As the name indicates, turtle soup contains turtle meat, but it also contains butter, eggs and other high-fat ingredients, so it is high in calories. If you are dieting, you should carefully assess the nutrition information for turtle soup before eating it.
Calories
Taste of Home magazine explains that 1 cup of turtle soup contains 325 calories. To burn off this many calories, you would have to play volleyball for more than an hour to burn off the calories in 1 cup of turtle soup.
Fat
The nutrition information provided by Taste of Home magazine indicates that 1 cup of turtle soup contains 18 g of fat. Of this fat, 8 g comes from saturated fat. The American Heart Association explains that you should limit your daily saturated fat intake to 16 g per day, as this type of fat is unhealthy.
Carbohydrates
Turtle soup is relatively low in carbohydrates, according to Taste of Home. One cup of this soup contains only 13 g of carbohydrates, with 1 g of fiber. (
Protein
Turtle soup is rich in protein. Taste of Home explains that 1 cup of turtle soup contains 27 g of protein. According to the National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine, you should consume between 50 and 65 g of protein per day.
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