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Potato, hash brown calories per cup: 304–472 across all 9 named USDA examples

Across all 9 named USDA examples, a cup contains 304–472 calories. Each included example lists 160 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data.

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Preparation and portion

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Estimated for 80 g

218calories

Potato, hash brown, from fast food

Protein
2.1 g
Carbs
23.1 g
Fat
13.6 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 9 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 9 exact records in this guide report 152–236 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 190–295 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 Potato, hash brown, begin by separating “Potato, hash brown, from fast food” from “Potato, hash brown, ready-to-heat, with cheese.” 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 potato, hash brown 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: Potato, hash brown, from fresh 190 kcal
    190 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Potato, hash brown, from school lunch 218 kcal
    218 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Potato, hash brown, ready-to-heat, with cheese 249 kcal
    249 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Potato, hash brown, from restaurant 272 kcal
    272 kcal
  5. Maximum: Potato, hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese 295 kcal
    295 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. All sit within “French fries and other fried white potatoes.” 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 9 records together under the exact grouping key “potato hash brown.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Potato, hash brown, this page can compare 9 named records from FDC 2709478 through FDC 2709487. 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

A shared 80 g comparison anchor

Equal source weights make the selected Potato, hash brown serving totals easier to compare, but the eaten portion still has to be measured or estimated.

Composition

105 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “hash brown, from fresh”; the higher is “hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

412 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “from school lunch” (169 mg) and “hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese” (581 mg).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

These 9 records each use a 80 g serving. Their serving calories compare equal weights within this set. They do not define a calorie range for every potato, hash brown; match the preparation and adjust to your portion.

Important: “Lower” begins with Potato, hash brown, from fresh; “higher” ends with Potato, hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every potato, hash brown meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Potato, hash brown, 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 Potato, hash brown nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Potato, hash brown, from fast food Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 218 kcal 272 2.1 g 2.2 g 453 mg FDC 2709478 ↗
Potato, hash brown, from fast food, with cheese Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 236 kcal 295 4.8 g 1.8 g 465 mg FDC 2709479 ↗
Potato, hash brown, from fresh Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 152 kcal 190 1.6 g 1.3 g 274 mg FDC 2709483 ↗
Potato, hash brown, from fresh, with cheese Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 178 kcal 223 4.1 g 1.1 g 311 mg FDC 2709484 ↗
Potato, hash brown, from restaurant Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 218 kcal 272 2.1 g 2.2 g 453 mg FDC 2709480 ↗
Potato, hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 236 kcal 295 4.8 g 1.8 g 465 mg FDC 2709481 ↗
Potato, hash brown, from school lunch Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 174 kcal 218 2.1 g 2.6 g 135 mg FDC 2709482 ↗
Potato, hash brown, ready-to-heat Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 174 kcal 217 2.1 g 2.6 g 318 mg FDC 2709486 ↗
Potato, hash brown, ready-to-heat, with cheese Direct name match 80 gUSDA reference amount 199 kcal 249 4.8 g 2.1 g 352 mg FDC 2709487 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

Every selected record uses a 80-gram source amount, so serving-weight differences do not explain the calorie spread inside this set. Their own source servings run from 152 calories for “hash brown, from fresh” to 236 for “hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese.” At a fixed 100 grams, “hash brown, from fresh” is 190 calories and “hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese” is 295—a fixed-weight separation of 105 calories. For Potato, hash brown, 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 “hash brown, from fast food”, “hash brown, from fresh”, “hash brown, from restaurant”, “hash brown, from school lunch”, and “hash brown, ready-to-heat, with cheese”. The source formulations contain 7 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include salt, table, cheese, cheddar, fast foods, potatoes, hash browns, round pieces or patty, and potatoes, hash brown, frozen, plain, prepared, pan fried in canola oil. On this Potato, hash brown 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 “Potato, hash brown” cannot resolve the differences between Potato, hash brown, from fast food and Potato, hash brown, ready-to-heat, with cheese. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.

  1. 01

    A shared source weight

    Every selected record uses 80 grams. Inside this set, serving-calorie differences therefore reflect the published composition rather than a change in source weight.

  2. 02

    The words that split the family

    Representative record-level distinctions include “hash brown, from fast food”, “hash brown, from fresh”, “hash brown, from restaurant”, “hash brown, from school lunch”, and “hash brown, ready-to-heat, with cheese”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    7 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 “Potato, hash brown, from fast food” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Potato, hash brown 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 potato, hash brown is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“hash brown, from fast food”, “hash brown, from fresh, with cheese”, “hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese”, and “hash brown, ready-to-heat, with cheese”—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 Potato, hash brown 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 9 exact records behind Potato, hash brown 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

Potato, hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese is higher in calcium per 100 g

Potato, hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese reports 134 mg versus 9 mg for Potato, hash brown, from fresh: a 125 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

9 listed servings each weigh 80 g

The 9 records with a listed serving weight on this page each use 80 g. Their serving totals therefore compare equal weights, even if the household labels differ. Match the preparation and adjust the weight to the amount you eat.

Choose the record before reading the number

Potato, hash brown, from fast food and Potato, hash brown, from fresh are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Source form (No matching controlled term in the source name versus fresh) 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 Potato, hash brown 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 Potato, hash brown, from fast food vs Potato, hash brown, from fresh

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

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Potato, hash brown, from fresh vs Potato, hash brown, from restaurant

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

Follow this evidence path 9 context records in this source topic French fries and other fried white potatoes

Potato, hash brown, from fast food and Potato, hash brown, from fast food, with cheese 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 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.4–1 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 Cheese, cheddar

USDA input 1009 appears in 4 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 20–20 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 9 mg in Potato, hash brown, from fresh to 134 mg in Potato, hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, sodium runs from 169 mg in Potato, hash brown, from school lunch to 581 mg in Potato, hash brown, from restaurant, with cheese, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path