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Black beans calories per cup: 236–520 across all 6 named USDA examples

Across all 6 named USDA examples, a cup contains 236–520 calories. Their listed weights span 180–260 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.

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Estimated for 92 g

164calories

Black beans, from canned, fat added

Protein
7.9 g
Carbs
21.5 g
Fat
5.4 g

These values scale the selected reference food by weight. Ingredients, preparation, and portion size can change your meal’s estimate.

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Compare all 6 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 6 exact records in this guide report 118–260 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 131–200 calories per 100 grams. Those are observations from named database records—not a universal range or an estimate of an unseen plate.

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Start with the description closest to what you ate

For Black beans, begin by separating “Black beans, from canned, fat added” from “Black beans, from fast food / restaurant.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.

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Equal-weight view

How black beans records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 6 cited records: minimum, 25th-ranked, median-ranked, 75th-ranked, and maximum. Weight is held at 100 grams; source-serving weights are listed in the table.

  1. Minimum: Black beans, from dried, no added fat 131 kcal
    131 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Black beans, from canned, no added fat 134 kcal
    134 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Black beans, from canned, fat added 178 kcal
    178 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Black beans, from canned, reduced sodium 178 kcal
    178 kcal
  5. Maximum: Black beans, from fast food / restaurant 200 kcal
    200 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 6 named USDA records in view: 6 direct matches. All sit within “Beans, peas, legumes.” The exact descriptions remain the unit of comparison; the familiar heading is only the doorway into the evidence.

Why these records appear together: The deterministic grouping rule “normalized first description segment” placed these 6 records together under the exact grouping key “black beans.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Black beans, this page can compare 6 named records from FDC 2707362 through FDC 2707365. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.

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Editor’s decision brief

The three facts to carry into the table

Carry the denominator, exact identity, and strongest observed contrast into every number below.

Portion

90–130 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.4× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

69 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “from dried, no added fat”; the higher is “from fast food / restaurant.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

155 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “reduced sodium” (195 mg) and “from fast food / restaurant” (350 mg).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

The cards are ordered by calories in each record's listed serving. Serving weights differ, so use per-100-gram values to compare composition. These selected records do not define a calorie range for every black beans.

Important: “Lower” begins with Black beans, from dried, no added fat; “higher” ends with Black beans, from fast food / restaurant, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every black beans meal.

Full comparison

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For Black beans, serving columns preserve each record’s own listed amount, while calories per 100 g hold weight constant. A dash means the cited record does not supply that field; it does not mean the nutrient is absent.

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USDA records selected for the Black beans nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Black beans, from canned, fat added Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 164 kcal 178 7.9 g 9 g 308 mg FDC 2707362 ↗
Black beans, from canned, no added fat Direct name match 90 gUSDA reference amount 121 kcal 134 8 g 9.1 g 313 mg FDC 2707363 ↗
Black beans, from canned, reduced sodium Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 164 kcal 178 7.9 g 9 g 179 mg FDC 2707364 ↗
Black beans, from dried, fat added Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 167 kcal 181 7.6 g 7.5 g 200 mg FDC 2707360 ↗
Black beans, from dried, no added fat Direct name match 90 gUSDA reference amount 118 kcal 131 7.9 g 7.7 g 209 mg FDC 2707361 ↗
Black beans, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 130 gUSDA reference amount 260 kcal 200 10.4 g 10.1 g 455 mg FDC 2707365 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 90 to 130 grams—a 40-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 118 calories for “from dried, no added fat” to 260 for “from fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “from dried, no added fat” is 131 calories and “from fast food / restaurant” is 200—a fixed-weight separation of 69 calories. For Black beans, the serving view answers “how much is in the database portion?”; the 100-gram view answers “how concentrated is the matched record?” Neither reveals how many grams were actually eaten.

The scaling rule: multiply a per-100-gram value by eaten grams ÷ 100. The arithmetic is exact; the result is only as defensible as the record match and portion estimate.

Preparation analysis

The long description carries the evidence

The published descriptions distinguish forms such as “from canned, fat added”, “from canned, no added fat”, “from dried, fat added”, “from dried, no added fat”, and “from fast food / restaurant”. The source formulations contain 5 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include vegetable oil, nfs, beans, black, mature seeds, canned, low sodium, beans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt, and salt, table. On this Black beans page, those rows make the records inspectable, but they are not a controlled experiment: they cannot tell us that one named input, by itself, caused a nutrient difference.

Database precision is not meal certainty. Retain the exact description beside the number so later corrections remain possible.

What changes the comparison

Four drivers worth checking before choosing a record

The family label “Black beans” cannot resolve the differences between Black beans, from canned, fat added and Black beans, from fast food / restaurant. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.

  1. 01

    Source weight before serving calories

    The source amounts span 90–130 grams. Compare per 100 grams before reading a serving-calorie gap as a composition gap.

  2. 02

    The words that split the family

    Representative record-level distinctions include “from canned, fat added”, “from canned, no added fat”, “from dried, fat added”, “from dried, no added fat”, and “from fast food / restaurant”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    5 source-input codes appear across the selected records. Their presence and listed weights describe USDA formulations, not finished plated proportions.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Black beans, from canned, fat added” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Black beans unknowns for correction instead of converting them into false precision.

Record matching

Match identity first; scale quantity second

Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that black beans is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“from canned, fat added”, “from canned, reduced sodium”, “from dried, fat added”, and “from fast food / restaurant”—before comparing gram weight. If a package, menu, or known recipe provides a closer first-party description, prefer it and keep this USDA record as a transparent fallback.

A practical matching checklist

  1. Read the complete Black beans source description, including preparation and additions.
  2. Compare the listed source weight with the amount actually eaten.
  3. Prefer a current package or restaurant source when a specific branded item is known.
  4. Record toppings, sauces, cooking fat, sides, and substitutions that the selected description does not name.

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 6 exact records behind Black beans source-record guide. Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Black beans, from fast food / restaurant is higher in total fat per 100 g

Black beans, from fast food / restaurant reports 9.5 g versus 0.4 g for Black beans, from canned, no added fat: a 9.1 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Black beans, from canned, fat added is denser; Black beans, from fast food / restaurant is higher in its source amount

Black beans, from canned, fat added reports 8.5 g per 100 g and 7.9 g in USDA source amount (92 g). Black beans, from fast food / restaurant reports a lower 8 g per 100 g but a higher 10.4 g in USDA source amount (130 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Black beans, from canned, no added fat and Black beans, from fast food / restaurant are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Added-fat wording (no added fat versus No matching controlled term in the source name) the explicit record-description contrast. It does not show that the wording difference caused a nutrient difference. Pick the description that matches the food in front of you rather than averaging away the distinction.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Black beans source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Compare two records on this page Black beans, from canned, no added fat vs Black beans, from fast food / restaurant

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Added-fat wording: no added fat versus No matching controlled term in the source name; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Black beans, from canned, reduced sodium vs Black beans, from fast food / restaurant

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Source form: canned versus No matching controlled term in the source name; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 6 context records in this source topic Beans, peas, legumes

Black beans, from canned, fat added and Black beans, from canned, no added fat 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 A formulation detail that separates records Vegetable oil, NFS

USDA input 82101000 appears in 4 of 6 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 7–10 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 Beans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt

USDA input 16015 appears in 3 of 6 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 100–100 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 Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 25 mg in Black beans, from dried, fat added to 51 mg in Black beans, from canned, no added fat, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Sodium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, sodium runs from 195 mg in Black beans, from canned, reduced sodium to 350 mg in Black beans, from fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path