Surely these calories are wrong?

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kyle240420
kyle240420 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I LOVE chopped pork from uk supermarket morrisons. It’s really just quite thin slices of ham. Whenever I try to find calories for it all I can find is places saying around 55 calories per slice. This seams unbelievably high! It’s just thin slices of ham.

Do you guys think this will be right? Best to just totally avoid it?
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  • MaltedTea
    MaltedTea Posts: 6,286 Member
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    I don't eat pork (or much deli meat in general for that matter) but, yes, it sounds right.

    If it fits in your caloric requirements for the day - and you don't mind the requisite salt - enjoy!
  • wilson10102018
    wilson10102018 Posts: 1,306 Member
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    Chopped pork (untrimmed) should be about 2.5 calories per gram.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,393 Member
    edited August 2020
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    This chopped pork looks a lot like leftover meat scraped from bones and pieces of fat and leaner meat all glued together. These things tend to be extremely high in fat. Thus probably fairly believable.
  • KrissDotCom
    KrissDotCom Posts: 217 Member
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    Pork is sometimes very high calorie. Lean Ground pork is 210 calories per 100g which is almost on par with medium ground beef.

    Certain cuts of pork chops are also higher in calories then others due to fat content
  • wilson10102018
    wilson10102018 Posts: 1,306 Member
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    Processed "deli ham" is typically just a little above 1 calorie per gram.

    https://www.myfitnesspal.com/nutrition-facts-calories/cumberland-gap
  • PAPYRUS3
    PAPYRUS3 Posts: 13,259 Member
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    probably...one piece of bacon is between 38 - 45 calories apparently.
  • Wendyanneroberts
    Wendyanneroberts Posts: 270 Member
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    Update: just checked in Tesco, UK. As I happened to be in store today. Very similar product.

    They list 55 calories per or 216 calories per 100g.

    Hope this helps, higher in calories than some pork, because of the fat content in cuts used.
  • Onedaywriter
    Onedaywriter Posts: 324 Member
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    Sorry to say. YES that drift looks like 55 calories to me. I hate my answer!!

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