Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition
1 small (70 g) of muffin, fruit has about 263 calories. Choose your preparation and adjust the amount below.
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Estimated for 1 small · 70 g
263calories
Muffin, fruit
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Choose the muffin type and its size before using a calorie value. A bakery-style muffin, mini muffin, and English muffin are different foods and portions.
A worked portion example
Illustrative calculation: 1 small weighs 70 g using the linked record's portion weight. At 375 calories per 100 g, 70 × 375 ÷ 100 = about 263 calories and 3.1 g protein. Small means the linked example's 70 g amount, not a promise about the size sold at a particular bakery.
Check the exact food and household measure →The fruit-muffin example lists small as 70 g, medium as 130 g, and large as 180 g. A bakery may use those labels differently. If the wrapper shows a gram weight, use it; if a package contains several muffins, check whether its nutrition is for one muffin or the whole package.
Carrot, oat-bran, chocolate-chip, and fruit muffins have distinct recipes here. A flavor name alone does not establish the amount of oil, sugar, or mix-ins. Choose the closest type and portion, or use the recipe or label when you have it.
This collection also includes English muffins. Select that exact entry for a split breakfast muffin instead of using the sweet-muffin portions. Add butter, jam, egg, or cheese separately unless you choose a complete sandwich entry.
Editorial update: . Portion examples are calculations from the linked USDA records.
The 15 exact records in this guide report 132–523 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 208–402 calories per 100 grams. Those are observations from named database records—not a universal range or an estimate of an unseen plate.
Across 14 of 15 named USDA examples, a large contains 374–724 calories. Each included example lists 180 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data. The remaining 1 specifically named example does not list that exact household measure.
Match my meal
For Muffins, begin by separating “Muffin, carrot” from “Muffin, whole wheat.” 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 15 linked records.
Equal-weight view
Five rank landmarks are shown from all 15 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.
Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories
What this page compares
This guide keeps 15 named USDA records in view: 15 direct matches. They span 2 source categories, including Biscuits, muffins, quick breads and Bagels and English muffins. 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 15 records together under the exact grouping key “muffin.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.
For Muffins, this page can compare 15 named records from FDC 2707845 through FDC 2707834. 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 2.2× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.
Composition
The lower endpoint is “wheat bran”; the higher is “chocolate chip.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.
Discriminator
Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “plain” (0.8 g) and “oat bran” (4.6 g).
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 muffins.
132kcal
58 g source amount · 227 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record481kcal
130 g source amount · 370 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record523kcal
130 g source amount · 402 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact recordImportant: “Lower” begins with Muffin, English; “higher” ends with Muffin, chocolate chip, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every muffins meal.
Full comparison
For Muffins, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muffin, carrot | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 408 kcal | 314 | 6.5 g | 1.8 g | 402 mg | FDC 2707845 ↗ |
| Muffin, cheese | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 477 kcal | 367 | 12.6 g | 1.3 g | 638 mg | FDC 2707842 ↗ |
| Muffin, chocolate | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 514 kcal | 395 | 8.5 g | 2.5 g | 441 mg | FDC 2707833 ↗ |
| Muffin, chocolate chip | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 523 kcal | 402 | 7.5 g | 2.3 g | 398 mg | FDC 2707832 ↗ |
| Muffin, English | Direct name match | 58 gUSDA reference amount | 132 kcal | 227 | 5.1 g | 2 g | 247 mg | FDC 2707698 ↗ |
| Muffin, fruit | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 488 kcal | 375 | 5.8 g | 1.4 g | 437 mg | FDC 2707830 ↗ |
| Muffin, fruit, low fat | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 332 kcal | 255 | 5.5 g | 5.5 g | 537 mg | FDC 2707831 ↗ |
| Muffin, oat bran | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 351 kcal | 270 | 9.1 g | 6 g | 511 mg | FDC 2707840 ↗ |
| Muffin, oatmeal | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 481 kcal | 370 | 8.4 g | 2 g | 525 mg | FDC 2707839 ↗ |
| Muffin, plain | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 486 kcal | 374 | 7.7 g | 1 g | 465 mg | FDC 2707841 ↗ |
| Muffin, pumpkin | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 397 kcal | 305 | 6.5 g | 1.8 g | 371 mg | FDC 2707843 ↗ |
| Muffin, wheat | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 484 kcal | 372 | 9 g | 2.3 g | 506 mg | FDC 2707835 ↗ |
| Muffin, wheat bran | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 270 kcal | 208 | 8.1 g | 2.9 g | 270 mg | FDC 2707837 ↗ |
| Muffin, whole grain | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 484 kcal | 372 | 9 g | 2.3 g | 506 mg | FDC 2707836 ↗ |
| Muffin, whole wheat | Direct name match | 130 gUSDA reference amount | 484 kcal | 372 | 10.1 g | 4.6 g | 511 mg | FDC 2707834 ↗ |
Portion analysis
The listed source amounts run from 58 to 130 grams—a 72-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 132 calories for “English” to 523 for “chocolate chip.” At a fixed 100 grams, “wheat bran” is 208 calories and “chocolate chip” is 402—a fixed-weight separation of 194 calories. For Muffins, 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 “carrot”, “English”, “oat bran”, “wheat”, and “whole wheat”. The source formulations contain 25 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include eggs, grade a, large, egg whole, flour, wheat, all-purpose, enriched, bleached, leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate, and milk, nfs. On this Muffins 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 “Muffins” cannot resolve the differences between Muffin, carrot and Muffin, whole wheat. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.
The source amounts span 58–130 grams. Compare per 100 grams before reading a serving-calorie gap as a composition gap.
Representative record-level distinctions include “carrot”, “English”, “oat bran”, “wheat”, and “whole wheat”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.
25 source-input codes appear across the selected records. Their presence and listed weights describe USDA formulations, not finished plated proportions.
Even “Muffin, carrot” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Muffins unknowns for correction instead of converting them into false precision.
Record matching
Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that muffins is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“carrot”, “fruit”, “plain”, and “whole wheat”—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 15 exact records behind Muffins 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
Muffin, chocolate chip reports 32.9 g versus 1.9 g for Muffin, cheese: a 31 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.
Inspect the underlying evidenceThe denominator changes the answer
Muffin, English reports 227 kcal per 100 g and 132 kcal in USDA source amount (58 g). Muffin, wheat bran reports a lower 208 kcal per 100 g but a higher 270 kcal in USDA source amount (130 g).
Choose the record before reading the number
The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Grain wording (No matching controlled term in the source name versus whole-grain or whole-wheat wording) 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 evidenceContextual knowledge graph
For Muffins source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.
Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Fat-level wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus reduced-fat wording; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.
Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Muffin, plain vs Muffin, whole wheatBoth records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Grain wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus whole-grain or whole-wheat wording; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.
Follow this evidence path 14 context records in this source topic Biscuits, muffins, quick breadsMuffin, carrot and Muffin, cheese 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 Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg wholeUSDA input 1123 appears in 11 of 15 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 50–100 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 Flour, wheat, all-purpose, enriched, bleachedUSDA input 20081 appears in 10 of 15 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 156.3–250 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 Calcium: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, calcium runs from 35 mg in Muffin, fruit, low fat to 261 mg in Muffin, cheese, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Dietary fiber: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0.8 g in Muffin, plain to 4.6 g in Muffin, oat bran, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path