USDA ingredient referenceUpdated August 22, 2026

Raw ground beef in 7 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Calories, portions and nutrition →Beef, ground, raw

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Raw ground beef” appears as a formulation input in 7 finished-food records. Their calories and nutrients describe those complete foods, not the input label by itself. Use the catalog to choose the closest finished food and open its exact FoodData Central citation.

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Exact nutrition reference, complete food catalog and source methodology

For calories, macros, portions, and household measures, use Beef, ground, raw, the exact cited complete FNDDS profile. This page answers the separate formulation question: where USDA lists input code 21500000 across Feast’s reference corpus.

What the code means

One exact source label across 7 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 21500000 and the source description “Beef, ground, raw.” The code is preserved exactly as it appears in the FNDDS input-food rows. It is not a FoodData Central FDC ID, so this page does not invent a standalone ingredient-record URL.

The strongest concentrations of linked records are currently Meat mixed dishes (7). These are category counts within Feast’s selected 3,850-record corpus. They do not estimate how often the ingredient is eaten, how common it is in recipes generally, or its prevalence across every FNDDS release.

Collection-level interpretation

Grounded ways to understand this source label

These summaries describe the linked FNDDS records in this exact corpus. They do not estimate consumer frequency, market share, or the composition of a meal.

Typical listed-weight range

14.7%–49.4%

The middle half of linked records spans 34.7 percentage points from the 25th to the 75th percentile. This is more resistant to a single extreme record than the full minimum-to-maximum range.

Largest linked category

Meat mixed dishes

7 of 7 linked records (100%) sit in this USDA category. The remainder span 0 other categories.

Most populated share band

5% to under 15%

2 records (29%) fall in this band after repeated rows for code 21500000 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Salt, table

It appears alongside code 21500000 in 7 linked records (100%). Co-occurrence describes database structure, not a required recipe.

Where USDA uses this input

Linked records by source-food category

Each record is counted once even if ingredient code 21500000 appears on more than one input row inside that formulation. The category grouping describes the complete linked foods, not a culinary rule about the ingredient.

USDA survey-food categories

Source-formulation evidence

How the share of listed input weight changes

Repeated rows for code 21500000 inside one food are combined before the percentage is calculated. The denominator is the sum of all positive-weight inputs listed for that USDA formulation.

All linked records, not just the extremes

Where the listed-weight shares fall

Each bar counts complete food records after repeated rows for ingredient code 21500000 have been combined.

Under 1%0 records
0 of 7
1% to under 5%0 records
0 of 7
5% to under 15%2 records
2 of 7
15% to under 30%2 records
2 of 7
30% to under 60%2 records
2 of 7
60% to 100%1 record
1 of 7

The role changes by food type

Median listed share in the largest USDA categories

Category medians summarize source-formulation shares, not nutrient content or consumption frequency.

Listed-weight share distribution across the largest complete-food categories
Complete-food category	Records	Median	Middle 50%	Observed span
Meat mixed dishes	7	28.8%	14.7%–49.4%	8.1%–68.5%

What the spread can tell you

In this collection, “Beef, ground, raw” ranges from 8.1% to 68.5% of listed source-input weight, with a median of 28.8%. That variation can help distinguish a food where the input is a small supporting component from a record where it makes up much more of the standardized source formulation.

The spread remains descriptive. It does not show uncertainty around a single recipe, and a high source-weight share does not automatically mean the food supplies more of any particular nutrient. To compare nutrients, use the complete linked records below.

Verified consumer reference

Household measures and per-100-gram nutrition for Beef, ground, raw

The values here come from Beef, ground, raw, the exact complete FNDDS food cited as USDA FoodData Central record 2705853. Household totals are calculated only from gram weights USDA lists for that same record.

They are not an average of this ingredient collection, and they do not transfer automatically to a different product, recipe, preparation, or portion.

The complete FNDDS record's food code exactly matches source-input code 21500000.

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Nutrient span across the linked foods

Every value in this table describes an entire USDA survey-food record per 100 grams. The values are not the nutrient content of ingredient code 21500000, and differences cannot be attributed to this one input.

Nutrient span across complete food records linked to this source ingredient code
Whole-record nutrient	Observed minimum	Middle 50%	Median	Observed maximum	Linked records
Caloriesper 100 g of the complete food	84 kcal	153–253 kcal	207 kcal	315 kcal	7
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food	3.1 g	8.9–13.3 g	10.4 g	14.3 g	7
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food	1.3 g	4.7–11.2 g	8.4 g	22 g	7
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food	3 g	9.6–18.6 g	15.1 g	22.8 g	7
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food	0.2 g	0.9–2.2 g	1.8 g	3.1 g	7
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food	147 mg	377–654 mg	464 mg	868 mg	7

The minimum and maximum preserve the complete observed span. The median is the middle linked-record value, not a prediction for a meal and not an ingredient-specific nutrient estimate.

Complete linked catalog

All 7 Feast-indexed food records that list code 21500000

This is the complete qualifying-corpus catalog, not a hand-picked sample. Search by food name or USDA category, then open a profile for household portions, Feast’s 21-nutrient panel, formulation details, and its exact FDC citation.

