If you're eating a healthier diet but miss sausage, you may be thinking about trying the turkey version of this traditional breakfast meat. While calorie and fat intake is important, it's also necessary to look at all the nutritional facts when comparing pork and turkey sausage.
Types
Jimmy Dean offers raw and pre-cooked sausage varieties. Their turkey sausage options come pre-cooked in link, patty and crumbled forms.
Calorie Information
A serving of three Jimmy Dean turkey sausage links contains 120 calories, as do two Jimmy Dean turkey sausage patties. A serving of the turkey sausage crumbles contains 90 calories; one serving is two-thirds of a cup. If you're having egg whites along with your sausage, the whites from one large egg contain about 17.4 calories, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Considerations
Keep in mind that while turkey sausage may have less calories and saturated fat, it may have more sodium or cholesterol than pork sausage. In an equal serving of Jimmy Dean pre-cooked pork sausage and turkey sausage links, the turkey sausage has 40 more mg of sodium and 10 more mg of cholesterol. Be sure to read nutrition labels thoroughly.
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