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Chicken/turkey stuffing and vegetables calories per cup: 258–320 across all 4 named USDA examples

Across all 4 named USDA examples, a cup contains 258–320 calories. Their listed weights span 162–244 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 · 244 g

312calories

Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy

Protein
12.7 g
Carbs
28.8 g
Fat
16.6 g

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The 4 exact records in this guide report 258–320 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 128–165 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 stuffing and vegetables, begin by separating “Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy” from “Chicken or turkey,stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no 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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Equal-weight view

How chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables records compare at 100 grams

All 4 cited records are shown at the same 100-gram weight. The source servings may differ.

  1. 128 kcal
  2. 131 kcal
  3. 159 kcal
  4. 165 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 4 named USDA records in view: 4 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 two description segments” placed these 4 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken or turkey stuffing.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables, this page can compare 4 named records from FDC 2706707 through FDC 2706705. 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

162–244 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.5× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

37 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

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

Discriminator

2.0 g protein gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “and dark-green leafy; gravy” (5.2 g) and “and dark green leafy; no sauce” (7.2 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 stuffing and vegetables.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce; “higher” ends with Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables meal.

Full comparison

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For Chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables, 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 stuffing and vegetables nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 244 gUSDA reference amount 312 kcal 128 12.7 g 2 g 866 mg FDC 2706707 ↗
Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 244 gUSDA reference amount 320 kcal 131 13.3 g 2.4 g 927 mg FDC 2706706 ↗
Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 162 gUSDA reference amount 258 kcal 159 11.5 g 2.1 g 598 mg FDC 2706704 ↗
Chicken or turkey,stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 162 gUSDA reference amount 267 kcal 165 11.6 g 1.9 g 585 mg FDC 2706705 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 162 to 244 grams—a 82-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 258 calories for “and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce” to 320 for “and/or dark-green leafy; gravy.” At a fixed 100 grams, “and dark-green leafy; gravy” is 128 calories and “and dark green leafy; no sauce” is 165—a fixed-weight separation of 37 calories. For Chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables, 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 “stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy”, “stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”, “stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce”, and “stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes bread, stuffing, dry mix, prepared and chicken, ns as to part, rotisserie, skin not eaten; differentiating rows include beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt, broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, and corn, sweet, yellow, frozen, kernels cut off cob, boiled, drained, without salt. On this Chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables 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 stuffing and vegetables” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy and Chicken or turkey,stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no 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 162–244 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 “stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy”, “stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”, “stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce”, and “stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    Shared source rows include bread, stuffing, dry mix, prepared and chicken, ns as to part, rotisserie, skin not eaten; rows that vary across the set include beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt, broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, and carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt. Presence is inspectable evidence, not proof of nutrient causation.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Chicken or turkey, …, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables 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 stuffing and vegetables is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy”, “stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”, “stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce”, and “stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no 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 stuffing and vegetables 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 4 exact records behind Chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables 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, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce is higher in dietary fiber per 100 g

Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce reports 1.3 g versus 0.8 g for Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy: a 0.5 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

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

Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce reports 159 kcal per 100 g and 258 kcal in USDA source amount (162 g). Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy reports a lower 131 kcal per 100 g but a higher 320 kcal in USDA source amount (244 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy and Chicken or turkey,stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Sauce wording (No matching controlled term in the source name versus no sauce) 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.

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Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Chicken or turkey stuffing and vegetables 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, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy vs Chicken or turkey,stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. 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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Compare two records on this page Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy vs Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. 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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A formulation detail that separates records Beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt

USDA input 11061 appears in 2 of 4 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 Broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

USDA input 11093 appears in 2 of 4 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, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy and Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; 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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Inspect an exact record Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706707 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

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Put the observed spread in corpus context Dietary fiber: density and serving context

In this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0.8 g in Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy to 1.3 g in Chicken or turkey, stuffing, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce, all per 100 g.

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