Flank Steak vs Skirt Steak: All Nutritional Differences

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Less Calories in Flank steak

At first glance, you can see that in flank steak is less calories than in skirt steak.

Flank steak has 192 kcal per 100g and skirt steak 220 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 15%.

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

See tables below to compare flank steak with skirt steak in details.

Flank steak And Skirt steak Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  skirt steak - 15% more than flank steak
• Fat:
  skirt steak - 46% more than flank steak
• Protein:
  flank steak - 6% more than skirt steak
• Water:
  flank steak - 6% more than skirt steak

More protein in flank steak

It is aslo easy to see see that in flank steak is more protein than in skirt steak.

There is 26.13g per 100g of skirt steak and 27.66g per 100g of flank steak so using simple math we can see that difference is about 6%.

Less fat in flank steak

In flank steak is less fats than in skirt steak.

The tables above show us that there is 12.05g/100g of fats in skirt steak and 8.23g/100g in flank steak. In this case difference is about 46%.