Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition
1 piece, large pizza (119 g) of pizza, cheese, restaurant/fast food, medium crust has about 317 calories. Choose your preparation and adjust the amount below.
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Estimated for 1 piece, NFS · 119 g
317calories
Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust
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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 2708616 Full nutrition profile →
Choose the pizza's crust, toppings, and preparation, then use the slice weight or the share you ate. Slice count alone does not describe a pizza's size or how it was cut.
A worked portion example
Illustrative calculation: 2 pieces from the large pizza weighs 238 g using the linked record's portion weight × 2. At 266 calories per 100 g, 238 × 266 ÷ 100 = about 633 calories and 27.1 g protein. Both slices use the 119 g measure for this medium-crust cheese pizza. They do not define two slices from every large pizza.
Check the exact food and household measure →The medium-crust restaurant cheese example lists a piece from a medium pizza as 86 g and a piece from a large pizza as 119 g. Your restaurant may cut a pizza into a different number of pieces. Weigh the slices or use the restaurant's specified fraction when you have it.
Thin-crust cheese pizza, thick-crust vegetable pizza, and frozen pepperoni pizza are separate examples. Pick the closest complete pizza before scaling the portion. Only count added cheese or toppings separately when they are extras beyond that preparation.
A box may list nutrition for a fraction of the pizza rather than a single piece as you cut it. Multiply by the fraction actually eaten. Dipping sauce and sides are separate, and a frozen pizza's label is more specific than a general restaurant-pizza entry.
Editorial update: . Portion examples are calculations from the linked USDA records.
Pizza comparisons become misleading when slice count hides slice weight. This guide uses exact USDA records to show how source serving mass, crust style, toppings, and preparation context combine to move the reported total.
Across all 9 named USDA examples, a surface inch contains 12–24 calories. Their listed weights span 5–9 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.
Match my meal
For Pizza, begin by separating “Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust” from “Pizza with extra meat, thick 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 9 linked records.
Equal-weight view
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.
Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories
What this page compares
This guide keeps 9 named USDA records in view: 9 direct matches. All sit within “Pizza.” The exact descriptions remain the unit of comparison; the familiar heading is only the doorway into the evidence.
For Pizza, this page can compare 9 named records from FDC 2708615 through FDC 2708659. 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 1.9× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.
Composition
The lower endpoint is “cheese, …, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust”; the higher is “from restaurant or fast food, medium crust.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.
Discriminator
Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “thick crust” (1.8 g) and “from frozen, thin crust” (2.9 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 pizza.
458kcal
172 g source amount · 266 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record699kcal
248 g source amount · 282 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record923kcal
332 g source amount · 278 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact recordImportant: “Lower” begins with Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust; “higher” ends with Pizza with extra meat, thick crust, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every pizza meal.
Full comparison
For Pizza, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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, 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 ↗ |
| 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 with pepperoni, from frozen, thin crust | Direct name match | 194 gUSDA reference amount | 532 kcal | 274 | 23.7 g | 5.6 g | 1,015 mg | FDC 2708635 ↗ |
| Pizza with pepperoni, from frozen, thick crust | Direct name match | 288 gUSDA reference amount | 795 kcal | 276 | 30.8 g | 6 g | 1,397 mg | FDC 2708637 ↗ |
| Pizza with pepperoni, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust | Direct name match | 248 gUSDA reference amount | 699 kcal | 282 | 29 g | 5.7 g | 1,538 mg | FDC 2708640 ↗ |
| Pizza with extra meat, thick crust | Direct name match | 332 gUSDA reference amount | 923 kcal | 278 | 44.2 g | 6 g | 1,896 mg | FDC 2708659 ↗ |
Portion analysis
The listed source amounts run from 172 to 332 grams—a 160-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 458 calories for “cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust” to 923 for “thick crust.” At a fixed 100 grams, “cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust” is 234 calories and “from restaurant or fast food, medium crust” is 282—a fixed-weight separation of 48 calories. For Pizza, 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 “cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust”, “cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thick crust”, “cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thick crust”, “from frozen, thick crust”, and “thick crust”. The source formulations contain 11 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include fast food, pizza chain, 14" pizza, cheese topping, regular crust, fast food, pizza chain, 14" pizza, cheese topping, thick crust, pepperoni, beef and pork, sliced, and onions, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt. On this Pizza 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 “Pizza” cannot resolve the differences between Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust and Pizza with extra meat, thick crust. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.
Slice count is not a common denominator; diameter, cut, and crust produce different gram weights.
Thin, medium, thick, gluten-free, whole-wheat, and stuffed crusts are represented as distinct records.
Extra cheese or extra meat can change the profile even when the outer dimensions look similar.
Frozen, restaurant, fast-food, and school-lunch records describe different reference formulations and portions.
Record matching
Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that pizza is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust”, “cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust”, “from frozen, thin crust”, and “thick 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.
Decision support from the exact records on this page
These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 9 exact records behind Pizza 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 with pepperoni, from frozen, thin crust reports 2.9 g versus 1.8 g for Pizza with extra meat, thick crust: a 1.1 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.
Inspect the underlying evidenceThe denominator changes the answer
Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust reports 266 kcal per 100 g and 458 kcal in USDA source amount (172 g). Pizza, cheese, with vegetables, from restaurant or fast food, thick crust reports a lower 245 kcal per 100 g but a higher 730 kcal in USDA source amount (298 g).
Record identity is part of the estimate
These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.
Inspect the underlying evidenceContextual knowledge graph
For Pizza source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.
Pizza with pepperoni, from frozen, thick crust and Pizza with pepperoni, from frozen, thin crust are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.
Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Pizza with pepperoni, from restaurant or fast foodPizza with pepperoni, from restaurant or fast food, medium crust is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.
Follow this evidence path 9 context records in this source topic PizzaPizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, thin crust and Pizza, cheese, from restaurant or fast food, medium 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 Test a nearby record choice Pizza with pepperoni, from frozen, thick crust vs Pizza, with pepperoni, from school lunch, medium crustPizza with pepperoni, from frozen, thick crust is held as one side of the comparison. 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 Test a nearby record choice Pizza with pepperoni, from frozen, thick crust vs Pizza with pepperoni, from school lunch, thin crustPizza with pepperoni, from frozen, thick crust is held as one side of the comparison. 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 A formulation detail that separates records Fast Food, Pizza Chain, 14" pizza, cheese topping, regular crustUSDA input 21299 appears in 3 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 100–691 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 Fast Food, Pizza Chain, 14" pizza, cheese topping, thick crustUSDA input 21300 appears in 3 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 100–1,060 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