Cooked Ground Beef vs Cooked Ground Turkey: The Healthier Choice

Where is more calories, protein, carbs - what is more healthy?

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Cooked ground beef - calories, kcal, weight, nutrition

Cooked ground turkey vs Cooked ground beef: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	Cooked ground beef	Cooked ground turkey
Calories	260	203
Fat	16.82 g	10.4 g
Protein	25.54 g	27.37 g
Water	56.32 g	62.07 g
Calcium	24 mg	28 mg
Iron	2.47 mg	1.52 mg
Magnessium	20 mg	30 mg
Potassium	302 mg	294 mg
Sodium	397 mg	78 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.047 mg	0.077 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.175 mg	0.211 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	5.07 mg	8.724 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.364 mg	0.633 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)	0.01 mg	0.007 mg
Vitaminium E	0.12 mg	0.11 mg

More Calories in Cooked ground beef

At first glance, you can see that in cooked ground beef is more calories than in cooked ground turkey.

Cooked ground beef has 260 kcal per 100g and cooked ground turkey 203 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 28%.

Additionally, it is also easy to notice that most of the calories in cooked ground beef cames from fat and in cooked ground turkey from protein.

See tables below to compare cooked ground beef with cooked ground turkey in details.

Cooked ground beef And Cooked ground turkey Nutrition Difference

Calories:
cooked ground beef - 28% more than cooked ground turkey
Fat:
cooked ground beef - 62% more than cooked ground turkey
Protein:
cooked ground turkey - 7% more than cooked ground beef
Water:
cooked ground turkey - 10% more than cooked ground beef

Add Cooked ground beef to calculator

Add Cooked ground turkey to calculator

Less protein in cooked ground beef

It is aslo easy to see see that in cooked ground beef is less protein than in cooked ground turkey.

There is 27.37g per 100g of cooked ground turkey and 25.54g per 100g of cooked ground beef so using simple math we can see that difference is about 7%.

More fat in cooked ground beef

In cooked ground beef is more fats than in cooked ground turkey.

The tables above show us that there is 10.4g/100g of fats in cooked ground turkey and 16.82g/100g in cooked ground beef. In this case difference is about 62%.