Chicken vs Turkey: All Nutritional Differences

Less Calories in Chicken

At first glance, you can see that in chicken is less calories than in turkey meat.

Chicken has 114 kcal per 100g and turkey meat 161 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 41%.

In chicken and in turkey meat most calories came from protein.

See tables below to compare chicken with turkey meat in details.

Chicken And Turkey meat Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  turkey meat - 41% more than chicken
• Fat:
  turkey meat - 350% more than chicken
• Protein:
  chicken - 6% more than turkey meat
• Water:
  chicken - 6% more than turkey meat

More protein in chicken

It is aslo easy to see see that in chicken is more protein than in turkey meat.

There is 21.96g per 100g of turkey meat and 23.2g per 100g of chicken so using simple math we can see that difference is about 6%.

Less fat in chicken

In chicken is less fats than in turkey meat.

The tables above show us that there is 7.43g/100g of fats in turkey meat and 1.65g/100g in chicken. In this case difference is about 350%.

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