Feast Get Feast
Menu

Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition

Peanuts calories per package: 159–300 across 8 of 9 named USDA examples

Across 8 of 9 named USDA examples, a package contains 159–300 calories. Each included example lists 50 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.

Portion calculator

Estimate your portion

Choose a source measure or enter the weight you ate.

Preparation and portion

Named measures come from this exact source record.

Estimated for 28 g

89calories

Peanuts, boiled

Protein
3.8 g
Carbs
6 g
Fat
6.2 g

These values scale the selected reference food by weight. Ingredients, preparation, and portion size can change your meal’s estimate.

FoodData Central Survey Foods (FNDDS) · FDC 2707513 Full nutrition profile →

Compare all 9 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 9 exact records in this guide report 89–306 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 318–599 calories per 100 grams. Those are observations from named database records—not a universal range or an estimate of an unseen plate.

Match my meal

Start with the description closest to what you ate

For Peanuts, begin by separating “Peanuts, boiled” from “Peanuts, unroasted.” 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 9 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How peanuts records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 9 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: Peanuts, boiled 318 kcal
    318 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Peanuts, unroasted 567 kcal
    567 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Peanuts, dry roasted, lightly salted 584 kcal
    584 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Peanuts, dry roasted, unsalted 587 kcal
    587 kcal
  5. Maximum: Peanuts, roasted, unsalted 599 kcal
    599 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 9 named USDA records in view: 9 direct matches. They span 2 source categories, including Nuts and seeds and Candy containing chocolate. 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 9 records together under the exact grouping key “peanuts.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Peanuts, this page can compare 9 named records from FDC 2707513 through FDC 2707514. 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

28–55 g before composition

The largest source amount is 2.0× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

281 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “boiled”; the higher is “roasted, unsalted.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

745 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “dry roasted, unsalted” (6 mg) and “boiled” (751 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 peanuts.

Important: “Lower” begins with Peanuts, boiled; “higher” ends with Peanuts, chocolate covered candy, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every peanuts meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Peanuts, 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.

On smaller screens, focus the table and scroll horizontally to read every column.

USDA records selected for the Peanuts nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Peanuts, boiled Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 89 kcal 318 3.8 g 2.5 g 210 mg FDC 2707513 ↗
Peanuts, chocolate covered candy Direct name match 55 gUSDA reference amount 306 kcal 556 7.9 g 3 g 28 mg FDC 2710356 ↗
Peanuts, dry roasted, lightly salted Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 164 kcal 584 6.8 g 2.4 g 56 mg FDC 2707518 ↗
Peanuts, dry roasted, salted Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 164 kcal 587 6.8 g 2.4 g 115 mg FDC 2707517 ↗
Peanuts, dry roasted, unsalted Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 164 kcal 587 6.8 g 2.4 g 2 mg FDC 2707519 ↗
Peanuts, honey roasted Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 161 kcal 574 5.8 g 2 g 98 mg FDC 2707520 ↗
Peanuts, roasted, salted Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 168 kcal 599 7.8 g 2.6 g 90 mg FDC 2707515 ↗
Peanuts, roasted, unsalted Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 168 kcal 599 7.8 g 2.6 g 2 mg FDC 2707516 ↗
Peanuts, unroasted Direct name match 28 gUSDA reference amount 159 kcal 567 7.2 g 2.4 g 5 mg FDC 2707514 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 28 to 55 grams—a 27-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 89 calories for “boiled” to 306 for “chocolate covered candy.” At a fixed 100 grams, “boiled” is 318 calories and “roasted, unsalted” is 599—a fixed-weight separation of 281 calories. For Peanuts, 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 “boiled”, “dry roasted, lightly salted”, “dry roasted, unsalted”, “roasted, salted”, and “unroasted”. The source formulations contain 10 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include peanuts, all types, dry-roasted, without salt, peanuts, all types, dry-roasted, with salt, candies, milk chocolate, and peanuts, all types, cooked, boiled, with salt. On this Peanuts 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 “Peanuts” cannot resolve the differences between Peanuts, boiled and Peanuts, unroasted. 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 28–55 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 “boiled”, “dry roasted, lightly salted”, “dry roasted, unsalted”, “roasted, salted”, and “unroasted”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    10 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 “Peanuts, boiled” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Peanuts 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 peanuts is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“boiled”, “dry roasted, salted”, “honey roasted”, and “unroasted”—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 Peanuts 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 peanuts 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 Peanuts, dry roasted Peanuts, dry roasted: compare 3 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 9 exact records behind Peanuts 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

Peanuts, boiled is higher in sodium per 100 g

Peanuts, boiled reports 751 mg versus 6 mg for Peanuts, dry roasted, unsalted: a 745 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Peanuts, dry roasted, lightly salted is denser; Peanuts, chocolate covered candy is higher in its source amount

Peanuts, dry roasted, lightly salted reports 584 kcal per 100 g and 164 kcal in USDA source amount (28 g). Peanuts, chocolate covered candy reports a lower 556 kcal per 100 g but a higher 306 kcal in USDA source amount (55 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Peanuts, boiled and Peanuts, roasted, salted are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Preparation wording (boiled or poached versus baked, roasted, or broiled) 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 Peanuts 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 Peanuts, boiled vs Peanuts, roasted, salted

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: boiled or poached versus baked, roasted, or broiled; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Peanuts, boiled vs Peanuts, roasted, unsalted

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: boiled or poached versus baked, roasted, or broiled; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 8 context records in this source topic Nuts and seeds

Peanuts, boiled and Peanuts, dry roasted, lightly salted 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 Peanuts, all types, dry-roasted, without salt

USDA input 16390 appears in 3 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 40–100 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 Peanuts, all types, dry-roasted, with salt

USDA input 16090 appears in 2 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 85–100 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 6 mg in Peanuts, dry roasted, unsalted to 751 mg in Peanuts, boiled, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, iron runs from 1 mg in Peanuts, boiled to 4.6 mg in Peanuts, unroasted, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path