Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition
1 cheeseburger (115 g) of cheeseburger, fast food, 1 small patty has about 344 calories. Choose your preparation and adjust the amount below.
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Estimated for 1 cheeseburger · 115 g
344calories
Cheeseburger, from fast food, 1 small patty
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Choose the whole sandwich that matches your burger's size and patty count. The cheeseburger examples include a bun and cheese; fries, drinks, and separately added extras need their own entries.
A worked portion example
Illustrative calculation: 1 cheeseburger weighs 115 g using the linked record's portion weight. At 299 calories per 100 g, 115 × 299 ÷ 100 = about 344 calories and 18.9 g protein. This is the complete reference sandwich, not a beef-patty-only value or a combo-meal total.
Check the exact food and household measure →Start with patty count, then size and bun. The small fast-food example is a 115 g sandwich, while the double options describe two patties. Use current restaurant nutrition for a known menu item, because a generic burger does not identify its exact recipe or size.
The selected small fast-food example includes a bun, beef, cheese, and salt. Its listed ingredients do not include every possible sauce or topping. Record extra bacon, mayonnaise, or additional cheese when those are part of your order; count the meal's fries and drink separately.
If you ate half of an otherwise evenly assembled burger, half its sandwich weight is a usable starting estimate. If you left most of the bun or removed cheese, a simple fraction of the whole burger will not describe the remaining ingredients as closely. For a homemade burger, you can enter the components you used.
Editorial update: . Portion examples are calculations from the linked USDA records.
“One cheeseburger” is not a stable serving unit. In the selected FNDDS records, item weight changes with slider size, patty size, patty count, and bun, making the complete description more informative than the name alone.
Across 6 of 10 named USDA examples, a cheeseburger sandwich contains 250–628 calories. Their listed weights span 100–210 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g. The remaining 4 specifically named examples do not list that exact household measure.
Match my meal
For Cheeseburger, begin by separating “Cheeseburger slider, from fast food” from “Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 large patties.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.
Showing the first 6 of 10 linked records.
Equal-weight view
Five rank landmarks are shown from all 10 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.
Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories
What this page compares
This guide keeps 10 named USDA records in view: 10 direct matches. All sit within “Burgers.” The exact descriptions remain the unit of comparison; the familiar heading is only the doorway into the evidence.
For Cheeseburger, this page can compare 10 named records from FDC 2706887 through FDC 2706910. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.
Read the shared calculation, provenance, and uncertainty method →
Editor’s decision brief
Carry the denominator, exact identity, and strongest observed contrast into every number below.
Portion
The largest source amount is 5.5× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.
Composition
The lower endpoint is “from school cafeteria”; the higher is “2 medium patties.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.
Discriminator
Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “2 large patties” (0.3 g) and “from school cafeteria” (2.7 g).
Observed source examples
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 cheeseburger.
179kcal
60 g source amount · 298 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record480kcal
165 g source amount · 291 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record987kcal
330 g source amount · 299 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact recordImportant: “Lower” begins with Cheeseburger slider, from fast food; “higher” ends with Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 large patties, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every cheeseburger meal.
