Bacon Question

opalle

We get our bacon from Costco and on the label it says two pieces are 230 calories. I thought that's a lot for just two pieces of bacon so I substituted it for turkey bacon that is only 70 calories for two pieces. A big difference, but also not that tasty to me. When I looked online, I saw that the Costco bacon is listed as 80 calories for two pieces. I even did an image search and found photos of both. One shows a picture of the back of the packages as 80 per two pieces, one shows it as as 230.

I am assuming that the difference is cooked vs raw but just want to double check before I scrap the turkey rubber, I mean Turkey bacon, and go back to the good stuff.

Am I correct that 80 calories is for two pieces cooked?

Lasmartchika

That's what my costco kirkland bacon that I have says... 80 for 2 cooked slices.

swirlybee

Interesting. I did an image search as well. It looks like the one showing 230 calories is for 54 grams compared to the 80 calories for only 18 grams of bacon. Depending on the thickness of the cut of bacon, it's normally around 80 calories for 2 slices.

opalle

Thank you both.
Judging by the weight difference it has to be raw vs cooked.
I'm in Canada, so maybe it's a different label in the US.