Bacon vs Pork Belly: All Nutritional Differences

Fact 1: There is More Calories in Bacon

At first glance, you can see that in bacon is just a little more calories than in pork belly.

Bacon has 556 kcal per 100g and pork belly 518 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 7%.

In bacon and in pork belly most calories came from fat.

See tables below to compare bacon with pork belly in details.

Fact 2: Bacon And Pork belly Nutrition Difference

• Calories: bacon - 7% more than pork belly
• Fat: pork belly - 6% more than bacon
• Protein: bacon - 257% more than pork belly

More protein in bacon

It is aslo easy to see see that in bacon is more protein than in pork belly.

There is 9.34g per 100g of pork belly and 33.33g per 100g of bacon so using simple math we can see that difference is about 257%.

Less fat in bacon

In bacon is less fats than in pork belly.

The tables above show us that there is 53.01g/100g of fats in pork belly and 50g/100g in bacon. In this case difference is about 6%.

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