Chicken vs Bacon: Health Insights

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Chicken - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition
Chicken - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Bacon vs Chicken: Nutrition Comparison

per 100gChickenBacon
Calories114 556
Fat1.65 g50 g
Protein23.2 g33.33 g
Sodium68 mg1833 mg

Less Calories in Chicken

At first glance, you can see that in chicken is much less calories than in bacon.

Chicken has 114 kcal per 100g and bacon 556 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 388%.

Additionally, it is also easy to notice that most of the calories in chicken cames from protein and in bacon from fat.

See tables below to compare chicken with bacon in details.

Chicken And Bacon Nutrition Difference

  • Calories:
    bacon - 388% more than chicken
  • Fat:
    bacon - 2930% more than chicken
  • Protein:
    bacon - 44% more than chicken

Less protein in chicken

It is aslo easy to see see that in chicken is less protein than in bacon.

There is 33.33g per 100g of bacon and 23.2g per 100g of chicken so using simple math we can see that difference is about 44%.

Less fat in chicken

In chicken is less fats than in bacon.

The tables above show us that there is 50g/100g of fats in bacon and 1.65g/100g in chicken. In this case difference is about 2930%.

Chicken

114kcal
  • Calories114
  • Fat1.65 g
  • Protein23.2 g
Chicken calories per:
100g
| ounce | single piece | breast | thigh | leg | wing

Calories source

  • 0% CARBS.
  • 86% PROTEIN
  • 14% FAT

Bacon

556kcal
  • Calories556
  • Fat50 g
  • Protein33.33 g
Bacon calories per:
100g
| ounce | standard serving size | slice | cup | half cup

Calories source

  • 0% CARBS
  • 23% PROTEIN
  • 77% FAT

Vitamins: bacon vs chicken

    Minerals: chicken vs bacon

    • Sodium:
      bacon - 2596% more than chicken
    Marcin Piotrowicz
    Author of this page
    Marcin Piotrowicz

    calories-info.com creator
    Healthy diet and healthy lifestyle promoter

    All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.

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