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Kidney beans calories per cup: 227–507 across all 6 named USDA examples

Across all 6 named USDA examples, a cup contains 227–507 calories. Their listed weights span 180–260 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 92 g

171calories

Kidney beans, from canned, fat added

Protein
7.7 g
Carbs
21.9 g
Fat
6.3 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 113–254 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 126–195 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 Kidney beans, begin by separating “Kidney beans, from canned, fat added” from “Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant.” 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 kidney beans 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: Kidney beans, from dried, no added fat 126 kcal
    126 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Kidney beans, from canned, no added fat 135 kcal
    135 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Kidney beans, from dried, fat added 177 kcal
    177 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Kidney beans, from canned, fat added 186 kcal
    186 kcal
  5. Maximum: Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant 195 kcal
    195 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 “Beans, peas, legumes.” 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 6 records together under the exact grouping key “kidney beans.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Kidney beans, this page can compare 6 named records from FDC 2707382 through FDC 2707385. 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

90–130 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.4× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

69 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “from dried, no added fat”; the higher is “from fast food / restaurant.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

162 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “reduced sodium” (188 mg) and “from fast food / restaurant” (350 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 kidney beans.

Important: “Lower” begins with Kidney beans, from dried, no added fat; “higher” ends with Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every kidney beans meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Kidney beans, 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 Kidney beans nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Kidney beans, from canned, fat added Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 171 kcal 186 7.7 g 7.1 g 275 mg FDC 2707382 ↗
Kidney beans, from canned, no added fat Direct name match 90 gUSDA reference amount 122 kcal 135 7.8 g 7.2 g 280 mg FDC 2707383 ↗
Kidney beans, from canned, reduced sodium Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 171 kcal 186 7.7 g 7.8 g 173 mg FDC 2707384 ↗
Kidney beans, from dried, fat added Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 163 kcal 177 7.4 g 6.3 g 201 mg FDC 2707380 ↗
Kidney beans, from dried, no added fat Direct name match 90 gUSDA reference amount 113 kcal 126 7.8 g 6.7 g 210 mg FDC 2707381 ↗
Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 130 gUSDA reference amount 254 kcal 195 10.2 g 8.7 g 455 mg FDC 2707385 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 90 to 130 grams—a 40-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 113 calories for “from dried, no added fat” to 254 for “from fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “from dried, no added fat” is 126 calories and “from fast food / restaurant” is 195—a fixed-weight separation of 69 calories. For Kidney beans, 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 “from canned, fat added”, “from canned, no added fat”, “from dried, fat added”, “from dried, no added fat”, and “from fast food / restaurant”. The source formulations contain 5 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include vegetable oil, nfs, beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, canned, solids and liquid, low sodium, beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt, and salt, table. On this Kidney beans 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 “Kidney beans” cannot resolve the differences between Kidney beans, from canned, fat added and Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant. 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 90–130 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 “from canned, fat added”, “from canned, no added fat”, “from dried, fat added”, “from dried, no added fat”, and “from fast food / restaurant”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    5 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 “Kidney beans, from canned, fat added” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Kidney beans 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 kidney beans is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“from canned, fat added”, “from canned, reduced sodium”, “from dried, fat added”, and “from fast food / restaurant”—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 Kidney beans 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 Kidney beans 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

Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant is higher in total fat per 100 g

Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant reports 9.5 g versus 0.5 g for Kidney beans, from dried, no added fat: a 9 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Kidney beans, from canned, fat added is denser; Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant is higher in its source amount

Kidney beans, from canned, fat added reports 8.4 g per 100 g and 7.7 g in USDA source amount (92 g). Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant reports a lower 7.8 g per 100 g but a higher 10.2 g in USDA source amount (130 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Kidney beans, from canned, reduced sodium and Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Source form (canned 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 Kidney beans 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 Kidney beans, from canned, reduced sodium vs Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Source form: canned 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 Kidney beans, from canned, no added fat vs Kidney beans, from fast food / 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 6 context records in this source topic Beans, peas, legumes

Kidney beans, from canned, fat added and Kidney beans, from canned, no added fat 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 Vegetable oil, NFS

USDA input 82101000 appears in 4 of 6 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 7–10 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt

USDA input 16033 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 188 mg in Kidney beans, from canned, reduced sodium to 350 mg in Kidney beans, from fast food / restaurant, 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 26 mg in Kidney beans, from dried, fat added to 48 mg in Kidney beans, from canned, no added fat, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path