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Potato tots calories per cup: 216–308 across all 5 named USDA examples

Across all 5 named USDA examples, a cup contains 216–308 calories. Each included example lists 130 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 65 g

153calories

Potato tots, fast food / restaurant

Protein
1.2 g
Carbs
15.8 g
Fat
10 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 5 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 5 exact records in this guide report 108–154 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 166–237 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 tots, begin by separating “Potato tots, fast food / restaurant” from “Potato tots, school.” 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 potato tots records compare at 100 grams

All 5 cited records are shown at the same 100-gram weight. The source servings may differ.

  1. Potato tots, school 166 kcal
    166 kcal
  2. Potato tots, frozen, baked 187 kcal
    187 kcal
  3. Potato tots, fast food / restaurant 236 kcal
    236 kcal
  4. Potato tots, from fresh, fried or baked 237 kcal
    237 kcal
  5. Potato tots, frozen, fried 237 kcal
    237 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 5 named USDA records in view: 5 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 description segment” placed these 5 records together under the exact grouping key “potato tots.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Potato tots, this page can compare 5 named records from FDC 2709512 through FDC 2709513. 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 65 g comparison anchor

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

Composition

71 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “school”; the higher is “fried.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

424 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “school” (147 mg) and “fast food / restaurant” (571 mg).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

These 5 records each use a 65 g serving. Their serving calories compare equal weights within this set. They do not define a calorie range for every potato tots; match the preparation and adjust to your portion.

Important: “Lower” begins with Potato tots, school; “higher” ends with Potato tots, frozen, fried, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every potato tots meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Potato tots, 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 tots nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Potato tots, fast food / restaurant Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 153 kcal 236 1.2 g 1.5 g 371 mg FDC 2709512 ↗
Potato tots, from fresh, fried or baked Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 154 kcal 237 1.2 g 1.5 g 274 mg FDC 2709514 ↗
Potato tots, frozen, baked Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 122 kcal 187 1.3 g 1.6 g 293 mg FDC 2709515 ↗
Potato tots, frozen, fried Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 154 kcal 237 1.2 g 1.5 g 274 mg FDC 2709516 ↗
Potato tots, school Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 108 kcal 166 1.3 g 1.1 g 96 mg FDC 2709513 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

Every selected record uses a 65-gram source amount, so serving-weight differences do not explain the calorie spread inside this set. Their own source servings run from 108 calories for “school” to 154 for “fried.” At a fixed 100 grams, “school” is 166 calories and “fried” is 237—a fixed-weight separation of 71 calories. For Potato tots, 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 “fast food / restaurant”, “from fresh, fried or baked”, “frozen, baked”, “frozen, fried”, and “school”. The source formulations contain 6 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include potato puffs, frozen, unprepared, vegetable oil, nfs, salt, table, and industrial oil as ingredient in food. On this Potato tots 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 tots” cannot resolve the differences between Potato tots, fast food / restaurant and Potato tots, school. 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 65 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 “fast food / restaurant”, “from fresh, fried or baked”, “frozen, baked”, “frozen, fried”, and “school”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    6 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 tots, fast food / restaurant” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Potato tots 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 tots is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“fast food / restaurant”, “from fresh, fried or baked”, “frozen, fried”, and “school”—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 tots 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 5 exact records behind Potato tots 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 tots, school is higher in total sugars per 100 g

Potato tots, school reports 1.3 g versus 0.3 g for Potato tots, fast food / restaurant: a 1 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

5 listed servings each weigh 65 g

The 5 records with a listed serving weight on this page each use 65 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 tots, from fresh, fried or baked and Potato tots, school are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Preparation wording (baked, roasted, or broiled; fried 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 tots 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 tots, from fresh, fried or baked vs Potato tots, school

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: baked, roasted, or broiled; fried 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 tots, frozen, fried vs Potato tots, school

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

Follow this evidence path 5 context records in this source topic French fries and other fried white potatoes

Potato tots, fast food / restaurant and Potato tots, from fresh, fried or baked 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 Potato puffs, frozen, unprepared

USDA input 11398 appears in 4 of 5 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 100–100 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 3 of 5 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 Sodium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, sodium runs from 147 mg in Potato tots, school to 571 mg in Potato tots, fast food / restaurant, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, potassium runs from 242 mg in Potato tots, fast food / restaurant to 419 mg in Potato tots, school, all per 100 g.

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