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Sweet potato tots calories per cup: 248–312 across all 3 named USDA examples

Across all 3 named USDA examples, a cup contains 248–312 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

124calories

Sweet potato tots

Protein
1.5 g
Carbs
24.2 g
Fat
6.1 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 3 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 3 exact records in this guide report 124–156 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 191–240 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 Sweet potato tots, begin by separating “Sweet potato tots” from “Sweet 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 sweet potato tots records compare at 100 grams

All 3 cited records are shown at the same 100-gram weight. The source servings may differ.

  1. Sweet potato tots 191 kcal
    191 kcal
  2. Sweet potato tots, school 192 kcal
    192 kcal
  3. Sweet potato tots, fast food / restaurant 240 kcal
    240 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 3 named USDA records in view: 3 direct matches. All sit within “Fried vegetables.” 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 3 records together under the exact grouping key “sweet potato tots.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Sweet potato tots, this page can compare 3 named records from FDC 2709715 through FDC 2709717. 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

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 Sweet potato tots serving totals easier to compare, but the eaten portion still has to be measured or estimated.

Composition

49 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “Sweet potato tots”; the higher is “fast food / restaurant.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

161 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “school” (154 mg) and “Sweet potato tots” (315 mg).

Observed source examples

Three landmarks inside this source set—not universal endpoints

These 3 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 sweet potato tots; match the preparation and adjust to your portion.

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

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Sweet 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 Sweet potato tots nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Sweet potato tots Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 124 kcal 191 1.5 g 3.9 g 205 mg FDC 2709715 ↗
Sweet potato tots, fast food / restaurant Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 156 kcal 240 1.4 g 3.6 g 192 mg FDC 2709716 ↗
Sweet potato tots, school Direct name match 65 gUSDA reference amount 125 kcal 192 1.5 g 3.9 g 100 mg FDC 2709717 ↗

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 124 calories for “Sweet potato tots” to 156 for “fast food / restaurant.” At a fixed 100 grams, “Sweet potato tots” is 191 calories and “fast food / restaurant” is 240—a fixed-weight separation of 49 calories. For Sweet 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 “Sweet potato tots”, “fast food / restaurant”, and “school”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes sweet potatoes, french fried, frozen as packaged, salt added in processing; differentiating rows include salt, table and industrial oil as ingredient in food. On this Sweet 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 “Sweet potato tots” cannot resolve the differences between Sweet potato tots and Sweet 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 “Sweet potato tots”, “fast food / restaurant”, and “school”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    Shared source rows include sweet potatoes, french fried, frozen as packaged, salt added in processing; rows that vary across the set include salt, table and industrial oil as ingredient in food. Presence is inspectable evidence, not proof of nutrient causation.

  4. 04

    The unresolved plate

    Even “Sweet potato tots” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Sweet 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 sweet potato tots is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“Sweet potato tots”, “fast food / restaurant”, 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 Sweet 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 3 exact records behind Sweet 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

Sweet potato tots is higher in sodium per 100 g

Sweet potato tots reports 315 mg versus 154 mg for Sweet potato tots, school: a 161 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

3 listed servings each weigh 65 g

The 3 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

Sweet potato tots, fast food / restaurant and Sweet potato tots, school are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Source context (restaurant or fast food versus school) 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 Sweet 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 Sweet potato tots, fast food / restaurant vs Sweet potato tots, school

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Source context: restaurant or fast food versus school; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Sweet potato tots vs Sweet potato tots, fast food / restaurant

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

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Salt, table

USDA input 2047 appears in 2 of 3 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.4–0.4 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 3 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 7–7 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 3 context records in this source topic Fried vegetables

Sweet potato tots and Sweet potato tots, fast food / restaurant 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 Sodium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, sodium runs from 154 mg in Sweet potato tots, school to 315 mg in Sweet potato tots, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Sweet potato tots

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2709715 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

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