Full comparison
For Cheeseburger, 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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| Exact source record | Match | Source amount | Calories | kcal / 100 g | Protein | Fiber | Sodium | USDA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheeseburger slider, from fast food | Direct name match | 60 gUSDA reference amount | 179 kcal | 298 | 9.7 g | 0.5 g | 303 mg | FDC 2706887 ↗ |
| Cheeseburger, from school cafeteria | Direct name match | 100 gUSDA reference amount | 250 kcal | 250 | 18.7 g | 2.7 g | 313 mg | FDC 2706893 ↗ |
| Cheeseburger, from fast food, 1 small patty | Direct name match | 115 gUSDA reference amount | 344 kcal | 299 | 18.9 g | 0.9 g | 587 mg | FDC 2706889 ↗ |
| Cheeseburger, on wheat bun, 1 small patty | Direct name match | 135 gUSDA reference amount | 394 kcal | 292 | 24.6 g | 2.7 g | 593 mg | FDC 2706896 ↗ |
| Cheeseburger, from fast food, 1 medium patty | Direct name match | 165 gUSDA reference amount | 488 kcal | 296 | 29.5 g | 1 g | 723 mg | FDC 2706897 ↗ |
| Cheeseburger, on wheat bun, 1 medium patty | Direct name match | 165 gUSDA reference amount | 480 kcal | 291 | 30.5 g | 3.1 g | 690 mg | FDC 2706902 ↗ |
| Cheeseburger, from fast food, 1 large patty | Direct name match | 210 gUSDA reference amount | 628 kcal | 299 | 39.3 g | 1.1 g | 951 mg | FDC 2706909 ↗ |
| Double cheeseburger, on wheat bun, 2 small patties | Direct name match | 205 gUSDA reference amount | 599 kcal | 292 | 40.4 g | 2.9 g | 818 mg | FDC 2706906 ↗ |
| Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 medium patties | Direct name match | 270 gUSDA reference amount | 810 kcal | 300 | 52.9 g | 1.1 g | 1,188 mg | FDC 2706907 ↗ |
| Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 large patties | Direct name match | 330 gUSDA reference amount | 987 kcal | 299 | 66.7 g | 1 g | 1,350 mg | FDC 2706910 ↗ |
Portion analysis
The listed source amounts run from 60 to 330 grams—a 270-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 179 calories for “from fast food” to 987 for “2 large patties.” At a fixed 100 grams, “from school cafeteria” is 250 calories and “2 medium patties” is 300—a fixed-weight separation of 50 calories. For Cheeseburger, 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 published descriptions distinguish forms such as “from fast food”, “from fast food, 1 small patty”, “on wheat bun, 1 medium patty”, “on wheat bun, 2 small patties”, and “on white bun, 2 large patties”. The source formulations contain 7 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include beef, ground, patties, frozen, cooked, broiled, cheese as ingredient in sandwiches, salt, table, and rolls, hamburger or hotdog, plain. On this Cheeseburger 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
The family label “Cheeseburger” cannot resolve the differences between Cheeseburger slider, from fast food and Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 large patties. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.
Single and double burgers have distinct source records and materially different whole-item weights.
Small, medium, and large are not interchangeable labels within FNDDS.
Bun type and the amount of cheese add variation beyond the patty itself.
Sauces, bacon, and additional toppings may be hidden by a generic cheeseburger name.
Record matching
Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that cheeseburger is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“from fast food”, “on wheat bun, 1 small patty”, “from fast food, 1 large patty”, and “on white bun, 2 large patties”—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.
Explore this meal family
Use a focused guide when its description matches your meal. Each one keeps its own exact source records and links back to this broader family.
Decision support from the exact records on this page
These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 10 exact records behind Cheeseburger 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
Cheeseburger, from school cafeteria reports 2.7 g versus 0.3 g for Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 large patties: a 2.4 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.
Inspect the underlying evidenceThe denominator changes the answer
Cheeseburger slider, from fast food reports 298 kcal per 100 g and 179 kcal in USDA source amount (60 g). Double cheeseburger, on wheat bun, 2 small patties reports a lower 292 kcal per 100 g but a higher 599 kcal in USDA source amount (205 g).
Record identity is part of the estimate
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
For Cheeseburger source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.
Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 large patties and Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 medium patties are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.
Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Double cheeseburger on wheat bun 2Double cheeseburger, on wheat bun, 2 small patties is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.
Follow this evidence path 10 context records in this source topic BurgersCheeseburger slider, from fast food and Cheeseburger, from school cafeteria 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 Beef, ground, patties, frozen, cooked, broiledUSDA input 13317 appears in 9 of 10 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 20–230 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 Cheese as ingredient in sandwichesUSDA input 99991400 appears in 9 of 10 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–42 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 Dietary fiber: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0.3 g in Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 large patties to 2.7 g in Cheeseburger, from school cafeteria, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Vitamin D: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, vitamin D runs from 0 µg in Cheeseburger, from school cafeteria to 0.7 µg in Double cheeseburger, on white bun, 2 medium patties, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path