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Milk shake calories per cup: 206–372 across all 8 named USDA examples

Across all 8 named USDA examples, a cup contains 206–372 calories. Their listed weights span 224–248 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 1 bottle (12 fl oz) · 372 g

558calories

Milk shake, bottled, chocolate

Protein
13.8 g
Carbs
75.9 g
Fat
24.8 g

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Compare all 8 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 8 exact records in this guide report 258–608 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 92–150 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 Milk shake, begin by separating “Milk shake, bottled, chocolate” from “Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light.” 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 milk shake 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: Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light 92 kcal
    92 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Milk shake, home recipe, chocolate, light 97 kcal
    97 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Milk shake, home recipe, chocolate 120 kcal
    120 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Milk shake, fast food, flavors other than chocolate 148 kcal
    148 kcal
  5. Maximum: Milk shake, fast food, chocolate 150 kcal
    150 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 “Milk shakes and other dairy drinks.” 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 8 records together under the exact grouping key “milk shake.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Milk shake, this page can compare 8 named records from FDC 2705510 through FDC 2705506. 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

280–405 g before composition

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

Composition

58 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light”; the higher is “fast food, chocolate.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

1.5 g fiber gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light” (0.1 g) and “fast food, chocolate” (1.6 g).

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 milk shake.

Important: “Lower” begins with Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light; “higher” ends with Milk shake, fast food, chocolate, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every milk shake meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Milk shake, 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 Milk shake nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Milk shake, bottled, chocolate Direct name match 372 gUSDA reference amount 558 kcal 150 13.8 g 6 g 298 mg FDC 2705510 ↗
Milk shake, bottled, flavors other than chocolate Direct name match 372 gUSDA reference amount 551 kcal 148 12.5 g 3.3 g 301 mg FDC 2705511 ↗
Milk shake, fast food, chocolate Direct name match 405 gUSDA reference amount 608 kcal 150 15 g 6.5 g 324 mg FDC 2705508 ↗
Milk shake, fast food, flavors other than chocolate Direct name match 405 gUSDA reference amount 599 kcal 148 13.6 g 3.6 g 328 mg FDC 2705509 ↗
Milk shake, home recipe, chocolate Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 336 kcal 120 9.7 g 1.4 g 146 mg FDC 2705503 ↗
Milk shake, home recipe, chocolate, light Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 272 kcal 97 11.2 g 0.8 g 143 mg FDC 2705505 ↗
Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 316 kcal 113 9.4 g 0.6 g 148 mg FDC 2705504 ↗
Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light Direct name match 280 gUSDA reference amount 258 kcal 92 10.9 g 0.3 g 143 mg FDC 2705506 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 280 to 405 grams—a 125-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 258 calories for “home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light” to 608 for “fast food, chocolate.” At a fixed 100 grams, “home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light” is 92 calories and “fast food, chocolate” is 150—a fixed-weight separation of 58 calories. For Milk shake, 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 “bottled, chocolate”, “fast food, chocolate”, “home recipe, chocolate”, “home recipe, chocolate, light”, and “home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light”. The source formulations contain 8 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include shake, fast food, vanilla, cocoa, dry powder, unsweetened, milk, lowfat, fluid, 1% milkfat, with added vitamin a and vitamin d, and milk, whole, 3.25% milkfat, with added vitamin d. On this Milk shake 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 “Milk shake” cannot resolve the differences between Milk shake, bottled, chocolate and Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light. 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 280–405 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 “bottled, chocolate”, “fast food, chocolate”, “home recipe, chocolate”, “home recipe, chocolate, light”, and “home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light”. 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 “Milk shake, bottled, chocolate” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Milk shake 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 milk shake is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“bottled, chocolate”, “fast food, chocolate”, “home recipe, chocolate, light”, and “home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light”—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 Milk shake 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

1 more-specific milk shake 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 Milk shake, home recipe Milk shake, home recipe: compare 4 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 8 exact records behind Milk shake 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

Milk shake, fast food, chocolate is higher in dietary fiber per 100 g

Milk shake, fast food, chocolate reports 1.6 g versus 0.1 g for Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light: a 1.5 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Milk shake, bottled, chocolate is denser; Milk shake, fast food, flavors other than chocolate is higher in its source amount

Milk shake, bottled, chocolate reports 150 kcal per 100 g and 558 kcal in USDA source amount (372 g). Milk shake, fast food, flavors other than chocolate reports a lower 148 kcal per 100 g but a higher 599 kcal in USDA source amount (405 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Milk shake, fast food, chocolate and Milk shake, home recipe, chocolate, light are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Source context (restaurant or fast food versus home recipe) 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 Milk shake 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 Milk shake, bottled, chocolate vs Milk shake, home recipe, chocolate, light

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

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Milk shake, fast food, chocolate vs Milk shake, home recipe, chocolate, light

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Source context: restaurant or fast food versus home recipe; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 8 context records in this source topic Milk shakes and other dairy drinks

Milk shake, bottled, chocolate and Milk shake, bottled, flavors other than chocolate 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 Shake, fast food, vanilla

USDA input 14347 appears in 4 of 8 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 98–100 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 Cocoa, dry powder, unsweetened

USDA input 19165 appears in 2 of 8 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 2–2 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 Dietary fiber: density and serving context

In this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0.1 g in Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, light to 1.6 g in Milk shake, fast food, chocolate, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, vitamin D runs from 0 µg in Milk shake, bottled, chocolate to 0.8 µg in Milk shake, home recipe, flavors other than chocolate, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path