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7 records shown

Complete USDA food-record catalog linked to this source ingredient code
Linked USDA food record	USDA category	Formulation	Listed input weight	Weight share	Calories	Protein	Sodium	Citation
Ripe plantain meat pie, Puerto Rican style	Meat mixed dishes	14 input rows	307.8 g	19.6%	315 kcal	12.8 g	584 mg	FDC 2710140 ↗
Stewed seasoned ground beef, Mexican style	Meat mixed dishes	10 input rows	908 g	68.5%	169 kcal	14.3 g	464 mg	FDC 2706393 ↗
Stewed seasoned ground beef, Puerto Rican style	Meat mixed dishes	7 input rows	226.8 g	51.6%	278 kcal	13.8 g	868 mg	FDC 2706396 ↗
Stewed, seasoned, ground beef with potatoes, Mexican style	Meat mixed dishes	11 input rows	907.2 g	47.3%	137 kcal	10.4 g	333 mg	FDC 2706479 ↗
Stuffed cabbage, with meat and rice, Syrian dish, Puerto Rican style	Meat mixed dishes	10 input rows	113.4 g	8.1%	84 kcal	3.1 g	147 mg	FDC 2710143 ↗
Stuffed cabbage, with meat, Puerto Rican style	Meat mixed dishes	10 input rows	155.9 g	9.7%	207 kcal	9.6 g	723 mg	FDC 2710142 ↗
Stuffed grape leaves with beef and rice	Meat mixed dishes	13 input rows	453.6 g	28.8%	228 kcal	8.2 g	420 mg	FDC 2706621 ↗

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 8 exact records behind Beef, ground, raw (USDA input 21500000). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Stuffed grape leaves with beef and rice is higher in dietary fiber per 100 g

Stuffed grape leaves with beef and rice reports 3.1 g versus 0 g for Beef, ground, raw: a 3.1 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Stewed seasoned ground beef, Puerto Rican style is denser; Stuffed grape leaves with beef and rice is higher in its source amount

Stewed seasoned ground beef, Puerto Rican style reports 278 kcal per 100 g and 417 kcal in USDA source amount (150 g). Stuffed grape leaves with beef and rice reports a lower 228 kcal per 100 g but a higher 461 kcal in USDA source amount (202 g).

Choose the record before reading the number

Stewed seasoned ground beef, Mexican style and Stewed, seasoned, ground beef with potatoes, Mexican style are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes the exact source description 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 Beef, ground, raw (USDA input 21500000), each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Best next guide for this exact record Stewed seasoned ground beef

Stewed seasoned ground beef, Mexican style and Stewed seasoned ground beef, Puerto Rican style are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Stuffed cabbage with meat

Stuffed cabbage, with meat and rice, Syrian dish, Puerto Rican style and Stuffed cabbage, with meat, Puerto Rican style are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Stewed seasoned ground beef, Mexican style vs Stewed, seasoned, ground beef with potatoes, Mexican style

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Calories: 169 versus 137 kcal per 100 g; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 7 context records in this source topic Meat mixed dishes

Stuffed grape leaves with beef and rice and Ripe plantain meat pie, Puerto Rican style 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, drinking

USDA input 14411 appears in 5 of 8 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 118.5–355.5 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 A formulation detail that separates records Garlic, raw

USDA input 11215 appears in 6 of 8 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 3–9 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 Test a nearby record choice Beef, ground vs Beef, ground, raw

Beef, ground, raw is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Preparation wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus raw; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path

Method and provenance

How this ingredient-centered page was calculated

Feast begins with its pinned 3,850-record USDA FoodData Central Survey Foods reference corpus for FNDDS 2021–2023. Each exact food profile retains its FDC identifier, source-food description, nutrient values, household measures, and positive-weight input-food rows. This page groups those input rows by the exact ingredient code 21500000; it does not merge similar-looking ingredient names or infer synonyms.

The distinct-record count deduplicates by FDC food record. When the same code is listed more than once inside one source formulation, its input weights are added before the listed-weight share is calculated. Category counts also count each food once. The 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile use the sorted one-share-per-food values with linear interpolation between adjacent ranks when a percentile falls between two records.

USDA’s current FNDDS documentation explains that many nutrient profiles are generated with calculation recipes designed to represent multiple variants, and that their input codes are not necessarily the exact ingredients in a retail product or an ingredient declaration. It also documents moisture and nutrient-retention adjustments. Feast therefore treats these rows as transparent source-calculation evidence—not as a reverse-engineered recipe.

The complete-food nutrient table uses each linked record’s available published per-100-gram values so the denominator remains consistent; its middle-50% ranges use the same interpolated percentile method. It is presented for record selection and comparison only. No nutrient value is reassigned to the ingredient, no causal effect is inferred, and no “healthy” score is manufactured from the collection.

How to apply the evidence to a meal

Use the ingredient as a discovery clue. Compare the linked record names, food categories, preparation wording, source formulation, and portion measures. If a close record exists, its complete profile can provide a defensible reference estimate. If the meal differs materially in cooking fat, sauce, ingredient ratios, or portion size, keep looking or use recipe weights, a package label, or an editable photo estimate instead.

These pages are educational source indexes. They do not provide medical advice, personalized nutrient targets, food-safety guidance, or a recipe. If a clinician has given you individualized dietary instructions, follow that guidance and use the most specific current source available for the food you actually consumed.