source index11.1% of listed input weight
- Carrots, mature, rawIngredient code 11124 · open source index7.5% of listed input weight
- Celery, rawIngredient code 11143 · open source index7.4% of listed input weight
- Onions, rawIngredient code 11282 · open source index7.1% of listed input weight
- Cucumber, with peel, rawIngredient code 11205 · open source index6.4% of listed input weight
Record B · 8 coded inputs
Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots…
- Mixed salad greens, rawIngredient code 75114000 · open source index34.9% of listed input weight
- Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round averageIngredient code 11529 · open source index14.3% of listed input weight
- Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiledIngredient code 1129 · open source index10.8% of listed input weight
- Celery, rawIngredient code 11143 · open source index9.5% of listed input weight
- Cheese, cheddarIngredient code 1009 · open source index9% of listed input weight
- Carrots, mature, rawIngredient code 11124 · open source index8.7% of listed input weight
- Cucumber, with peel, rawIngredient code 11205 · open source index8.2% of listed input weight
- Radishes, rawIngredient code 11429 · open source index4.6% of listed input weight
6 shared coded inputs
The largest shared entries include Mixed salad greens, raw, Cheese, cheddar, Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average, Celery, raw, Carrots, mature, raw. Shared codes can still carry different listed weights.
1 A-only and 2 B-only coded inputs
A-only entries include Onions, raw. B-only entries include Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiled, Radishes, raw.
Important: repeated rows carrying the same ingredient code are combined before the shares and overlap are calculated. These weights belong to USDA’s source formulation: they are not a reconstructed plate, final cooked yield, visitor serving, ingredient declaration, or estimate of what is visible in a photo. USDA’s FNDDS documentation explains that these calculation recipes can represent multiple variants, may include retention or moisture adjustments, and are not product-label ingredient lists.
Choosing the closer record
Match context first; scale second.
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Read both names literally
Compare cooking method, coating, edible skin or peel, sauce, additions, venue, source form, and food subtype. For this pair, the full A and B descriptions above are the evidence—not shortened search labels.
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Use listed inputs as a check
If the name still leaves ambiguity, compare the leading and unique source inputs. They can reveal that two near names refer to meaningfully different standardized formulations, but they do not reconstruct your dish.
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Choose an amount for that record
After choosing A or B, use its own named measure and gram weight. Do not transfer a cup, slice, or “typical amount” from the other record as if the measures were interchangeable.
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Account for missing details
Brand, current restaurant recipe, cooking oil, drained weight, toppings, substitutions, and unfinished portions may not be captured. A label or weighed recipe can supersede a generic reference when it better matches the actual food.
Limits and responsible interpretation
This is a comparison of records, not a causal study.
The two records come from 2021–2023 FoodData Central Survey Foods data. The nutrient table faithfully compares their published values on the same weight basis. It does not measure two plates prepared at the same time, isolate one ingredient, or estimate the uncertainty around either value.
For this pair, the source names differ across narrow identity terms in the exact source names, while the listed formulations show 67% ingredient-code overlap and 24% normalized listed-weight variation. Moisture, ingredient proportions, preparation, and record construction can therefore move together. The page can describe the combined record difference; it cannot isolate the effect of one word.
A higher or lower number is not an overall verdict. Protein, fiber, sodium, energy, fat, micronutrients, preferences, allergies, budget, portion, and an individual’s goals answer different questions. Feast therefore reports directions and magnitudes without applying a universal “healthier” label.
This page is educational and does not diagnose a condition, prescribe a target, or replace advice from a qualified professional. For an allergy, medically directed diet, or strict ingredient limit, use verified ingredient information and guidance appropriate to that situation.
How this page qualified
A page is published only when the pair clears materiality and diversity gates.
Both records must occupy the same USDA survey-food topic and share a close food identity after a controlled vocabulary separates preparation, edible-part, source, claim, crust, and sauce wording. Exact contrast-neutral identities receive priority. Close ingredient or form substitutions can qualify when name overlap remains high and the numerical evidence is material.
For primary nutrients, Feast requires both an absolute and relative difference: at least 20 kcal and 12% for energy; 2 g and 18% for protein or fat; 5 g and 15% for carbohydrate; 1 g and 20% for fiber; 4 g and 20% for sugars; or 100 mg and 20% for sodium. A focused one-nutrient pair also needs a material representative-amount or formulation distinction. Rounding-only pairs are not published.
Unordered FDC IDs define a canonical pair, so reversing A and B cannot create another page. Each source record can appear twice at most, each USDA topic contributes no more than 40 pages, and closely repeated identity families are capped. Those rules produced a selective comparison library rather than every mathematical combination in the corpus.
Read the complete nutrition-page methodology for import, nutrient mapping, portion scaling, Daily Value, and uncertainty rules.
Decision support from the exact records on this page
Turn source data into a better next decision
These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 2 exact records behind Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing versus Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing. Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.
Equal-weight result
Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing is higher in calories per 100 g
Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing reports 91 kcal versus 71 kcal for Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing: a 20 kcal difference when both are normalized to 100 g.
Inspect the underlying evidenceCheck the weight before comparing serving totals
Source amounts span 77–79 g
Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing uses USDA source amount (77 g), while Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing uses USDA source amount (79 g). Use per 100 g for equal-weight composition; use the serving column only when those named source amounts answer your question.
Record identity is part of the estimate
Distinguish “Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing” from “Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing”
These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.
Inspect the underlying evidenceContextual knowledge graph
Follow the relationship that matches your question
For Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing versus Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.
Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing and Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Calories: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, calories runs from 71 kcal in Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing to 91 kcal in Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiledUSDA input 1129 appears in 1 of 2 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 34–34 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.
Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Onions, rawUSDA input 11282 appears in 1 of 2 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 11.5–11.5 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.
Follow this evidence path Test a nearby record choice Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing vs Lettuce, salad with egg, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressingLettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Calories: 71 versus 50 kcal per 100 g; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.
Follow this evidence path 2 context records in this source topic Lettuce and lettuce saladsLettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing and Lettuce, salad with egg, cheese, tomato, and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressing belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.
Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Lettuce, salad with cheese, tomato and/or carrots, with or without other vegetables, no dressingOpen the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2709825 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.
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