Which is healthier: bacon or sausage?

Answer 1

It will depend on the maker of the product.

Good sausage is ground "trim", the bits of pork loin, chops, roasts and other "good" pieces, mixed with a percentage of fat, some spices and salt.

Bad sausage is... too gross to contemplate.

Good bacon is salt/sugar cured pork belly, smoked lovingly and kept chilled until slicing

Bad bacon is nitrate/nitrite injected, thin sliced fat, swimming in salt, vacuum sealed and tossed into indifferent cooling bins awaiting your arrival.

Know your butcher, read the labels, buy the good stuff, and don't trust even your friends to tell you which is which.

Best wishes!

Answer 2

Sausage Or Bacon Healthier

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Like a lot of things, it depends.

Good bacon, fried crisp and drained is still high in fat... and nitrited to keep it pink.

Poor bacon fried flabby is full of fat. And who knows how much polyphosphate to hold onto the extra water.

Good sausages have fat in them, they also have rusk to soak up the fat... so more of it stays in.

Poor sausages... . Lips and bits isn't the end of it... do you know that beef can go into pork sausages and pork into beef ones quite legally (in the UK that is, not sure of US regulations)? Cheap sausages can be nothing but fat, filler and mechanically recovered meat... and may not even have much meat in them. And who knows if the makers *really* comply with the regulations? How healthy is a gangland disappearance sausage?

The short answer - either can be healthier depending how well sourced and made they are, but neither is outright healthy in quantity. Bacon's got more chance, because you can see that it came from an animal in one piece. Vegetarian 'mock bacon' is even healthier!

Answer 5

See the following from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/29/earlyshow/health/main658109.shtml


BACON OR SAUSAGE?
These items contain about the same amount of protein, but sausage has twice the calories and fat. Bacon has gotten bad rap, but a slice of bacon can take you a long way. You can crumble a piece of bacon over a salad and use it for its flavor. And when you're getting that breakfast sandwich, you're better off going with the bacon and egg, not the sausage and egg.

Bacon per slice: 42 calories, 3 grams protein, 3 grams fat (1 gram saturated), 192 milligrams sodium

Sausage per link: 82 calories, 4 grams protein, 7 grams fat (2.6 grams saturated), 201 milligrams sodium

Answer 6

Bacon should be "healthier" than sausage, but neither are generally healthy due to high fat content and harmful chemicals generated by smoking meats. While you're at it, get turkey bacon so the carcinogenic effect is lesser than other smoked products, and the fat content is lower than traditional pork bacon.

Answer 7

Bacon is healthier than sausage. Drain the grease off though before you eat it.

Answer 8

Bacon but it also depends on how you cook it if you fry bacon in a skillet and then cook sausage on a george forman grill then the sausage would be more healthier

Answer 9

depends, if you poke holes in the sausage to let it drain, then its about as healthy as bacon, but bacon still tastes better...

oh and sausage isnt just random things put into the casing, its actual good parts of the animal. people are far to inclined to believe the fairy tale that its the leftover bits of animals no one wanted.

Answer 10

i would have to say bacon, microwave the bacon to capture the fatty grease, and your left with a denatured protein. Sausage on the other hand is completely composted of the fattiest portions of combined meat products, and held together with even more fatty substances.

people use the bacon more frequently on a low carb diet, but caloric value is based on an individuals diet.

speaking of fattys, i need to smoke one.