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Nutritional drink or shake calories per cup: 97–355 across all 11 named USDA examples

Across all 11 named USDA examples, a cup contains 97–355 calories. Their listed weights span 247–256 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 can (11 fl oz) · 341 g

208calories

Nutritional drink or shake, high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)

Protein
22.5 g
Carbs
2.9 g
Fat
11.5 g

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Compare all 11 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 11 exact records in this guide report 103–355 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 38–141 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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For Nutritional drink or shake, begin by separating “Nutritional drink or shake, high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)” from “Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast).” 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 11 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How nutritional drink or shake records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 11 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: Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, light (Muscle Milk) 38 kcal
    38 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast) 57 kcal
    57 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Carnation Instant Breakfast) 92 kcal
    92 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure) 105 kcal
    105 kcal
  5. Maximum: Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus) 141 kcal
    141 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 11 named USDA records in view: 11 direct matches. All sit within “Nutritional beverages.” 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 11 records together under the exact grouping key “nutritional drink or shake.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Nutritional drink or shake, this page can compare 11 named records from FDC 2710724 through FDC 2710723. 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

247–352 g before composition

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

Composition

103 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “light (Muscle Milk)”; the higher is “ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus).” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

1.6 g fiber gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus)” (0.0 g) and “sugar free (Slim Fast)” (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 nutritional drink or shake.

Important: “Lower” begins with Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, light (Muscle Milk); “higher” ends with Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus), using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every nutritional drink or shake meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Nutritional drink or 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 Nutritional drink or shake nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Nutritional drink or shake, high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast) Direct name match 341 gUSDA reference amount 208 kcal 61 22.5 g 1.4 g 246 mg FDC 2710724 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, liquid, soy-based Direct name match 247 gUSDA reference amount 341 kcal 138 13.3 g 3 g 190 mg FDC 2710728 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost Plus) Direct name match 256 gUSDA reference amount 353 kcal 138 13.8 g 3.1 g 197 mg FDC 2710715 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost) Direct name match 256 gUSDA reference amount 259 kcal 101 10.8 g 3.3 g 161 mg FDC 2710714 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Carnation Instant Breakfast) Direct name match 341 gUSDA reference amount 314 kcal 92 18.8 g 0.3 g 286 mg FDC 2710716 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus) Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 355 kcal 141 13 g 0 g 239 mg FDC 2710718 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure) Direct name match 252 gUSDA reference amount 265 kcal 105 9.6 g 0 g 212 mg FDC 2710717 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Muscle Milk) Direct name match 352 gUSDA reference amount 183 kcal 52 20.7 g 0.7 g 334 mg FDC 2710720 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast) Direct name match 341 gUSDA reference amount 194 kcal 57 11.3 g 5.5 g 232 mg FDC 2710722 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, light (Muscle Milk) Direct name match 272 gUSDA reference amount 103 kcal 38 13 g 0.5 g 73 mg FDC 2710721 ↗
Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast) Direct name match 341 gUSDA reference amount 194 kcal 57 11.3 g 5.5 g 232 mg FDC 2710723 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 247 to 352 grams—a 105-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 103 calories for “light (Muscle Milk)” to 355 for “ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus).” At a fixed 100 grams, “light (Muscle Milk)” is 38 calories and “ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus)” is 141—a fixed-weight separation of 103 calories. For Nutritional drink or 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 “high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)”, “ready-to-drink (Boost)”, “ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus)”, “ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)”, and “ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast)”. The source formulations contain 11 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include beverages, nestle, boost plus, nutritional drink, ready-to-drink, beverages, unilever, slimfast, meal replacement, regular, ready-to-drink, 3-2-1 plan, beverage, instant breakfast powder, chocolate, not reconstituted, and beverages, abbott, ensure plus, ready-to-drink. On this Nutritional drink or 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 “Nutritional drink or shake” cannot resolve the differences between Nutritional drink or shake, high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast) and Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast). 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 247–352 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 “high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)”, “ready-to-drink (Boost)”, “ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus)”, “ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)”, and “ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast)”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    11 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 “Nutritional drink or shake, …, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Nutritional drink or 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 nutritional drink or shake is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)”, “ready-to-drink (Boost)”, “ready-to-drink (Muscle Milk)”, and “ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast)”—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 Nutritional drink or 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.

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 11 exact records behind Nutritional drink or 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

Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast) is higher in dietary fiber per 100 g

Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast) reports 1.6 g versus 0 g for Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus): a 1.6 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost) is denser; Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Carnation Instant Breakfast) is higher in its source amount

Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost) reports 101 kcal per 100 g and 259 kcal in USDA source amount (256 g). Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Carnation Instant Breakfast) reports a lower 92 kcal per 100 g but a higher 314 kcal in USDA source amount (341 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost Plus) and Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost) are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes the exact source description 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 Nutritional drink or 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 Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost Plus) vs Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Boost)

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Calories: 138 versus 101 kcal per 100 g; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 11 context records in this source topic Nutritional beverages

Nutritional drink or shake, high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast) and Nutritional drink or shake, liquid, soy-based 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 Beverages, water, tap, drinking

USDA input 14411 appears in 1 of 11 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 473.6–473.6 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 Milk, NFS

USDA input 11100000 appears in 1 of 11 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 244–244 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 g in Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus) to 1.6 g in Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, sugar free (Slim Fast), 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 38 kcal in Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink, light (Muscle Milk) to 141 kcal in Nutritional drink or shake, ready-to-drink (Ensure Plus), all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Nutritional drink or shake, high protein, ready-to-drink (Slim Fast)

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2710724 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

Follow this evidence path