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Tortellini calories per cup: 207–383 across all 10 named USDA examples

Across all 10 named USDA examples, a cup contains 207–383 calories. Their listed weights span 122–250 g, so each calorie value is calculated from that example's own gram weight and published calories per 100 g.

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Estimated for 1 cup · 250 g

373calories

Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce

Protein
15.5 g
Carbs
57.5 g
Fat
9.1 g

These values scale the selected reference food by weight. Ingredients, preparation, and portion size can change your meal’s estimate.

FoodData Central Survey Foods (FNDDS) · FDC 2708787 Full nutrition profile →

Compare all 10 food records, nutrition tables and USDA sources

The 10 exact records in this guide report 207–383 calories in the records' own listed source servings and 89–236 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 Tortellini, begin by separating “Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce” from “Tortellini, spinach-filled, with tomato sauce.” 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 10 linked records.

Equal-weight view

How tortellini records compare at 100 grams

Five rank landmarks are shown from all 10 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: Tortellini, meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned 89 kcal
    89 kcal
  2. 25th-ranked landmark: Tortellini, spinach-filled, with tomato sauce 121 kcal
    121 kcal
  3. Median-ranked landmark: Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce 149 kcal
    149 kcal
  4. 75th-ranked landmark: Tortellini, spinach-filled, no sauce 188 kcal
    188 kcal
  5. Maximum: Tortellini, cheese-filled, no sauce 236 kcal
    236 kcal

Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories

What this page compares

Named source records, not one universal meal

This guide keeps 10 named USDA records in view: 10 direct matches. All sit within “Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese.” 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 10 records together under the exact grouping key “tortellini.” That rule determines membership before any nutrition result is read.

For Tortellini, this page can compare 10 named records from FDC 2708787 through FDC 2708793. 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

122–250 g before composition

The largest source amount is 2.0× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.

Composition

147 kcal separates the fixed-weight endpoints

The lower endpoint is “meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned”; the higher is “cheese-filled, no sauce.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.

Discriminator

483 mg sodium gap per 100 g

Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “cheese-filled, no sauce” (156 mg) and “with vinaigrette dressing” (639 mg).

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 tortellini.

Important: “Lower” begins with Tortellini, meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned; “higher” ends with Tortellini, cheese-filled, with cream sauce, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every tortellini meal.

Full comparison

Compare every selected FNDDS record

For Tortellini, 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 Tortellini nutrition guide
Exact source record Match Source amount Calories kcal / 100 g Protein Fiber Sodium USDA
Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce Direct name match 250 gUSDA reference amount 373 kcal 149 15.5 g 4 g 698 mg FDC 2708787 ↗
Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce, canned Direct name match 247 gUSDA reference amount 225 kcal 91 8.6 g 2 g 753 mg FDC 2708788 ↗
Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with vinaigrette dressing Direct name match 169 gUSDA reference amount 326 kcal 193 10.5 g 1 g 1,080 mg FDC 2708789 ↗
Tortellini, cheese-filled, no sauce Direct name match 150 gUSDA reference amount 354 kcal 236 15.6 g 2.3 g 234 mg FDC 2708792 ↗
Tortellini, cheese-filled, with cream sauce Direct name match 250 gUSDA reference amount 383 kcal 153 14.6 g 1.3 g 1,440 mg FDC 2708791 ↗
Tortellini, meat-filled, no sauce Direct name match 190 gUSDA reference amount 361 kcal 190 23.4 g 1.1 g 825 mg FDC 2708790 ↗
Tortellini, meat-filled, with tomato sauce Direct name match 210 gUSDA reference amount 281 kcal 134 13.9 g 2.1 g 1,298 mg FDC 2708785 ↗
Tortellini, meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned Direct name match 233 gUSDA reference amount 207 kcal 89 7.5 g 3.3 g 694 mg FDC 2708786 ↗
Tortellini, spinach-filled, no sauce Direct name match 122 gUSDA reference amount 229 kcal 188 10.9 g 1.1 g 245 mg FDC 2708794 ↗
Tortellini, spinach-filled, with tomato sauce Direct name match 200 gUSDA reference amount 242 kcal 121 9 g 2.4 g 1,192 mg FDC 2708793 ↗

Portion analysis

Serving total and calorie density answer different questions

The listed source amounts run from 122 to 250 grams—a 128-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 207 calories for “meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned” to 383 for “with cream sauce.” At a fixed 100 grams, “meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned” is 89 calories and “cheese-filled, no sauce” is 236—a fixed-weight separation of 147 calories. For Tortellini, 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 “cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce”, “cheese-filled, meatless, with vinaigrette dressing”, “meat-filled, no sauce”, “meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned”, and “spinach-filled, with tomato sauce”. The source formulations contain 39 distinct ingredient codes; examples that appear in only part of the set include cheese, parmesan, grated, beverages, water, tap, municipal, salt, table, and mortadella, beef, pork. On this Tortellini 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 “Tortellini” cannot resolve the differences between Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce and Tortellini, spinach-filled, with tomato sauce. 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 122–250 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 “cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce”, “cheese-filled, meatless, with vinaigrette dressing”, “meat-filled, no sauce”, “meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned”, and “spinach-filled, with tomato sauce”. Those phrases are evidence for choosing a record, not decorative subtitle text.

  3. 03

    Formulation evidence, with limits

    39 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 “Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce” leaves the eaten grams and unnamed oils, sauces, toppings, substitutions, or leftovers unresolved. Preserve those Tortellini 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 tortellini is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce”, “cheese-filled, no sauce”, “meat-filled, with tomato sauce”, and “spinach-filled, with tomato sauce”—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 Tortellini 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.

Explore this meal family

2 more-specific tortellini guides

Use a focused guide when its description matches your meal. Each one keeps its own exact source records and links back to this broader family.

Focused guide Tortellini, cheese-filled Tortellini, cheese-filled: compare 5 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations. Focused guide Tortellini, meat-filled Tortellini, meat-filled: compare 3 exact USDA records by source calories, 100-gram values, portions, and citations.

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 10 exact records behind Tortellini 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

Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce is higher in total sugars per 100 g

Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce reports 3 g versus 0.2 g for Tortellini, meat-filled, no sauce: a 2.8 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with vinaigrette dressing is denser; Tortellini, cheese-filled, with cream sauce is higher in its source amount

Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with vinaigrette dressing reports 193 kcal per 100 g and 326 kcal in USDA source amount (169 g). Tortellini, cheese-filled, with cream sauce reports a lower 153 kcal per 100 g but a higher 383 kcal in USDA source amount (250 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce” from “Tortellini, spinach-filled, with tomato sauce”

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

10 context records in this source topic Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese

Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce and Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce, canned 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 Beverages, water, tap, municipal

USDA input 14429 appears in 7 of 10 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 14.8–75 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, parmesan, grated

USDA input 1032 appears in 8 of 10 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.1–30.5 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 Potassium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, potassium runs from 21 mg in Tortellini, cheese-filled, no sauce to 175 mg in Tortellini, meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned, all per 100 g.

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

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 14 mg in Tortellini, meat-filled, with tomato sauce, canned to 111 mg in Tortellini, cheese-filled, no sauce, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2708787 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

Follow this evidence path 10 records share this broad food family Pasta, rice & grains: broader category context

Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce and Tortellini, cheese-filled, meatless, with tomato sauce, canned, plus 8 more are assigned to Feast’s Pasta, rice & grains editorial category. Use the category page to compare nearby foods at a broad level; keep the exact USDA descriptions on this page for record-level decisions.

Follow this evidence path