USDA ingredient referenceUpdated

Sauce, tomato chili sauce, with salt in 3 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Sauce, tomato chili sauce, with salt” appears as a formulation input in 3 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 Sauce, tomato chili sauce, with salt 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 3 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 6972 and the source description “Sauce, tomato chili sauce, bottled, with salt.” 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 Burritos and tacos (1), Poultry mixed dishes (1), Vegetable dishes (1). 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. This is a very small set of 3 records: each observation can move the percentages, buckets, and interpolated quartiles substantially, so read the complete catalog rather than treating the summaries as stable population estimates.

Typical listed-weight range

5%–16.8%

The middle half of linked records spans 11.8 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

Burritos and tacos

1 of 3 linked records (33%) sits in this USDA category. The remainder span 2 other categories.

Most populated share band

1% to under 5%

1 record (33%) falls in this band after repeated rows for code 6972 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Cheese, cheddar

It appears alongside code 6972 in 2 linked records (67%). 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 6972 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

Important nutrition boundary

This collection does not support a verified standalone nutrition answer for “Sauce, tomato chili sauce, bottled, with salt.”

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.

Compare complete food records

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 6972, and differences cannot be attributed to this one input.

Nutrient span across complete food records linked to this source ingredient code
Whole-record nutrientObserved minimumMiddle 50%MedianObserved maximumLinked records
Caloriesper 100 g of the complete food171 kcal175–180 kcal178 kcal181 kcal3
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food7.8 g9.1–11.7 g10.4 g13 g3
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food6.4 g8.2–14.8 g9.9 g19.6 g3
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food5.6 g8.4–11.5 g11.3 g11.7 g3
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food0.7 g0.7–0.8 g0.7 g0.9 g3
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food320 mg340–416 mg359 mg473 mg3

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 3 Feast-indexed food records that list code 6972

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.

Complete USDA food-record catalog linked to this source ingredient code
Linked USDA food recordUSDA categoryFormulationListed input weightWeight shareCaloriesProteinSodiumCitation
Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce Burritos and tacos 5 input rows 17.1 g 25.3% 181 kcal 13 g 473 mg FDC 2706750 ↗
Chicken and vegetable entree with rice, diet frozen meal Poultry mixed dishes 12 input rows 4 g 1.7% 171 kcal 10.4 g 359 mg FDC 2707112 ↗
Stuffed pepper, with rice and meat Vegetable dishes 10 input rows 68.3 g 8.4% 178 kcal 7.8 g 320 mg FDC 2709073 ↗

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 Sauce, tomato chili sauce, bottled, with salt (USDA input 6972). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce is higher in calcium per 100 g

Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce reports 130 mg versus 18 mg for Chicken and vegetable entree with rice, diet frozen meal: a 112 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

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The denominator changes the answer

Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce is denser; Chicken and vegetable entree with rice, diet frozen meal is higher in its source amount

Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce reports 181 kcal per 100 g and 277 kcal in USDA source amount (153 g). Chicken and vegetable entree with rice, diet frozen meal reports a lower 171 kcal per 100 g but a higher 436 kcal in USDA source amount (255 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce” from “Stuffed pepper, with rice and meat”

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 Sauce, tomato chili sauce, bottled, with salt (USDA input 6972), 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 Stuffed pepper with rice

Stuffed pepper, with rice and meat is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

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A formulation detail that separates records Rice, white, long-grain, regular, enriched, cooked

USDA input 20045 appears in 2 of 3 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 78–158 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

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A formulation detail that separates records Vegetable oil, NFS

USDA input 82101000 appears in 2 of 3 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 4–42 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

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Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 18 mg in Chicken and vegetable entree with rice, diet frozen meal to 130 mg in Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce, all per 100 g.

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1 context record in this source topic Burritos and tacos

Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce belongs 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.

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1 context record in this source topic Poultry mixed dishes

Chicken and vegetable entree with rice, diet frozen meal belongs 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.

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Inspect an exact record Beef taco filling: beef, cheese, tomato, taco sauce

Open the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2706750 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.

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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 6972; 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.