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Potato, home fries calories per cup: 346–426 across all 4 named USDA examples

Across all 4 named USDA examples, a cup contains 346–426 calories. Each included example lists 200 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 1 potato, any size · 100 g

185calories

Potato, home fries, from fresh

Protein
2 g
Carbs
18.8 g
Fat
11.5 g

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The 4 exact records in this guide report 173–213 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 173–213 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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For Potato, home fries, begin by separating “Potato, home fries, from fresh” from “Potato, home fries, with vegetables.” 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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How potato, home fries records compare at 100 grams

All 4 cited records are shown at the same 100-gram weight. The source servings may differ.

  1. Potato, home fries, with vegetables 173 kcal
    173 kcal
  2. Potato, home fries, from fresh 185 kcal
    185 kcal
  3. Potato, home fries, ready-to-heat 197 kcal
    197 kcal
  4. Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food 213 kcal
    213 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 4 named USDA records in view: 4 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 4 records together under the exact grouping key “potato home fries.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Potato, home fries, this page can compare 4 named records from FDC 2709474 through FDC 2709476. 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 100 g comparison anchor

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

Composition

40 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “with vegetables”; the higher is “from restaurant / fast food.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

117 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “from fresh” (279 mg) and “from restaurant / fast food” (396 mg).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

These 4 records each use a 100 g serving. Their serving calories compare equal weights within this set. They do not define a calorie range for every potato, home fries; match the preparation and adjust to your portion.

Important: “Lower” begins with Potato, home fries, with vegetables; “higher” ends with Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every potato, home fries meal.

Full comparison

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For Potato, home fries, 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, home fries nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Potato, home fries, from fresh Direct name match 100 gUSDA reference amount 185 kcal 185 2 g 1.6 g 279 mg FDC 2709474 ↗
Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food Direct name match 100 gUSDA reference amount 213 kcal 213 1.9 g 1.6 g 396 mg FDC 2709473 ↗
Potato, home fries, ready-to-heat Direct name match 100 gUSDA reference amount 197 kcal 197 1.9 g 1.6 g 340 mg FDC 2709475 ↗
Potato, home fries, with vegetables Direct name match 100 gUSDA reference amount 173 kcal 173 1.7 g 1.5 g 382 mg FDC 2709476 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

Every selected record uses a 100-gram source amount, so serving-weight differences do not explain the calorie spread inside this set. Their own source servings run from 173 calories for “with vegetables” to 213 for “from restaurant / fast food.” At a fixed 100 grams, “with vegetables” is 173 calories and “from restaurant / fast food” is 213—a fixed-weight separation of 40 calories. For Potato, home fries, 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 “home fries, from fresh”, “home fries, from restaurant / fast food”, “home fries, ready-to-heat”, and “home fries, with vegetables”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes potatoes, baked, flesh and skin, without salt, potatoes, baked, flesh, without salt, and salt, table; differentiating rows include vegetable oil, nfs, industrial oil as ingredient in food, onions, raw, and peppers, bell, green, raw. On this Potato, home fries 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, home fries” cannot resolve the differences between Potato, home fries, from fresh and Potato, home fries, with vegetables. 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 100 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 “home fries, from fresh”, “home fries, from restaurant / fast food”, “home fries, ready-to-heat”, and “home fries, with vegetables”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    Shared source rows include potatoes, baked, flesh and skin, without salt and potatoes, baked, flesh, without salt; rows that vary across the set include vegetable oil, nfs, industrial oil as ingredient in food, and onions, raw. Presence is inspectable evidence, not proof of nutrient causation.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Potato, home fries, from fresh” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Potato, home fries 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, home fries is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“home fries, from fresh”, “home fries, from restaurant / fast food”, “home fries, ready-to-heat”, and “home fries, with vegetables”—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, home fries 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 4 exact records behind Potato, home fries 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, home fries, with vegetables is higher in total sugars per 100 g

Potato, home fries, with vegetables reports 1.8 g versus 1.2 g for Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food: a 0.6 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

4 listed servings each weigh 100 g

The 4 records with a listed serving weight on this page each use 100 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, home fries, from fresh and Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Source form (fresh 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 Potato, home fries 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, home fries, from fresh vs Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food

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 Compare two records on this page Potato, home fries, from fresh vs Potato, home fries, with vegetables

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 A formulation detail that separates records Vegetable oil, NFS

USDA input 82101000 appears in 3 of 4 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 13–18 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 Industrial oil as ingredient in food

USDA input 99998210 appears in 1 of 4 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 18–18 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 4 context records in this source topic French fries and other fried white potatoes

Potato, home fries, from fresh and Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food 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 Inspect an exact record Potato, home fries, from fresh

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2709474 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

Follow this evidence path Check another exact record Potato, home fries, from restaurant / fast food

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2709473 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

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