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Green beans, canned calories per cup: 31–73 across all 6 named USDA examples

Across all 6 named USDA examples, a cup contains 31–73 calories. Their listed weights span 140–145 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 73 g

31calories

Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine

Protein
0.8 g
Carbs
2.9 g
Fat
1.9 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 6 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 6 exact records in this guide report 15–37 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 22–50 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 Green beans, canned, begin by separating “Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine” from “Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, 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.

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Equal-weight view

How green beans, canned records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 6 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: Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat 22 kcal
    22 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Green beans, canned, cooked, no added fat 24 kcal
    24 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine 41 kcal
    41 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine 43 kcal
    43 kcal
  5. Maximum: Green beans, canned, cooked with oil 50 kcal
    50 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 6 named USDA records in view: 6 direct matches. All sit within “String beans.” 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 6 records together under the exact grouping key “green beans canned.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Green beans, canned, this page can compare 6 named records from FDC 2709864 through FDC 2709865. 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

70–73 g before composition

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

Composition

28 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

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

Discriminator

289 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil” (2 mg) and “canned, cooked with butter or margarine” (291 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 green beans, canned.

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

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Green beans, canned, 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 Green beans, canned nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine Direct name match 73 gUSDA reference amount 31 kcal 43 0.8 g 1.3 g 212 mg FDC 2709864 ↗
Green beans, canned, cooked with oil Direct name match 73 gUSDA reference amount 37 kcal 50 0.7 g 1.3 g 200 mg FDC 2709863 ↗
Green beans, canned, cooked, no added fat Direct name match 70 gUSDA reference amount 17 kcal 24 0.7 g 1.3 g 197 mg FDC 2709854 ↗
Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine Direct name match 73 gUSDA reference amount 30 kcal 41 0.8 g 1.3 g 14 mg FDC 2709868 ↗
Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil Direct name match 73 gUSDA reference amount 35 kcal 48 0.8 g 1.3 g 1 mg FDC 2709867 ↗
Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat Direct name match 70 gUSDA reference amount 15 kcal 22 0.8 g 1.3 g 1 mg FDC 2709865 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 70 to 73 grams—a 3-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 15 calories for “canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat” to 37 for “canned, cooked with oil.” At a fixed 100 grams, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat” is 22 calories and “canned, cooked with oil” is 50—a fixed-weight separation of 28 calories. For Green beans, canned, 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, cooked with oil”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil”, and “canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat”. The source formulations contain 4 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include beans, snap, green, canned, no salt added, drained solids, beans, snap, green, canned, regular pack, drained solids, table fat, nfs, and vegetable oil, nfs. On this Green beans, canned 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 “Green beans, canned” cannot resolve the differences between Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine and Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, 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 70–73 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, cooked with oil”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil”, and “canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    4 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 “Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Green beans, canned 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 green beans, canned is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“canned, cooked with butter or margarine”, “canned, cooked, no added fat”, “canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine”, and “canned, reduced sodium, 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 Green beans, canned 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 6 exact records behind Green beans, canned 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

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

Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine reports 291 mg versus 2 mg for Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil: a 289 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

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

Green beans, canned, cooked, no added fat reports 1 g per 100 g and 0.7 g in USDA source amount (70 g). Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine reports a lower 1 g per 100 g but a higher 0.8 g in USDA source amount (73 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine” from “Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat”

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 evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Green beans, canned source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Test a nearby record choice Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat vs Green beans, cooked, from restaurant

Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat is held as one side of the comparison. 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 6 context records in this source topic String beans

Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine and Green beans, 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 Test a nearby record choice Green beans, canned, cooked, no added fat vs Green beans, cooked, from restaurant

Green beans, canned, cooked, no added fat is held as one side of the comparison. 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 A formulation detail that separates records Beans, snap, green, canned, no salt added, drained solids

USDA input 11729 appears in 3 of 6 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 Beans, snap, green, canned, regular pack, drained solids

USDA input 11056 appears in 3 of 6 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 2 mg in Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil to 291 mg in Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, calories runs from 22 kcal in Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat to 50 kcal in Green beans, canned, cooked with oil, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path