From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 14:52:44 MDT
Lee,
> I didn't say, or imply, that the number was dishonest;
You did here in your last sentence:
>> Actually, [gts] claimed 94%. According the USDA Food and Nutrition
Information Center,
>> an 84g serving of what they call "Turkey, all classes, light meat,
roasted" has 132
>> calories, 2.7g of fat, and 25.12g of protein, which would make calories
from protein just
>> over 80%. I'm not sure how whatever product he's calling "lean turkey
breast" compares to
>> what the USDA was measuring, but it wouldn't surprize me if such a
product could be
>> produced that pushed the number up to 94%. It would probably be more
honest to quote
>> the 80% figure.
As I've written, a lot of people don't care for the fatty dark meat or the
fatty skin, so I think it was perfectly honest for me to quote the figure
for the skinless turkey breast of the most flavorable and appealing kind of
turkey (fryer-roaster). And the discussion was specifically about *lean*
meats.
In any case we're getting side-tracked here by trivial issues.
Pound for pound, lean meats like skinless turkey breast are the richest
natural sources of essential protein-grams. I think we can all agree with
this.
-gts
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