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Sausage calories per cup: 316–326 across all 4 named USDA examples

Across all 4 named USDA examples, a cup contains 316–326 calories. Their listed weights span 249–252 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.

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Preparation and portion

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Estimated for 311 g

407calories

Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce

Protein
16.4 g
Carbs
47.6 g
Fat
17.7 g

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Compare all 4 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 4 exact records in this guide report 242–407 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 127–131 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 Sausage, begin by separating “Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce” from “Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy.” 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 sausage records compare at 100 grams

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

  1. Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce 127 kcal
    127 kcal
  2. Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy 128 kcal
    128 kcal
  3. Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy 128 kcal
    128 kcal
  4. Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce 131 kcal
    131 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 “Meat mixed dishes.” 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 4 records together under the exact grouping key “sausage.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Sausage, this page can compare 4 named records from FDC 2706639 through FDC 2706643. 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

189–311 g before composition

The largest source amount is 1.6× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

4 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”; the higher is “and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

1.5 g protein gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “and/or dark-green leafy; gravy” (3.7 g) and “and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce” (5.3 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 sausage.

Important: “Lower” begins with Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy; “higher” ends with Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every sausage meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Sausage, 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 Sausage nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 311 gUSDA reference amount 407 kcal 131 16.4 g 4.4 g 1,185 mg FDC 2706639 ↗
Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce Direct name match 311 gUSDA reference amount 395 kcal 127 16.2 g 4.7 g 1,207 mg FDC 2706640 ↗
Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 189 gUSDA reference amount 242 kcal 128 7.1 g 2.5 g 665 mg FDC 2706644 ↗
Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy Direct name match 189 gUSDA reference amount 242 kcal 128 7.1 g 2.6 g 675 mg FDC 2706643 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 189 to 311 grams—a 122-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 242 calories for “and dark-green leafy; gravy” to 407 for “and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce.” At a fixed 100 grams, “and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce” is 127 calories and “and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce” is 131—a fixed-weight separation of 4 calories. For Sausage, 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 “noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”, “noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”, “potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy”, and “potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes pork sausage, link/patty, cooked, pan-fried, salt, table, and vegetable oil, nfs; differentiating rows include beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt, broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, and corn, sweet, yellow, frozen, kernels cut off cob, boiled, drained, without salt. On this Sausage 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 “Sausage” cannot resolve the differences between Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce and Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy. 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 189–311 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 “noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”, “noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”, “potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy”, and “potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    Shared source rows include pork sausage, link/patty, cooked, pan-fried and salt, table; rows that vary across the set include beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt, broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, and carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt. Presence is inspectable evidence, not proof of nutrient causation.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Sausage, …, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Sausage 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 sausage is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”, “noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce”, “potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy”, and “potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”—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 Sausage 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 Sausage 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

Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce is higher in iron per 100 g

Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce reports 1.2 mg versus 0.4 mg for Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy: a 0.8 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy is denser; Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce is higher in its source amount

Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy reports 128 kcal per 100 g and 242 kcal in USDA source amount (189 g). Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce reports a lower 127 kcal per 100 g but a higher 395 kcal in USDA source amount (311 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce” from “Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; gravy”

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 evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Sausage source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

A formulation detail that separates records Beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt

USDA input 11061 appears in 2 of 4 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–10 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 A formulation detail that separates records Broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

USDA input 11093 appears in 2 of 4 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 10–10 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 4 context records in this source topic Meat mixed dishes

Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce and Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce 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 Put the observed spread in corpus context Iron: density and serving context

In this page’s records, iron runs from 0.4 mg in Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy to 1.2 mg in Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Sausage, noodles, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706639 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

Follow this evidence path Check another exact record Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706640 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

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

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 12 mg in Sausage, potatoes, and vegetables excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy; gravy to 17 mg in Sausage, noodles, and vegetables including carrots, broccoli, and/or dark-green leafy; tomato-based sauce, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path