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Pizza, cheese calories per surface inch: 12–21 across all 20 named USDA examples

Across all 20 named USDA examples, a surface inch contains 12–21 calories. Their listed weights span 5–8 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 266 g

713calories

Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust

Protein
27.7 g
Carbs
77.1 g
Fat
32.7 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 20 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 20 exact records in this guide report 351–811 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 230–274 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 Pizza, cheese, begin by separating “Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust” from “Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust.” 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 20 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How pizza, cheese records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 20 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: Pizza, cheese, with fruit, thin crust 230 kcal
    230 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust 242 kcal
    242 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thick crust 254 kcal
    254 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust 266 kcal
    266 kcal
  5. Maximum: Pizza, cheese, stuffed crust 274 kcal
    274 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 20 named USDA records in view: 20 direct matches. All sit within “Pizza.” 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 two description segments” placed these 20 records together under the exact grouping key “pizza cheese.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Pizza, cheese, this page can compare 20 named records from FDC 2708613 through FDC 2708626. 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

142–300 g before composition

The largest source amount is 2.1× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

44 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “cheese, with fruit, thin crust”; the higher is “stuffed crust.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

2.3 g fiber gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “stuffed crust” (1.7 g) and “cheese, from school lunch, thin crust” (4.0 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 pizza, cheese.

Important: “Lower” begins with Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thin crust; “higher” ends with Pizza, cheese, stuffed crust, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every pizza, cheese meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Pizza, cheese, 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 Pizza, cheese nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust Direct name match 266 gUSDA reference amount 713 kcal 268 27.7 g 5.9 g 1,189 mg FDC 2708613 ↗
Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thin crust Direct name match 194 gUSDA reference amount 510 kcal 263 23.1 g 5.8 g 914 mg FDC 2708612 ↗
Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust Direct name match 238 gUSDA reference amount 633 kcal 266 27.1 g 5.5 g 1,285 mg FDC 2708616 ↗
Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thick crust Direct name match 264 gUSDA reference amount 715 kcal 271 28.5 g 5.8 g 1,426 mg FDC 2708617 ↗
Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust Direct name match 172 gUSDA reference amount 458 kcal 266 19.6 g 4 g 929 mg FDC 2708615 ↗
Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, medium crust Direct name match 147 gUSDA reference amount 368 kcal 250 20.1 g 5 g 619 mg FDC 2708619 ↗
Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thick crust Direct name match 158 gUSDA reference amount 401 kcal 254 23.1 g 4.6 g 665 mg FDC 2708621 ↗
Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thin crust Direct name match 142 gUSDA reference amount 351 kcal 247 18 g 5.7 g 598 mg FDC 2708620 ↗
Pizza, cheese, gluten-free thick crust Direct name match 264 gUSDA reference amount 689 kcal 261 20.6 g 7.7 g 1,259 mg FDC 2708694 ↗
Pizza, cheese, gluten-free thin crust Direct name match 238 gUSDA reference amount 628 kcal 264 20.8 g 6 g 1,154 mg FDC 2708693 ↗
Pizza, cheese, stuffed crust Direct name match 296 gUSDA reference amount 811 kcal 274 36.1 g 5 g 1,820 mg FDC 2708618 ↗
Pizza, cheese, whole wheat thick crust Direct name match 264 gUSDA reference amount 700 kcal 265 30.1 g 10.3 g 1,447 mg FDC 2708688 ↗
Pizza, cheese, whole wheat thin crust Direct name match 238 gUSDA reference amount 635 kcal 267 28.1 g 8.3 g 1,292 mg FDC 2708687 ↗
Pizza, cheese, with fruit, medium crust Direct name match 274 gUSDA reference amount 655 kcal 239 27.3 g 5.8 g 1,285 mg FDC 2708633 ↗
Pizza, cheese, with fruit, thick crust Direct name match 300 gUSDA reference amount 738 kcal 246 28.7 g 6 g 1,425 mg FDC 2708634 ↗
Pizza, cheese, with fruit, thin crust Direct name match 208 gUSDA reference amount 478 kcal 230 19.8 g 4.4 g 930 mg FDC 2708632 ↗
Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from frozen, thin crust Direct name match 218 gUSDA reference amount 523 kcal 240 20.1 g 4.6 g 857 mg FDC 2708624 ↗
Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust Direct name match 266 gUSDA reference amount 644 kcal 242 27.4 g 5.9 g 1,287 mg FDC 2708627 ↗
Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thick crust Direct name match 298 gUSDA reference amount 730 kcal 245 29 g 6.3 g 1,430 mg FDC 2708628 ↗
Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust Direct name match 200 gUSDA reference amount 468 kcal 234 19.9 g 4.4 g 930 mg FDC 2708626 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 142 to 300 grams—a 158-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 351 calories for “cheese, from school lunch, thin crust” to 811 for “stuffed crust.” At a fixed 100 grams, “cheese, with fruit, thin crust” is 230 calories and “stuffed crust” is 274—a fixed-weight separation of 44 calories. For Pizza, cheese, 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 “cheese, from frozen, thick crust”, “cheese, from school lunch, medium crust”, “cheese, stuffed crust”, “cheese, with fruit, thick crust”, and “cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust”. The source formulations contain 16 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include fast food, pizza chain, 14" pizza, cheese topping, regular crust, cheese, mozzarella, low moisture, part-skim, olive oil, and onions, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt. On this Pizza, cheese 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 “Pizza, cheese” cannot resolve the differences between Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust and Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust. 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 142–300 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 “cheese, from frozen, thick crust”, “cheese, from school lunch, medium crust”, “cheese, stuffed crust”, “cheese, with fruit, thick crust”, and “cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    16 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 “Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Pizza, cheese 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 pizza, cheese is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“cheese, from frozen, thick crust”, “cheese, from school lunch, thick crust”, “cheese, with fruit, medium crust”, and “cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust”—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 Pizza, cheese 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 20 exact records behind Pizza, cheese 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

Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thin crust is higher in potassium per 100 g

Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thin crust reports 348 mg versus 111 mg for Pizza, cheese, gluten-free thick crust: a 237 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust is denser; Pizza, cheese, with fruit, thick crust is higher in its source amount

Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust reports 268 kcal per 100 g and 713 kcal in USDA source amount (266 g). Pizza, cheese, with fruit, thick crust reports a lower 246 kcal per 100 g but a higher 738 kcal in USDA source amount (300 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust and Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, medium crust are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Source form (frozen 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 Pizza, cheese source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Best next guide for this exact record Pizza

Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust and Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust vs Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, medium crust

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Source form: frozen 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 Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust vs Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thin crust

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

Follow this evidence path 20 context records in this source topic Pizza

Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thick crust and Pizza, cheese, from frozen, thin crust 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 Fast Food, Pizza Chain, 14" pizza, cheese topping, regular crust

USDA input 21299 appears in 6 of 20 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 100–954 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 Cheese, mozzarella, low moisture, part-skim

USDA input 1029 appears in 4 of 20 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 25–25 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 Potassium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, potassium runs from 111 mg in Pizza, cheese, gluten-free thick crust to 348 mg in Pizza, cheese, from school lunch, thin crust, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path