The Truth About Turkey
By
Janice Wee
All along, turkey has been even a top loin beef
associated to once a year steak.
family feasts. You know,
the Thanksgiving turkey. The That makes turkey the ideal
Christmas turkey. Roast turkey food for growing children,
stuffed with some athletes and anyone
yummy stuffing, eaten with who wants lean muscle.
gravy or cranberry sauce is a
must for the end of the Fat.
year celebrations.
Most of the fat in poultry is
The fact is, turkey is such a found in the skin. That
healthy meat, it should not means, by trimming off
be reserved ONLY the skin in chicken or
for Christmas and turkey, you remove most of the
Thanksgiving. You should have fat. Beef, pork and lamb
turkey as part of your daily on the other hand have the
diet. Especially the breast fat embedded in the meat
meat of the turkey, without itself. So just by switching
the skin. to poultry alone, and
removing the skin, you
Why? effectively remove most of the
fat.
3 reasons. In fact, 3 ounces of
1. Turkey meat has a very skinless, boneless turkey
high protein content breast contains a mere 1g of
2. Turkey meat itself has low fat and no saturated fat.
fat content. That is a weight watcher's
3. Turkey can be really dream. This is about as
delicious. My mom cooks a healthy as you get.
fantastic roast turkey.
This makes turkey the ideal
Here are 2 of her roast meat for anyone who wants to
turkey stay slim, yet eat
recipes. to his or her heart's
http://www.allkitchen.info/turkey.htm content, without
. consumingnbsp; much fat.
Still even if
Protein. you do switch to turkey,
watch your portion size.
Ok, so we can get lots of Double the amount you eat and
protein from meat, fish and you will still gain weight.
soya beans. Sure, beef
packs plenty of protein that The flip side is the lack of
you body needs, but red meats fat in turkey meat compromises
are high in the taste. After
cholesterol. all, the yummiest food
contain fat. Fat flavors food.
For example, 1 oz of turkey
contains between 15 mg and 24 Then again, with the right
mg cholesterol seasoning, gravy and all,
while 1 oz of beef contains turkey can be delicious.
20 and 30mg of cholesterol. It Just try my mom's recipes
all adds up to a like her roast
large difference in artery turkey with rice stuffing
clogging cholesterol between http://www.allkitchen.info/turkey
beef and turkey. That -rice-recipe.php or the roast
means if you have heart turkey with bread crumb
disease or high blood stuffing
pressure, switching from beef http://www.allkitchen.info/turkey
to -breadcrumb-recipe.php .
turkey can make a big It is time to switch to
difference. something
healthy and yummy.. like
As for protein, USA Poultry turkey.
and Egg Export Council billed
turkey as the
perfect protein.nbsp; It has
more protein than chicken, or
About the author:
The writer is the webmaster of http://www.allkitchen.info/which helps you find your kitchen essentials online, easily.
My Mom's recipes are http://www.allkitchen.info/turkey-rice-recipe.phpand http://www.allkitchen.info/turkey-breadcrumb-recipe.phpwhich is more traditional
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