USDA ingredient referenceUpdated August 22, 2026

Fat, chicken in 11 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Fat, chicken” appears as a formulation input in 11 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

This page helps you find complete foods that include Fat, chicken in USDA’s nutrition data. Choose the record that most closely matches what you ate; Feast does not turn a collection average into a standalone ingredient estimate.

What the code means

One exact source label across 11 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 4542 and the source description “Fat, chicken.” 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 Poultry mixed dishes (4), Sausages (2), Turnovers and other grain-based items (2). 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

1.3%–6.3%

The middle half of linked records spans 5 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

Poultry mixed dishes

4 of 11 linked records (36%) sit in this USDA category. The remainder span 5 other categories.

Most populated share band

1% to under 5%

4 records (36%) fall in this band after repeated rows for code 4542 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Salt, table

It appears alongside code 4542 in 9 linked records (82%). 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 4542 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 4542 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 4542 have been combined.

Under 1%3 records
3 of 11
1% to under 5%4 records
4 of 11
5% to under 15%4 records
4 of 11
15% to under 30%0 records
0 of 11
30% to under 60%0 records
0 of 11
60% to 100%0 records
0 of 11

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
Poultry mixed dishes	4	2.3%	0.3%–6.4%	0.3%–13.1%
Sausages	2	6.8%	6.7%–6.9%	6.5%–7%
Turnovers and other grain-based items	2	2.4%	2.4%–2.4%	2.4%–2.4%

What the spread can tell you

In this collection, “Fat, chicken” ranges from 0.3% to 13.1% of listed source-input weight, with a median of 2.4%. 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.

Important nutrition boundary

This collection does not support a verified standalone nutrition answer for “Fat, chicken.”

No unique exact food-code match or reviewed sole-source bridge qualifies for a direct consumer answer. Feast therefore does not treat the collection median, minimum, maximum, or an arbitrary similar record as the nutrition of this input.

The table below describes the complete linked foods per 100 grams. Use it to find a closer finished-food record, not to infer what this formulation input supplies on its own.

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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 4542, 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	111 kcal	126–235 kcal	226 kcal	841 kcal	11
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food	1.9 g	7.9–15.9 g	9.8 g	20 g	11
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food	0 g	7.1–18.1 g	13.2 g	21 g	11
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food	3 g	6.2–15 g	11.1 g	92.2 g	11
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food	0 g	0.1–1.1 g	0.4 g	1.4 g	11
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food	296 mg	413–583 mg	418 mg	1,050 mg	11

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 11 Feast-indexed food records that list code 4542

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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11 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
Animal fat or drippings	Butter and animal fats	6 input rows	6 g	6%	841 kcal	2.2 g	604 mg	FDC 2710165 ↗
Chicken and vegetable entree with noodles and cream sauce, frozen meal	Poultry mixed dishes	16 input rows	1 g	0.4%	124 kcal	8.5 g	379 mg	FDC 2707116 ↗
Chicken or turkey fricassee	Poultry mixed dishes	6 input rows	68.3 g	4.2%	121 kcal	10.7 g	418 mg	FDC 2706429 ↗
Chicken tenders or strips, breaded, from restaurant	Chicken patties, nuggets and tenders	3 input rows	2 g	2%	283 kcal	18.8 g	791 mg	FDC 2706100 ↗
Chicken with rice and vegetable, diet frozen meal	Poultry mixed dishes	14 input rows	0.7 g	0.3%	111 kcal	9.8 g	410 mg	FDC 2707110 ↗
Cornmeal dressing with chicken or turkey and vegetables	Turnovers and other grain-based items	9 input rows	20.5 g	2.4%	237 kcal	7.6 g	561 mg	FDC 2708746 ↗
Dressing with chicken or turkey and vegetables	Turnovers and other grain-based items	9 input rows	22.5 g	2.4%	217 kcal	8.2 g	509 mg	FDC 2708748 ↗
Flavored rice mixture	Rice mixed dishes	12 input rows	5.5 g	0.6%	127 kcal	1.9 g	296 mg	FDC 2709079 ↗
Livers, chicken, chopped, with eggs and onion	Poultry mixed dishes	5 input rows	12.8 g	13.1%	226 kcal	12.9 g	1,050 mg	FDC 2706875 ↗
Pork sausage, reduced sodium	Sausages	2 input rows	7 g	7%	233 kcal	19.9 g	415 mg	FDC 2706193 ↗
Turkey or chicken sausage, reduced sodium	Sausages	2 input rows	7 g	6.5%	230 kcal	20 g	417 mg	FDC 2706201 ↗

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 9 exact records behind Fat, chicken (USDA input 4542). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Dressing with chicken or turkey and vegetables is higher in dietary fiber per 100 g

Dressing with chicken or turkey and vegetables reports 1.4 g versus 0 g for Animal fat or drippings: a 1.4 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Pork sausage, reduced sodium is denser; Livers, chicken, chopped, with eggs and onion is higher in its source amount

Pork sausage, reduced sodium reports 233 kcal per 100 g and 140 kcal in USDA source amount (60 g). Livers, chicken, chopped, with eggs and onion reports a lower 226 kcal per 100 g but a higher 353 kcal in USDA source amount (156 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Chicken or turkey fricassee” from “Livers, chicken, chopped, with eggs and onion”

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 Fat, chicken (USDA input 4542), 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 Chicken or turkey fricassee

Chicken or turkey fricassee is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Chicken tenders or strips breaded

Chicken tenders or strips, breaded, from restaurant is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Beverages, water, tap, drinking

USDA input 14411 appears in 3 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 118.5–651.8 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 Flour, wheat, all-purpose, enriched, bleached

USDA input 20081 appears in 3 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.7–62.5 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 Test a nearby record choice Pork sausage, reduced fat vs Pork sausage, reduced sodium

Pork sausage, reduced sodium is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Sodium wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus reduced- or low-sodium wording; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Test a nearby record choice Chicken tenders or strips, breaded, from frozen vs Chicken tenders or strips, breaded, from restaurant

Chicken tenders or strips, breaded, from restaurant is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Source form: frozen versus No matching controlled term in the source name; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 4 context records in this source topic Poultry mixed dishes

Chicken or turkey fricassee and Chicken and vegetable entree with noodles and cream sauce, frozen meal 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

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 4542; 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.