Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition
1 standard can (115 g) of fish, tuna, canned has about 98 calories. Choose your preparation and adjust the amount below.
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Estimated for 1 standard can · 115 g
98calories
Fish, tuna, canned
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Choose canned, cooked, or raw tuna to match what you weighed. Then enter the edible amount; a can size, a steak, and a scoop of tuna salad need different checks.
A worked portion example
Illustrative calculation: 1 standard can weighs 115 g using the linked record's portion weight. At 85 calories per 100 g, 115 × 85 ÷ 100 = about 98 calories and 21.9 g protein. This uses the example's 115 g can measure. Check your own can's label and drained-weight basis before using that amount.
Check the exact food and household measure →The canned example uses light tuna canned in water, drained solids, and lists a standard can as 115 g. Your product may use different sizes or packing liquid. Check whether its label describes drained tuna or the contents as sold, then use the matching weight and number of servings. Oil-packed tuna needs its own product information.
Use the raw entry for a raw tuna weight and the cooked entry for the cooked edible portion. These two entries are not a universal before-and-after conversion for the same steak. For a batch you cook yourself, keep the raw ingredient totals and divide them across the finished batch.
The canned tuna entry is not a finished tuna-salad or sandwich estimate. Include mayonnaise, oil, bread, and other ingredients you used, or choose a matching complete dish. If you eat only part of a mixed batch, apply that portion to the full recipe rather than to the tuna alone.
Editorial update: . Portion examples are calculations from the linked USDA records.
The 3 exact records in this guide report 72–158 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 85–176 calories per 100 grams. Those are observations from named database records—not a universal range or an estimate of an unseen plate.
Across all 3 named USDA examples, a cup contains 115–238 calories. Each included example lists 135 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data.
Match my meal
For Tuna, begin by separating “Fish, tuna, canned” from “Fish, tuna, raw.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.
Showing all 3 linked records.
Equal-weight view
All 3 cited records are shown at the same 100-gram weight. The source servings may differ.
Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories
What this page compares
This guide keeps 3 named USDA records in view: 3 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 3 records together under the exact grouping key “fish tuna.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.
For Tuna, this page can compare 3 named records from FDC 2706311 through FDC 2706308. 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
Carry the denominator, exact identity, and strongest observed contrast into every number below.
Portion
The largest source amount is 1.1× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.
Composition
The lower endpoint is “canned”; the higher is “cooked.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.
Discriminator
Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “raw” (45 mg) and “cooked” (271 mg).
Observed source examples
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 tuna.
72kcal
85 g source amount · 85 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record93kcal
85 g source amount · 109 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record158kcal
90 g source amount · 176 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact recordImportant: “Lower” begins with Fish, tuna, canned; “higher” ends with Fish, tuna, cooked, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every tuna meal.
Full comparison
For Tuna, 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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| Exact source record | Match | Source amount | Calories | kcal / 100 g | Protein | Fiber | Sodium | USDA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish, tuna, canned | Direct name match | 85 gUSDA reference amount | 72 kcal | 85 | 16.2 g | 0 g | 186 mg | FDC 2706311 ↗ |
| Fish, tuna, cooked | Direct name match | 90 gUSDA reference amount | 158 kcal | 176 | 27.3 g | 0 g | 244 mg | FDC 2706310 ↗ |
| Fish, tuna, raw | Direct name match | 85 gUSDA reference amount | 93 kcal | 109 | 20.7 g | 0 g | 38 mg | FDC 2706308 ↗ |
Portion analysis
The listed source amounts run from 85 to 90 grams—a 5-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 72 calories for “canned” to 158 for “cooked.” At a fixed 100 grams, “canned” is 85 calories and “cooked” is 176—a fixed-weight separation of 91 calories. For Tuna, 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 published descriptions distinguish forms such as “tuna, canned”, “tuna, cooked”, and “tuna, raw”. The source formulations contain 4 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include fish, tuna, fresh, yellowfin, raw, fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained solids, oil or table fat, nfs, and salt, table. On this Tuna 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
The family label “Tuna” cannot resolve the differences between Fish, tuna, canned and Fish, tuna, raw. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.
The source amounts span 85–90 grams. Compare per 100 grams before reading a serving-calorie gap as a composition gap.
Representative record-level distinctions include “tuna, canned”, “tuna, cooked”, and “tuna, raw”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.
4 source-input codes appear across the selected records. Their presence and listed weights describe USDA formulations, not finished plated proportions.
Even “Fish, tuna, canned” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Tuna unknowns for correction instead of converting them into false precision.
Record matching
Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that tuna is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“tuna, canned”, “tuna, cooked”, and “tuna, raw”—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.
Decision support from the exact records on this page
These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 3 exact records behind Tuna 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, tuna, cooked reports 5.1 g versus 0.5 g for Fish, tuna, raw: a 4.6 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.
Inspect the underlying evidenceCheck the weight before comparing serving totals
Fish, tuna, canned uses USDA source amount (85 g), while Fish, tuna, cooked uses USDA source amount (90 g). Use per 100 g for equal-weight composition; use the serving column only when those named source amounts answer your question.
Record identity is part of the estimate
These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.
Inspect the underlying evidenceContextual knowledge graph
For Tuna source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.
USDA input 15121 appears in 1 of 3 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 A formulation detail that separates records Oil or table fat, NFSUSDA input 81200100 appears in 1 of 3 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 4–4 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 3 context records in this source topic FishFish, tuna, canned and Fish, tuna, cooked 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 Put the observed spread in corpus context Sodium: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, sodium runs from 45 mg in Fish, tuna, raw to 271 mg in Fish, tuna, cooked, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, calcium runs from 4 mg in Fish, tuna, raw to 18 mg in Fish, tuna, canned, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Fish, tuna, cannedOpen the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706311 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.
Follow this evidence path Check another exact record Fish, tuna, cookedOpen the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706310 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.
Follow this evidence path