USDA ingredient referenceUpdated August 22, 2026

Fish, tuna, light, canned in water in 27 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Fish, tuna, light, canned in water” appears as a formulation input in 27 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 Fish, tuna, light, canned in water 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 27 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 15121 and the source description “Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained solids.” 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 Seafood mixed dishes (20), Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese (4), Macaroni and cheese (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

20.4%–50.4%

The middle half of linked records spans 29.9 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

Seafood mixed dishes

20 of 27 linked records (74%) sit in this USDA category. The remainder span 3 other categories.

Most populated share band

30% to under 60%

13 records (48%) fall in this band after repeated rows for code 15121 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Salt, table

It appears alongside code 15121 in 20 linked records (74%). 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 15121 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 15121 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 15121 have been combined.

Under 1%0 records
0 of 27
1% to under 5%0 records
0 of 27
5% to under 15%4 records
4 of 27
15% to under 30%7 records
7 of 27
30% to under 60%13 records
13 of 27
60% to 100%3 records
3 of 27

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
Seafood mixed dishes	20	49.5%	30.4%–50.4%	8.1%–69.9%
Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese	4	14.7%	13.1%–15.8%	9.9%–17.2%
Macaroni and cheese	2	20.4%	19.9%–20.9%	19.5%–21.3%

What the spread can tell you

In this collection, “Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained solids” ranges from 8.1% to 100% of listed source-input weight, with a median of 46.4%. 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 “Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained solids.”

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 15121, 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	72 kcal	106–166 kcal	139 kcal	214 kcal	27
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food	4.6 g	8.5–10 g	9.8 g	19 g	27
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food	0.1 g	4.4–15.4 g	6.3 g	20.9 g	27
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food	0.9 g	4.5–9.9 g	5.2 g	17.6 g	27
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food	0 g	0.4–0.9 g	0.4 g	1.2 g	27
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food	176 mg	266–450 mg	364 mg	498 mg	27

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 27 Feast-indexed food records that list code 15121

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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27 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
Fish, tuna, canned	Fish	Sole source	100 g	100%	85 kcal	19 g	219 mg	FDC 2706311 ↗
Macaroni or noodles with cheese and tuna	Macaroni and cheese	2 input rows	167 g	19.5%	164 kcal	7.6 g	176 mg	FDC 2708817 ↗
Macaroni or noodles, creamed, with cheese and tuna	Macaroni and cheese	4 input rows	167 g	21.3%	143 kcal	7.9 g	252 mg	FDC 2708929 ↗
Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna	Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese	8 input rows	276 g	15.3%	200 kcal	6.7 g	206 mg	FDC 2708942 ↗
Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna and egg	Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese	9 input rows	276 g	14.2%	197 kcal	7.1 g	200 mg	FDC 2708945 ↗
Macaroni with tuna, Puerto Rican style	Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese	8 input rows	127.6 g	17.2%	147 kcal	7.7 g	359 mg	FDC 2708810 ↗
Seafood souffle	Seafood mixed dishes	8 input rows	49 g	8.1%	153 kcal	9.9 g	425 mg	FDC 2706569 ↗
Stuffed shells, with fish and/or shellfish, with tomato sauce	Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese	13 input rows	154 g	9.9%	116 kcal	8.9 g	330 mg	FDC 2708784 ↗
Tuna and rice with mushroom sauce	Seafood mixed dishes	7 input rows	15 g	13.2%	128 kcal	4.6 g	298 mg	FDC 2706572 ↗
Tuna cake or patty	Seafood mixed dishes	7 input rows	363 g	67.9%	206 kcal	15.3 g	372 mg	FDC 2706560 ↗
Tuna casserole with vegetables and mushroom sauce, no noodles	Seafood mixed dishes	8 input rows	340.2 g	32.4%	115 kcal	9 g	364 mg	FDC 2706858 ↗
Tuna noodle casserole with cream or white sauce	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	340.2 g	30.9%	168 kcal	10.1 g	249 mg	FDC 2706570 ↗
Tuna noodle casserole with mushroom sauce	Seafood mixed dishes	6 input rows	340.2 g	29.1%	139 kcal	9 g	328 mg	FDC 2706571 ↗
Tuna noodle casserole with vegetables and mushroom sauce	Seafood mixed dishes	9 input rows	340.2 g	24.8%	124 kcal	8.1 g	280 mg	FDC 2706718 ↗
Tuna noodle casserole with vegetables, cream or white sauce	Seafood mixed dishes	8 input rows	340.2 g	26.1%	149 kcal	9 g	211 mg	FDC 2706714 ↗
Tuna salad with cheese	Seafood mixed dishes	6 input rows	276 g	46.4%	214 kcal	11.3 g	440 mg	FDC 2706839 ↗
Tuna salad with egg	Seafood mixed dishes	6 input rows	276 g	46.9%	190 kcal	10.3 g	393 mg	FDC 2706840 ↗
Tuna salad, made with any type of fat free dressing	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	49.6%	72 kcal	9.6 g	460 mg	FDC 2706836 ↗
Tuna salad, made with creamy dressing	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	50.4%	148 kcal	10 g	460 mg	FDC 2706832 ↗
Tuna salad, made with Italian dressing	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	50.6%	106 kcal	9.8 g	498 mg	FDC 2706834 ↗
Tuna salad, made with light creamy dressing	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	49.3%	78 kcal	9.8 g	488 mg	FDC 2706833 ↗
Tuna salad, made with light Italian dressing	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	50.4%	76 kcal	9.8 g	478 mg	FDC 2706835 ↗
Tuna salad, made with light mayonnaise	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	50.4%	106 kcal	9.8 g	464 mg	FDC 2706829 ↗
Tuna salad, made with light mayonnaise-type salad dressing	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	50.4%	106 kcal	9.8 g	464 mg	FDC 2706831 ↗
Tuna salad, made with mayonnaise	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	51.3%	194 kcal	10.1 g	418 mg	FDC 2706828 ↗
Tuna salad, made with mayonnaise-type salad dressing	Seafood mixed dishes	5 input rows	276 g	50.6%	108 kcal	9.9 g	425 mg	FDC 2706830 ↗
Tuna with cream or white sauce	Seafood mixed dishes	3 input rows	70 g	69.9%	102 kcal	14.4 g	327 mg	FDC 2706450 ↗

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 Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained solids (USDA input 15121). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna is higher in dietary fiber per 100 g

Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna reports 1.2 g versus 0 g for Fish, tuna, canned: a 1.2 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna is denser; Macaroni or noodles with cheese and tuna is higher in its source amount

Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna reports 200 kcal per 100 g and 272 kcal in USDA source amount (136 g). Macaroni or noodles with cheese and tuna reports a lower 164 kcal per 100 g but a higher 377 kcal in USDA source amount (230 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Tuna salad, made with light creamy dressing” from “Tuna salad with cheese”

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 Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained solids (USDA input 15121), 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 Fish, tuna

Fish, tuna, canned 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 Macaroni or noodles creamed with cheese

Macaroni or noodles, creamed, with cheese and tuna is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Celery, raw

USDA input 11143 appears in 4 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 40–120 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 Pasta, cooked, enriched, without added salt

USDA input 20121 appears in 4 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 315–1,120 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 Tuna salad, made with creamy dressing vs Tuna salad, made with light creamy dressing

Tuna salad, made with light creamy dressing is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Light wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus light wording; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 3 context records in this source topic Pasta mixed dishes, excludes macaroni and cheese

Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna and Macaroni or pasta salad with tuna and egg 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 3 context records in this source topic Seafood mixed dishes

Tuna salad, made with light creamy dressing and Seafood souffle 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 15121; 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.