So I have been on a mission to try and figure out which is better for you. By reading the ingredients AND nutritional facts, cause lets think people you DO have to look at both, you don't want to get something that they say is "healthy" based on it's "facts" only to take it home and find out it's filled with horrible preservatives and "artificials". So how about we start there. We will compare the nutritional facts of each option.
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So here we have Butterball turkey bacon. Looks good right? Then compare it to this:
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Pretty similar yes?? Yes, not too much of a difference, they even have the same sodium levels, although you have to consider the servings sizes for turkey bacon it is 15g whereas here with the regular bacon it is 8g so for every ONE piece of turkey bacon you could have TWO pieces of regular. Tricksy aren't they?? So when you actually look at that Turkey bacon has more sodium, more fat, AND more cholesterol!! This floored me!! but secretly made me happy happy happy!!
So already I am still on the piggies side. But what about the ingredients?? In "oscar Mayer turkey bacon" we have: Turkey, Water, Salt, Sugar, contains Less than 2% of Sodium Lactate, Canola Oil, Sodium Diacetate, Sodium Phosphates, Smoke Flavor, Sodium Ascorbate, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Sodium Nitrite, Dextrose, Soy Lecithin. Then in "Oscar Mayer regular bacon" we have: Cured with Water, Salt, Sugar, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Nitrite.
So what do I take from all this research and all this extra time spent at the store browsing?! That regular bacon is the better choice... granted not by much but it is a BIT better.
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I like pig! The only reason I have turkey bacon in my house is cause the Hubs won't eat swine. He's a loser. I cook regular bacon for me and The Kid all the time. He won't kiss either of us for at least an hour. lol
ReplyDeleteI'm a turkey girl, but only because I don't eat piggies.
ReplyDeletepiggies are super cute lol... not like turkey's lol!!
ReplyDeleteWell hot damn...I never knew that!
ReplyDeleteYou can also get uncured bacon which is even better! then it doesn't have ANY of that crap in it. mmmmm bacon....
ReplyDeleteWell well this was music to my eyes. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteThe bacon in the pictures says Oscar Meyer but you wrote that its Butterball. It had me totally confused so I thought that the second pic was the butterball and you were comparing 2 packs of turkey bacon. Not sure what to make of that. I 'm assuming you wrote butterball by mistake?
ReplyDeleteYou've got this all wrong... The turkey bacon's serving size is ONE slice, the regular bacon serving size is also ONE slice. The turkey bacon is 15g/slice, while the regular pig bacon is 8g/slice. So if you put some logic into what I just said, your statement of "the servings sizes for turkey bacon it is 15g whereas here with the regular bacon it is 8g so for every ONE piece of turkey bacon you could have TWO pieces of regular." does not make any sense. The turkey bacon is 15g/serving, while the pig bacon is 8g/serving. This means that if you were to have two pieces of pig bacon you would have double the whats labeled on the nutrition facts, meaning you cannot eat two pieces of regular. The turkey bacon is twice the size(per gram) than regular bacon, with nearly the exact same nutrition facts. So you can eat ~8grams more with turkey bacon having nearly the exact same as in 8grams (7grams less than the turkey bacon) of regular pig bacon. So overall, turkey bacon is healthier for you. Eating 15g of Turkey bacon = eating 8g of Regular Bacon. You're eating less bacon with the pork, for the same amount of nutrition, so turkey bacon is about twice as good for you than regular bacon. If you were to eat the same amount of turkey bacon as recommended with pig bacon , you'd have the entire nutrition label cut in half. So 8g of turkey bacon = HALF of all the bad stuff in 8g of pig bacon.
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