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Corn calories per cup: 109–202 across all 13 named USDA examples

Across all 13 named USDA examples, a cup contains 109–202 calories. Their listed weights span 165–170 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.

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Preparation and portion

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Estimated for 85 g

72calories

Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine

Protein
1.9 g
Carbs
11.8 g
Fat
2.9 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 55–101 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 66–119 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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Start with the description closest to what you ate

For Corn, begin by separating “Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine” from “Corn, frozen, cooked, no added fat.” 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 corn 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: Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat 66 kcal
    66 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine 85 kcal
    85 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Corn, canned, cooked with oil 91 kcal
    91 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Corn, fresh, cooked with butter or margarine 103 kcal
    103 kcal
  5. Maximum: Corn, cooked, from restaurant 119 kcal
    119 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. All sit within “Corn.” 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 13 records together under the exact grouping key “corn.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Corn, this page can compare 13 named records from FDC 2709922 through FDC 2709911. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.

Read the shared calculation, provenance, and uncertainty method →

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

83–85 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.0× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

53 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat”; the higher is “from restaurant.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

203 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil” (13 mg) and “canned, cooked with butter or margarine” (216 mg).

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 corn.

Important: “Lower” begins with Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat; “higher” ends with Corn, cooked, from restaurant, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every corn meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Corn, 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 Corn nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 72 kcal 85 1.9 g 1.6 g 184 mg FDC 2709922 ↗
Corn, canned, cooked with oil Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 77 kcal 91 1.9 g 1.6 g 169 mg FDC 2709921 ↗
Corn, canned, cooked, no added fat Direct name match 83 gUSDA reference amount 56 kcal 67 1.9 g 1.7 g 170 mg FDC 2709912 ↗
Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 72 kcal 85 1.7 g 1.5 g 26 mg FDC 2709927 ↗
Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 78 kcal 92 1.7 g 1.5 g 11 mg FDC 2709926 ↗
Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat Direct name match 83 gUSDA reference amount 55 kcal 66 1.7 g 1.5 g 11 mg FDC 2709924 ↗
Corn, cooked, from restaurant Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 101 kcal 119 2.6 g 1.6 g 180 mg FDC 2709909 ↗
Corn, fresh, cooked with butter or margarine Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 88 kcal 103 2.7 g 1.6 g 122 mg FDC 2709918 ↗
Corn, fresh, cooked with oil Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 93 kcal 109 2.7 g 1.6 g 108 mg FDC 2709917 ↗
Corn, fresh, cooked, no added fat Direct name match 83 gUSDA reference amount 71 kcal 86 2.7 g 1.7 g 109 mg FDC 2709910 ↗
Corn, frozen, cooked with butter or margarine Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 83 kcal 98 2.1 g 2 g 111 mg FDC 2709920 ↗
Corn, frozen, cooked with oil Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 89 kcal 105 2.1 g 2 g 96 mg FDC 2709919 ↗
Corn, frozen, cooked, no added fat Direct name match 83 gUSDA reference amount 67 kcal 81 2.1 g 2 g 97 mg FDC 2709911 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 83 to 85 grams—a 2-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 55 calories for “canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat” to 101 for “from restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat” is 66 calories and “from restaurant” is 119—a fixed-weight separation of 53 calories. For Corn, 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 “canned, cooked with butter or margarine”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine”, “cooked, from restaurant”, “fresh, cooked, no added fat”, and “frozen, cooked, no added fat”. The source formulations contain 8 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include salt, table, corn, sweet, yellow, raw, table fat, nfs, and vegetable oil, nfs. On this Corn 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 “Corn” cannot resolve the differences between Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine and Corn, frozen, cooked, no added fat. 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 83–85 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 “canned, cooked with butter or margarine”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine”, “cooked, from restaurant”, “fresh, cooked, no added fat”, and “frozen, cooked, no added fat”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    8 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 “Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Corn 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 corn is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“canned, cooked with butter or margarine”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil”, “fresh, cooked with oil”, and “frozen, cooked, no added fat”—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 Corn 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.

Explore this meal family

3 more-specific corn guides

Use a focused guide when its description matches your meal. Each one keeps its own exact source records and links back to this broader family.

Focused guide Corn fresh cooked Corn fresh cooked: compare 3 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations. Focused guide Corn frozen cooked Corn frozen cooked: compare 3 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations. Focused guide Corn, canned Corn, canned: compare 6 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations.

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 Corn 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

Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine is higher in sodium per 100 g

Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine reports 216 mg versus 13 mg for Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil: a 203 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Corn, fresh, cooked, no added fat is denser; Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine is higher in its source amount

Corn, fresh, cooked, no added fat reports 86 kcal per 100 g and 71 kcal in USDA source amount (83 g). Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine reports a lower 85 kcal per 100 g but a higher 72 kcal in USDA source amount (85 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat and Corn, cooked, from restaurant are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Added-fat wording (no added fat versus No matching controlled term in the source name) 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 Corn 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 Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat vs Corn, cooked, from restaurant

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

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Corn, canned, cooked, no added fat vs Corn, cooked, from restaurant

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

Follow this evidence path 13 context records in this source topic Corn

Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine and Corn, canned, cooked with oil 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 Salt, table

USDA input 2047 appears in 7 of 13 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.3–0.5 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 A formulation detail that separates records Corn, sweet, yellow, raw

USDA input 11167 appears in 4 of 13 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 100–100 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 Sodium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, sodium runs from 13 mg in Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil to 216 mg in Corn, canned, cooked with butter or margarine, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 2 mg in Corn, fresh, cooked with oil to 5 mg in Corn, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path