Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition

Chicken/turkey calories per cup: 110–364 across 40 of 43 named USDA examples

Across 40 of 43 named USDA examples, a cup contains 110–364 calories. Their listed weights span 90–252 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g. The remaining 3 specifically named examples do not list that exact household measure.

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Estimated for 1 salad · 314 g

361calories

Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing

Protein
19.8 g
Carbs
22.2 g
Fat
21.5 g

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Compare all 43 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 43 exact records in this guide report 209–715 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 115–165 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, begin by separating “Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing” 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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What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 43 named USDA records in view: 43 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 43 records together under the exact grouping key “chicken or turkey.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Chicken or turkey, this page can compare 43 named records from FDC 2706819 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

162–531 g before composition

The largest source amount is 3.3× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

50 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “caesar garden salad; lettuce; tomatoes”; the higher is “stuffing, …, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

5.1 g protein gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “potatoes, corn, and cheese, with gravy” (4.5 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.

Important: “Lower” begins with Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no 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 meal.

Full comparison

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For Chicken or turkey, 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 nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing Direct name match 314 gUSDA reference amount 361 kcal 115 19.8 g 3.8 g 776 mg FDC 2706819 ↗
Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, garden salad with bacon and cheese, chicken and/or turkey, bacon, cheese, lettuce and/or greens, tomato and/or carrots, other vegetables, no dressing Direct name match 324 gUSDA reference amount 395 kcal 122 22 g 3.9 g 829 mg FDC 2706813 ↗
Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, garden salad with cheese, chicken and/or turkey, cheese, lettuce and/or greens, tomato and/or carrots, other vegetables, no dressing Direct name match 370 gUSDA reference amount 455 kcal 123 24.1 g 4.8 g 803 mg FDC 2706815 ↗
Chicken or turkey, dumplings, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; gravy Direct name match 249 gUSDA reference amount 319 kcal 128 14.1 g 2 g 847 mg FDC 2706709 ↗
Chicken or turkey, dumplings, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark green leafy; gravy Direct name match 249 gUSDA reference amount 316 kcal 127 13.9 g 2.2 g 857 mg FDC 2706708 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce Direct name match 305 gUSDA reference amount 454 kcal 149 27.2 g 3.4 g 1,037 mg FDC 2706689 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 364 kcal 130 17.2 g 2.8 g 963 mg FDC 2706682 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 202 gUSDA reference amount 305 kcal 151 16.2 g 2.8 g 711 mg FDC 2706680 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 375 kcal 134 17.3 g 3.9 g 958 mg FDC 2706686 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 370 kcal 132 17.1 g 3.1 g 966 mg FDC 2706684 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce Direct name match 305 gUSDA reference amount 442 kcal 145 27.1 g 3.4 g 1,055 mg FDC 2706688 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 358 kcal 128 17 g 3.4 g 946 mg FDC 2706683 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 361 kcal 129 17 g 3.1 g 938 mg FDC 2706681 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 202 gUSDA reference amount 297 kcal 147 16.1 g 3 g 709 mg FDC 2706679 ↗
Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 364 kcal 130 17.2 g 4.2 g 974 mg FDC 2706685 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cheese sauce Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 335 kcal 133 19.1 g 3.3 g 849 mg FDC 2706674 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 318 kcal 126 12.2 g 3.3 g 852 mg FDC 2706672 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 320 kcal 127 12 g 3.3 g 847 mg FDC 2706670 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 162 gUSDA reference amount 214 kcal 132 10.1 g 2.8 g 577 mg FDC 2706668 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 323 kcal 128 12.2 g 4 g 844 mg FDC 2706676 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 325 kcal 129 19 g 3.5 g 864 mg FDC 2706673 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 318 kcal 126 12.1 g 3.5 g 862 mg FDC 2706671 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 310 kcal 123 11.9 g 3.5 g 862 mg FDC 2706669 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce Direct name match 162 gUSDA reference amount 209 kcal 129 10 g 2.9 g 559 mg FDC 2706667 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 312 kcal 124 12.1 g 4.3 g 859 mg FDC 2706675 ↗
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, corn, and cheese, with gravy Direct name match 531 gUSDA reference amount 653 kcal 123 23.9 g 5.8 g 1,874 mg FDC 2706666 ↗
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 ↗
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 531 grams—a 369-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 209 calories for “potatoes, …, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; no sauce” to 715 for “rice, corn, and cheese, with gravy.” At a fixed 100 grams, “caesar garden salad; lettuce; tomatoes” is 115 calories and “stuffing, …, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce” is 165—a fixed-weight separation of 50 calories. For Chicken or turkey, 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 “breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing”, “noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce”, “potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce”, “rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce”, and “stuffing, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; no sauce”. The source formulations contain 42 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include chicken, ns as to part, rotisserie, skin not eaten, salt, table, vegetable oil, nfs, and corn, sweet, yellow, frozen, kernels cut off cob, boiled, drained, without salt. On this Chicken or turkey 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” cannot resolve the differences between Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing 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 162–531 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 “breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing”, “noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce”, “potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cream sauce, white sauce, or mushroom sauce”, “rice, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese 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

    42 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, …, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Chicken or turkey 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 is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing”, “noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”, “rice, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy”, 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 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 43 exact records behind Chicken or turkey 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, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce is higher in calcium per 100 g

Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce reports 99 mg versus 12 mg for Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy: a 87 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Chicken or turkey, dumplings, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; gravy is denser; Chicken or turkey, potatoes, corn, and cheese, with gravy is higher in its source amount

Chicken or turkey, dumplings, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark green leafy; gravy reports 128 kcal per 100 g and 319 kcal in USDA source amount (249 g). Chicken or turkey, potatoes, corn, and cheese, with gravy reports a lower 123 kcal per 100 g but a higher 653 kcal in USDA source amount (531 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 source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Best next guide for this exact record Chicken Caesar salad

Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing and Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, garden salad with cheese, chicken and/or turkey, cheese, lettuce and/or greens, tomato and/or carrots, other vegetables, no dressing are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

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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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41 context records in this source topic Poultry mixed dishes

Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, caesar garden salad, chicken and/or turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, no dressing and Chicken or turkey, breaded, fried, garden salad with bacon and cheese, chicken and/or turkey, bacon, cheese, lettuce and/or greens, tomato and/or carrots, other vegetables, no 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.

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A formulation detail that separates records Beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt

USDA input 11061 appears in 18 of 43 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 18 of 43 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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Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 12 mg in Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy to 99 mg in Chicken or turkey, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; cheese sauce, all per 100 g.

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