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Chicken/turkey with carrots/greens without potatoes calories per cup: 191–296 across all 5 named USDA examples

Across all 5 named USDA examples, a cup contains 191–296 calories. Their listed weights span 162–252 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 1 cup · 249 g

296calories

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce

Protein
24.5 g
Carbs
9.7 g
Fat
18 g

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Compare all 5 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 5 exact records in this guide report 155–296 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 95–119 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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For Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes, begin by separating “Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce” from “Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce.” 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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How chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes records compare at 100 grams

All 5 cited records are shown at the same 100-gram weight. The source servings may differ.

  1. 95 kcal
  2. 112 kcal
  3. 113 kcal
  4. 118 kcal
  5. 119 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 5 named USDA records in view: 5 direct matches. They span 2 source categories, including Poultry mixed dishes and Stir-fry and soy-based sauce mixtures. 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 5 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes, this page can compare 5 named records from FDC 2706820 through FDC 2706792. 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

162–252 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.6× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

24 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “soy-based sauce”; the higher is “cheese sauce.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

0.7 g fiber gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “cheese sauce” (0.9 g) and “tomato-based sauce” (1.6 g).

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 chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, soy-based sauce; “higher” ends with Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes, 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 Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce Direct name match 249 gUSDA reference amount 296 kcal 119 24.5 g 2.2 g 879 mg FDC 2706820 ↗
Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 282 kcal 112 17.9 g 2.5 g 925 mg FDC 2706785 ↗
Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, no sauce Direct name match 162 gUSDA reference amount 191 kcal 118 15.6 g 2.3 g 625 mg FDC 2706781 ↗
Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, soy-based sauce Direct name match 163 gUSDA reference amount 155 kcal 95 13.3 g 1.5 g 673 mg FDC 2706790 ↗
Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce Direct name match 249 gUSDA reference amount 281 kcal 113 18 g 4 g 909 mg FDC 2706792 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 162 to 252 grams—a 90-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 155 calories for “soy-based sauce” to 296 for “cheese sauce.” At a fixed 100 grams, “soy-based sauce” is 95 calories and “cheese sauce” is 119—a fixed-weight separation of 24 calories. For Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes, 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 “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, no sauce”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, soy-based sauce”, and “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce”. The source formulations contain 10 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, chicken, ns as to part, rotisserie, skin not eaten, and salt, table. On this Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes 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 “Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce and Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce. 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 162–252 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 “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, no sauce”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, soy-based sauce”, and “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    10 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 “Chicken or turkey and vegetables including, … cheese sauce” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes 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 chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy”, “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, soy-based sauce”, and “broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce”—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 Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes 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 5 exact records behind Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes 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

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce is higher in calcium per 100 g

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce reports 135 mg versus 19 mg for Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy: a 116 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, no sauce is denser; Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy is higher in its source amount

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, no sauce reports 118 kcal per 100 g and 191 kcal in USDA source amount (162 g). Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy reports a lower 112 kcal per 100 g but a higher 282 kcal in USDA source amount (252 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce” from “Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce”

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 evidence

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Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy vegetables without potatoes source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

A formulation detail that separates records Broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

USDA input 11093 appears in 4 of 5 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–10 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

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A formulation detail that separates records Carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

USDA input 11131 appears in 4 of 5 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–10 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

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4 context records in this source topic Poultry mixed dishes

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce and Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy 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.

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Test a nearby record choice Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce vs Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Sauce wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus no sauce; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

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Test a nearby record choice Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce vs Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Sauce wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus no sauce; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

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Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 19 mg in Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, gravy to 135 mg in Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, cheese sauce, all per 100 g.

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1 context record in this source topic Stir-fry and soy-based sauce mixtures

Chicken or turkey and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no potatoes, soy-based sauce belongs 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.

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