Ground Beef vs Ground Turkey nutrition
Cooked ground beef (85% lean) has more fat, calories and iron. Cooked ground turkey has more calcium.
- Cooked ground beef (85% lean)100 g
- Cooked ground turkey100 g
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Exact amounts and % Daily Value
| Nutrient | Cooked ground beef (85% lean) | Cooked ground turkey | Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 256 kcal (13%) | 213 kcal (11%) | 2,000 kcal |
| Protein | 27.7 g (55%) | 27.1 g (54%) | 50 g |
| Fat | 15.3 g (20%) | 11.6 g (15%) | 78 g |
| Saturated fat | 5.8 g (29%) | 3 g (15%) | 20 g |
| Carbs | 0 g (0%) | 0 g (0%) | 275 g |
| Fiber | 0 g (0%) | 0 g (0%) | 28 g |
| Sugar | 0 g | 0 g | none set |
| Cholesterol | 89 mg (30%) | 104 mg (35%) | 300 mg |
| Salt (sodium) | 89 mg (4%) | 90 mg (4%) | 2,300 mg |
| Potassium | 407 mg (9%) | 304 mg (6%) | 4,700 mg |
| Calcium | 22 mg (2%) | 31 mg (2%) | 1,300 mg |
| Iron | 2.9 mg (16%) | 1.6 mg (9%) | 18 mg |
| Magnesium | 25 mg (6%) | 29 mg (7%) | 420 mg |
| Vitamin A | 3 µg (<1%) | 30 µg (3%) | 900 µg |
| Vitamin C | 0 mg (0%) | 0 mg (0%) | 90 mg |
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How the numbers are taken. Amounts are per 100 g of the edible part, from USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy, public domain), in the state named — raw, boiled, roasted and so on. Percentages use the FDA Daily Values for adults and children aged 4 and over, set around a 2,000-calorie diet; your own needs can be different. This site compares amounts — it does not give diet or medical advice. Sources and limits.
What is being compared
This page compares cooked ground beef (85% lean) and cooked ground turkey as USDA FoodData Central lists them: “Beef, ground, 85% lean meat / 15% fat, crumbles, cooked, pan-browned” (FDC 174034) and “Turkey, ground, 93% lean, 7% fat, pan-broiled crumbles” (FDC 172851). All figures start from 100 grams of the edible part. A search for “ground beef” is taken here as cooked ground beef (85% lean); cooked ground beef (90% lean), cooked ground beef (80% lean), cooked ground beef (95% lean) and raw ground beef (85% lean) are in the comparer above. A search for “ground turkey” is taken here as cooked ground turkey; cooked ground turkey (85% lean) is in the comparer above.
Per 100 grams
Per 100 grams, cooked ground beef (85% lean) has more calories (256 vs 213 kcal), fat (15.3 vs 11.6 g), saturated fat (5.8 vs 3 g, 2.0 times as much), potassium (407 vs 304 mg) and iron (2.9 vs 1.6 mg, 1.9 times as much). Cooked ground turkey has more cholesterol (104 vs 89 mg), calcium (31 vs 22 mg), magnesium (29 vs 25 mg) and vitamin A (30 vs 3 µg, about 10 times as much). They are within 3% of each other for protein, carbohydrate, fiber, sugars, sodium and vitamin C.
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Per serving
A serving as USDA measures it is 3 oz of cooked ground beef (85% lean) (85 g) and 3 oz of cooked ground turkey (85 g). The two servings weigh about the same, so the per-serving picture follows the per-100 g one closely. No nutrient changes leader when you switch from 100 g to servings. One serving is 218 kcal of cooked ground beef (85% lean) against 181 kcal of cooked ground turkey.
For the same calories
To get 100 kcal you would eat 39.1 g of cooked ground beef (85% lean) or 46.9 g of cooked ground turkey. At that equal energy, cooked ground beef (85% lean) carries 10.8 g of protein and cooked ground turkey 12.7 g. Measured per 100 kcal, every nutrient keeps the same leader as per 100 g.
Where the calories come from
Roughly, 45% of the energy in cooked ground beef (85% lean) comes from protein, 55% from fat and 0% from carbohydrate; for cooked ground turkey it is 51%, 49% and 0%. These shares use the general 4, 9 and 4 kcal per gram and can differ slightly from USDA's own energy factors.
Against the Daily Value
3 oz of cooked ground beef (85% lean) reaches its largest shares of the Daily Value in protein (47%), cholesterol (25%) and saturated fat (25%); 3 oz of cooked ground turkey reaches its largest shares of the Daily Value in protein (46%), cholesterol (29%) and fat (13%). Daily Values are the FDA label reference amounts for adults and children aged 4 and over, set around a 2,000-calorie diet; they are a yardstick for reading labels, not a target for any one person.
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