I'm a little confused on determining the correct nutrition values from
Fitday (and other food db's) for ground turkey. Here is an example:
Poultry Food Products, Ground Turkey, Raw
1 lb.
Calories = 675.86
Turkey, Ground
16 oz. raw, yield cooked
Calories = 559.3
Poultry Food Products, Ground Turkey, Cooked
yield from 1 lb. raw
Calories = 775.5
The first two entries make sense to me, 675 cals raw and 559 cals
cooked for one pound of meat. I assume this indicates a little of the
fat is cooked off resulting in fewer calories.
But the third entry actually indicates more calories (775) AFTER
cooking one pound of meat. Note that this is for a yield from one raw
pound, not a pound of cooked meat.
Can anyone explain this? Which values seem best to use? This seems to
apply to a variety of ground meats. Thanks for any info.