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Chicken/turkey, rice calories per cup: 243–364 across 12 of 13 named USDA examples

Across 12 of 13 named USDA examples, a cup contains 243–364 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. The remaining 1 specifically named example does not list that exact household measure.

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Preparation and portion

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Estimated for 311 g

454calories

Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce

Protein
25.2 g
Carbs
51.9 g
Fat
16 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 13 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 13 exact records in this guide report 284–715 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 130–151 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, rice, begin by separating “Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce” from “Chicken or turkey, rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy.” 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 13 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How chicken or turkey, rice records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 13 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: Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce 130 kcal
    130 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce 131 kcal
    131 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce 133 kcal
    133 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce 146 kcal
    146 kcal
  5. Maximum: Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce 151 kcal
    151 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 13 named USDA records in view: 13 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 two description segments” placed these 13 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken or turkey rice.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken or turkey, rice, this page can compare 13 named records from FDC 2706700 through FDC 2706694. 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

202–480 g before composition

The largest source amount is 2.4× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

21 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”; the higher is “and dark-green leafy; no sauce.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

4.4 g protein gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “and/or dark-green leafy; gravy” (5.2 g) and “and dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce” (9.6 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, rice.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce; “higher” ends with Chicken or turkey, rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every chicken or turkey, rice meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Chicken or turkey, rice, 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, rice nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce Direct name match 311 gUSDA reference amount 454 kcal 146 25.2 g 2.2 g 1,051 mg FDC 2706700 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce Direct name match 315 gUSDA reference amount 413 kcal 131 16.7 g 2.5 g 1,077 mg FDC 2706698 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 315 gUSDA reference amount 425 kcal 135 16.5 g 2.2 g 1,068 mg FDC 2706693 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 202 gUSDA reference amount 305 kcal 151 13.8 g 1.8 g 719 mg FDC 2706691 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce Direct name match 217 gUSDA reference amount 289 kcal 133 20.9 g 2 g 662 mg FDC 2706696 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 311 gUSDA reference amount 414 kcal 133 16.6 g 3.1 g 1,054 mg FDC 2706702 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce Direct name match 311 gUSDA reference amount 442 kcal 142 25 g 2.5 g 1,070 mg FDC 2706699 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce Direct name match 315 gUSDA reference amount 413 kcal 131 16.6 g 2.5 g 1,090 mg FDC 2706697 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 315 gUSDA reference amount 416 kcal 132 16.4 g 2.5 g 1,084 mg FDC 2706692 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 202 gUSDA reference amount 303 kcal 150 13.7 g 2 g 697 mg FDC 2706690 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce Direct name match 217 gUSDA reference amount 284 kcal 131 20.3 g 2.4 g 666 mg FDC 2706695 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 311 gUSDA reference amount 404 kcal 130 16.5 g 3.4 g 1,073 mg FDC 2706701 ↗
Chicken or turkey, rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy Direct name match 480 gUSDA reference amount 715 kcal 149 27 g 3.4 g 2,035 mg FDC 2706694 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 202 to 480 grams—a 278-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 284 calories for “and/or dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce” to 715 for “corn; and cheese; with gravy.” At a fixed 100 grams, “and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce” is 130 calories and “and dark-green leafy; no sauce” is 151—a fixed-weight separation of 21 calories. For Chicken or turkey, rice, 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 “rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce”, “rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce”, “rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce”, “rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce”, and “rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy”. The source formulations contain 27 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include chicken, ns as to part, rotisserie, skin not eaten, rice, white, long-grain, regular, enriched, cooked, salt, table, and vegetable oil, nfs. On this Chicken or turkey, rice 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, rice” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce and Chicken or turkey, rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy. 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 202–480 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 “rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce”, “rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce”, “rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce”, “rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce”, and “rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    27 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 dark-green leafy; cheese sauce” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken or turkey, rice 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, rice is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce”, “rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce”, “rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”, and “rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy”—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, rice 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 13 exact records behind Chicken or turkey, rice 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, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce is higher in calcium per 100 g

Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce reports 98 mg versus 13 mg for Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy: a 85 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce is denser; Chicken or turkey, rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy is higher in its source amount

Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce reports 151 kcal per 100 g and 305 kcal in USDA source amount (202 g). Chicken or turkey, rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy reports a lower 149 kcal per 100 g but a higher 715 kcal in USDA source amount (480 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce” from “Chicken or turkey, rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy”

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

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

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

11 context records in this source topic Poultry mixed dishes

Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce and Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce 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 Beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt

USDA input 11061 appears in 5 of 13 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.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

USDA input 11093 appears in 5 of 13 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.

Follow this evidence path Test a nearby record choice Chicken or turkey and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no potatoes, tomato-based sauce vs Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce

Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no 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.

Follow this evidence path 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, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no 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.

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

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 13 mg in Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy to 98 mg in Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path 2 context records in this source topic Stir-fry and soy-based sauce mixtures

Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce and Chicken or turkey, rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; soy-based sauce 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