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Pinto beans calories per cup: 247–546 across all 6 named USDA examples

Across all 6 named USDA examples, a cup contains 247–546 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

173calories

Pinto beans, from canned, fat added

Protein
6.8 g
Carbs
22.4 g
Fat
6.6 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 123–273 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 137–210 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 Pinto beans, begin by separating “Pinto beans, from canned, fat added” from “Pinto 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 pinto 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: Pinto beans, from canned, no added fat 137 kcal
    137 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Pinto beans, from dried, no added fat 142 kcal
    142 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Pinto beans, from canned, fat added 188 kcal
    188 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Pinto beans, from canned, reduced sodium 188 kcal
    188 kcal
  5. Maximum: Pinto beans, from fast food / restaurant 210 kcal
    210 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 “pinto beans.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Pinto beans, this page can compare 6 named records from FDC 2707374 through FDC 2707377. 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

73 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

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

Discriminator

133 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “from dried, fat added” (217 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 pinto beans.

Important: “Lower” begins with Pinto beans, from canned, no added fat; “higher” ends with Pinto 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 pinto beans meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Pinto 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 Pinto beans nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Pinto beans, from canned, fat added Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 173 kcal 188 6.8 g 6.8 g 279 mg FDC 2707374 ↗
Pinto beans, from canned, no added fat Direct name match 90 gUSDA reference amount 123 kcal 137 6.9 g 6.9 g 284 mg FDC 2707375 ↗
Pinto beans, from canned, reduced sodium Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 173 kcal 188 6.8 g 6.8 g 215 mg FDC 2707376 ↗
Pinto beans, from dried, fat added Direct name match 92 gUSDA reference amount 176 kcal 191 7.7 g 7.7 g 200 mg FDC 2707372 ↗
Pinto beans, from dried, no added fat Direct name match 90 gUSDA reference amount 128 kcal 142 8.1 g 8 g 209 mg FDC 2707373 ↗
Pinto beans, from fast food / restaurant Direct name match 130 gUSDA reference amount 273 kcal 210 10.6 g 10.5 g 455 mg FDC 2707377 ↗

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 123 calories for “from canned, no added fat” to 273 for “from fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “from canned, no added fat” is 137 calories and “from fast food / restaurant” is 210—a fixed-weight separation of 73 calories. For Pinto 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 4 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include salt, table, vegetable oil, nfs, beans, pinto, mature seeds, canned, solids and liquids, low sodium, and beans, pinto, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt. On this Pinto 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 “Pinto beans” cannot resolve the differences between Pinto beans, from canned, fat added and Pinto 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

    4 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 “Pinto beans, from canned, fat added” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Pinto 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 pinto 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 Pinto 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 Pinto 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

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

Pinto beans, from fast food / restaurant reports 9.6 g versus 0.7 g for Pinto 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

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

Pinto beans, from dried, fat added reports 8.4 g per 100 g and 7.7 g in USDA source amount (92 g). Pinto beans, from fast food / restaurant reports a lower 8.1 g per 100 g but a higher 10.6 g in USDA source amount (130 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Pinto beans, from canned, no added fat and Pinto beans, from fast food / restaurant are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Added-fat wording (no added fat 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 Pinto 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 Pinto beans, from canned, no added fat vs Pinto 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 Compare two records on this page Pinto beans, from canned, reduced sodium vs Pinto 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 6 context records in this source topic Beans, peas, legumes

Pinto beans, from canned, fat added and Pinto 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 Salt, table

USDA input 2047 appears in 5 of 6 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.2–1 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 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 Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 42 mg in Pinto beans, from fast food / restaurant to 78 mg in Pinto beans, from canned, no added fat, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Pinto beans, from canned, fat added

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2707374 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

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