beef fat vs chicken or turkey

I think fat grams are fat grams are fat grams in meats. Some meats are leaner than others and have less saturated fat, but I don't think the fats themselves are different.

Bumping this in case someone else has some guidance.

Fat is fat. Saturated fat is saturated fat. Cholesterol is cholesterol. Whether it's in a steak, chicken, turkey or a chocolate pie. It's all the same.

Sorry to hear about your health problems. I just got off of a self imposed low fat, low cholesterol diet myself. Dropped my cholesterol 80 points in only 4 months.

Thanks for the info. I have really been watching what I eat. Hard to find out cold hard facts. Thanks again !!


Have lost 22 lbs since November. feeling good, trying to good as possible.

Food Saturated/Monounsaturated/Polyunsaturated
As weight percent (%) of total fat
Cooking oils
Canola oil 7 59 29
Corn oil 13 24 59
Olive oil 13 74 8
Sunflower oil 10.3[6] 19.5[6] 65.7[6]
Soybean oil 15 24 58
Coconut oil 92 6 2
Dairy Products
Cheese,regular 64 29 3
Cheese,light 60 30 0
Milk, whole 62 28 4
Milk, 2% 62 30 0
Ice cream, 62 29 4
Ice cream, light62 29 4
Meats
Beef 33 38 5
Ground sirloin 38 44 4
Pork chop 35 44 8
Ham 35 49 16
Chicken breast 29 34 21
Chicken 34 23 30
Turkey breast 30 20 30
Turkey drumstick32 22 30
Fish, roughy 23 15 46
Salmon 28 33 28
Hot dog, beef 42 48 5
Hot dog, turkey 28 40 22
Burger 36 44 6
Cheeseburger 43 40 7
Bread chick sand20 39 32
Grill chick sand26 42 20
Sausage, Polish 37 46 11
Sausage, turkey 28 40 22
Pizza, sausage 41 32 20
Pizza, cheese 60 28 5

So there is a difference. Thanks grits tits!

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Now different types of food obviously has different amount of fats and cholesterol. That's not what he was asking.

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That's what I understood as well. I thought he was asking if there's a difference between 1 gram fat in beef versus 1 gram fat of chicken or turkey. Is the one gram in chicken not as bad as the 1 gram in the beef? That's what I got from the question. Obviously, different foods have differing amounts.

I'll tell you what I ate for 4 months:

Baked chicken without the skin. McCormick's has tons of seasonings that makes it taste really good. Baked fish. Grilled tuna. Tons of veggies. Whole wheat everything. I even cut up wheat tortillas, put them in the oven and made low fat tortilla chips. Salsa with everything. Refried beans. Turkey sandwiches. Fat free mayo, cheese, and ranch. Big salads. I gave myself 2 cheat meals a week to keep my sanity. Cholesterol dropped 26%.

3 grams of mono in chicken is the same as 3 grams of mono is beef. 3 grams of poly in cake is the same as 3 grams of poly in cheese. That was his question.

Come to think of it, isn't the OP the same guy who posted a few days ago about cooking venison wrapped around cream cheese and some kind of pork sausage? Something like that I believe. If not, I apologize. If so, dude I hope that was a once in a great while cheat meal or something.