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Chicken/turkey salad calories per cup: 251–531 across all 9 named USDA examples

Across all 9 named USDA examples, a cup contains 251–531 calories. Each included example lists 226 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data.

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Estimated for 113 g

125calories

Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing

Protein
15 g
Carbs
7.1 g
Fat
4.3 g

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Compare all 9 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 9 exact records in this guide report 125–266 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 111–235 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 Chicken or turkey salad, begin by separating “Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing” from “Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing.” 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 chicken or turkey salad records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 9 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 salad, made with any type of fat free dressing 111 kcal
    111 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Chicken or turkey salad, made with light creamy dressing 128 kcal
    128 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Chicken or turkey salad, made with light mayonnaise 146 kcal
    146 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing 148 kcal
    148 kcal
  5. Maximum: Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise 235 kcal
    235 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 9 named USDA records in view: 9 direct matches. All sit within “Poultry mixed dishes.” 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 9 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken or turkey salad.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken or turkey salad, this page can compare 9 named records from FDC 2706809 through FDC 2706803. 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

A shared 113 g comparison anchor

Equal source weights make the selected Chicken or turkey salad serving totals easier to compare, but the eaten portion still has to be measured or estimated.

Composition

124 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “made with any type of fat free dressing”; the higher is “made with mayonnaise.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

0.5 g fiber gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “made with creamy dressing” (0.4 g) and “made with any type of fat free dressing” (0.9 g).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

These 9 records each use a 113 g serving. Their serving calories compare equal weights within this set. They do not define a calorie range for every chicken or turkey salad; match the preparation and adjust to your portion.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing; “higher” ends with Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every chicken or turkey salad meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Chicken or turkey salad, 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 salad nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 125 kcal 111 15 g 1 g 593 mg FDC 2706809 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with creamy dressing Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 212 kcal 188 15.6 g 0.5 g 594 mg FDC 2706805 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with Italian dressing Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 165 kcal 146 15.4 g 0.5 g 637 mg FDC 2706807 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with light creamy dressing Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 145 kcal 128 15.6 g 0.5 g 601 mg FDC 2706806 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with light Italian dressing Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 131 kcal 116 15.4 g 0.5 g 614 mg FDC 2706808 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with light mayonnaise Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 165 kcal 146 15.4 g 0.5 g 598 mg FDC 2706802 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with light mayonnaise-type salad dressing Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 165 kcal 146 15.4 g 0.5 g 598 mg FDC 2706804 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 266 kcal 235 15.7 g 0.5 g 547 mg FDC 2706799 ↗
Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing Direct name match 113 gUSDA reference amount 167 kcal 148 15.5 g 0.5 g 554 mg FDC 2706803 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

Every selected record uses a 113-gram source amount, so serving-weight differences do not explain the calorie spread inside this set. Their own source servings run from 125 calories for “made with any type of fat free dressing” to 266 for “made with mayonnaise.” At a fixed 100 grams, “made with any type of fat free dressing” is 111 calories and “made with mayonnaise” is 235—a fixed-weight separation of 124 calories. For Chicken or turkey salad, 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 “made with any type of fat free dressing”, “made with Italian dressing”, “made with light Italian dressing”, “made with light mayonnaise-type salad dressing”, and “made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes celery, raw, chicken, ns as to part, rotisserie, skin not eaten, and pickle relish, sweet; differentiating rows include salad dressing, mayonnaise, light, creamy dressing, made with sour cream and/or buttermilk and oil, reduced calorie, salad dressing, italian dressing, commercial, reduced fat, and salad dressing, italian dressing, commercial, regular. On this Chicken or turkey salad 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 salad” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing and Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.

  1. 01

    A shared source weight

    Every selected record uses 113 grams. Inside this set, serving-calorie differences therefore reflect the published composition rather than a change in source weight.

  2. 02

    The words that split the family

    Representative record-level distinctions include “made with any type of fat free dressing”, “made with Italian dressing”, “made with light Italian dressing”, “made with light mayonnaise-type salad dressing”, and “made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    Shared source rows include celery, raw and chicken, ns as to part, rotisserie, skin not eaten; rows that vary across the set include salad dressing, mayonnaise, light, creamy dressing, made with sour cream and/or buttermilk and oil, reduced calorie, and salad dressing, italian dressing, commercial, reduced fat. Presence is inspectable evidence, not proof of nutrient causation.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken or turkey salad 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 salad is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“made with any type of fat free dressing”, “made with light creamy dressing”, “made with light mayonnaise”, and “made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing”—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 salad 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 9 exact records behind Chicken or turkey salad 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 salad, made with mayonnaise is higher in total fat per 100 g

Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise reports 18.8 g versus 3.8 g for Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing: a 15 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

9 listed servings each weigh 113 g

The 9 records with a listed serving weight on this page each use 113 g. Their serving totals therefore compare equal weights, even if the household labels differ. Match the preparation and adjust the weight to the amount you eat.

Choose the record before reading the number

Chicken or turkey salad, made with creamy dressing and Chicken or turkey salad, made with light creamy dressing are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Light wording (No matching controlled term in the source name versus light wording) 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 Chicken or turkey salad 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 Chicken or turkey salad, made with creamy dressing vs Chicken or turkey salad, made with light creamy dressing

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

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Chicken or turkey salad, made with Italian dressing vs Chicken or turkey salad, made with light Italian dressing

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

Follow this evidence path 9 context records in this source topic Poultry mixed dishes

Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing and Chicken or turkey salad, made with creamy 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 A formulation detail that separates records Salad dressing, mayonnaise, light

USDA input 4641 appears in 2 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 120–120 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 Creamy dressing, made with sour cream and/or buttermilk and oil, reduced calorie

USDA input 42116 appears in 1 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 122.5–122.5 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 Put the observed spread in corpus context Calories: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calories runs from 111 kcal in Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing to 235 kcal in Chicken or turkey salad, made with mayonnaise, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0.4 g in Chicken or turkey salad, made with creamy dressing to 0.9 g in Chicken or turkey salad, made with any type of fat free dressing, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path