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What's Healthier- Ways to cook Pork vs. Turkey bacon?

Asked by BBSDTfamily (6839points) September 23rd, 2009

Just wondering which is healthier, b/c I do not want to lie to my husband about this! I refuse to eat any pork at all anymore so we eat turkey bacon here. He thinks cooking pork bacon on paper towels in the microwave is healthier than cooking turkey bacon in a skillet with a little bit of butter. I hear turkey bacon is healthier than pork, but how much healthier? When they’re cooked these different ways, is turkey bacon still healthier?

(The reason I asked about these two specific ways is b/c these are the ways we cook/used to cook them- turkey bacon only tastes like pork bacon if it’s cooked in a little bitty bit of butter. But we dry them both on paper towels.)

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DarkScribe's avatar

Turkey is regarded as one of the more healthy meats, but recent finding have indicated that ANY salted meats, ham, bacon, corned beef, salami, etc., cause a large increase in cancer risk. I love bacon, but the reports were convincing enough to make me give it up after a lifetime of enjoying it. It, as always, comes back to personal choice.

oratio's avatar

@DarkScribe Any reference to that report?

DarkScribe's avatar

@oratio DarkScribe Any reference to that report?

It was the biggest cancer report in several decades, made most media. Women’s magazines etc., for months last year. It emphasised the negativity of nitrite/nitrate used for salting meat and in Salami style sausages as increasing risk. I just Googled on cancer risk, bacon sausage, ham etc., and got many thousands of hits.
Things like this: Cancer

and this: Cancer report

and this WHO Cancer report

oratio's avatar

@DarkScribe Good. I just wanted to read it. I am a bit ambivalent to all these cancer cause alarms. Every year you get cancer from something else mundane. When it comes to eating meat, I have little doubt it’s unhealthy.

uniquenewyork's avatar

Everything in moderation, right? But Turkey bacon is generally healthier says my physician.

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