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Fish, salmon calories per cup: 158–414 across all 8 named USDA examples

Across all 8 named USDA examples, a cup contains 158–414 calories. Each included example lists 135 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data.

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Preparation and portion

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Estimated for 1 small/regular fillet · 140 g

384calories

Fish, salmon, baked or broiled

Protein
35.6 g
Carbs
0 g
Fat
25.8 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 8 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 8 exact records in this guide report 99–430 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 117–307 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 Fish, salmon, begin by separating “Fish, salmon, baked or broiled” from “Fish, salmon, steamed.” 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 8 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How fish, salmon records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 8 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: Fish, salmon, smoked 117 kcal
    117 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Fish, salmon, canned 136 kcal
    136 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Fish, salmon, steamed 237 kcal
    237 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Fish, salmon, baked or broiled 274 kcal
    274 kcal
  5. Maximum: Fish, salmon, fried 307 kcal
    307 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 8 named USDA records in view: 8 direct matches. All sit within “Fish.” 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 8 records together under the exact grouping key “fish salmon.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Fish, salmon, this page can compare 8 named records from FDC 2706286 through FDC 2706290. 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

85–140 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.6× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

190 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “smoked”; the higher is “fried.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

609 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “raw” (63 mg) and “smoked” (672 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 fish, salmon.

Important: “Lower” begins with Fish, salmon, smoked; “higher” ends with Fish, salmon, fried, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every fish, salmon meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Fish, salmon, 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 Fish, salmon nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Fish, salmon, baked or broiled Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 384 kcal 274 35.6 g 0 g 412 mg FDC 2706286 ↗
Fish, salmon, baked or broiled, coated Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 388 kcal 277 31.8 g 0.4 g 461 mg FDC 2706288 ↗
Fish, salmon, canned Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 116 kcal 136 20.9 g 0 g 321 mg FDC 2706291 ↗
Fish, salmon, fried Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 430 kcal 307 24.4 g 0.7 g 547 mg FDC 2706289 ↗
Fish, salmon, grilled Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 363 kcal 259 36.3 g 0 g 403 mg FDC 2706287 ↗
Fish, salmon, raw Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 160 kcal 188 17.3 g 0 g 54 mg FDC 2706284 ↗
Fish, salmon, smoked Direct name match 85 gUSDA reference amount 99 kcal 117 15.6 g 0 g 571 mg FDC 2706292 ↗
Fish, salmon, steamed Direct name match 140 gUSDA reference amount 332 kcal 237 36.1 g 0 g 248 mg FDC 2706290 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 85 to 140 grams—a 55-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 99 calories for “smoked” to 430 for “fried.” At a fixed 100 grams, “smoked” is 117 calories and “fried” is 307—a fixed-weight separation of 190 calories. For Fish, salmon, 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 “salmon, baked or broiled”, “salmon, canned”, “salmon, grilled”, “salmon, raw”, and “salmon, steamed”. The source formulations contain 8 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include fish, salmon, atlantic, farmed, raw, fish, salmon, pink, raw, salt, table, and oil or table fat, nfs. On this Fish, salmon 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 “Fish, salmon” cannot resolve the differences between Fish, salmon, baked or broiled and Fish, salmon, steamed. 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 85–140 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 “salmon, baked or broiled”, “salmon, canned”, “salmon, grilled”, “salmon, raw”, and “salmon, steamed”. 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 “Fish, salmon, baked or broiled” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Fish, salmon 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 fish, salmon is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“salmon, baked or broiled”, “salmon, canned”, “salmon, raw”, and “salmon, steamed”—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 Fish, salmon 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 8 exact records behind Fish, salmon 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

Fish, salmon, fried is higher in carbohydrate per 100 g

Fish, salmon, fried reports 11.7 g versus 0 g for Fish, salmon, canned: a 11.7 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Fish, salmon, canned is denser; Fish, salmon, baked or broiled, coated is higher in its source amount

Fish, salmon, canned reports 24.6 g per 100 g and 20.9 g in USDA source amount (85 g). Fish, salmon, baked or broiled, coated reports a lower 22.7 g per 100 g but a higher 31.8 g in USDA source amount (140 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Fish, salmon, baked or broiled, coated and Fish, salmon, canned are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Preparation wording (baked, roasted, or broiled 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 Fish, salmon 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 Fish, salmon, baked or broiled, coated vs Fish, salmon, canned

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: baked, roasted, or broiled 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 Fish, salmon, baked or broiled, coated vs Fish, salmon, raw

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: baked, roasted, or broiled versus raw; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 8 context records in this source topic Fish

Fish, salmon, baked or broiled and Fish, salmon, baked or broiled, coated 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 Fish, salmon, Atlantic, farmed, raw

USDA input 15236 appears in 6 of 8 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 49–75 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 Fish, salmon, pink, raw

USDA input 15083 appears in 6 of 8 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 16–25 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 63 mg in Fish, salmon, raw to 672 mg in Fish, salmon, smoked, 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 8 mg in Fish, salmon, raw to 60 mg in Fish, salmon, canned, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path