SERVING SIZES OF MEAT

Calorie counts for many meat and poultry items in the Calorie Table are for 3 ounces of cooked meat. Many people have difficulty judging how their servings compare with a 3-ounce serving.

The following sketches can help to estimate serving sizes of meats. The sketch of the hamburger patty represents the approximate size and thickness of a 3-ounce serving. Two slices of meat or three slices of poultry of the size and thickness shown equal about 3 ounces. If your serving is larger or smaller, thicker or thinner, than the serving pictured, adjust the number of calories accordingly.


INDEX TO THE CALORIE TABLE

Foods are listed alphabetically under the food group in the Calorie Table.

Alcoholic beverages Bacon Bagel Banana bread Barbecue sauce Bean salad Beans and peas, dry Beans, baked Beef Beverages Biscuits Breads Breakfast sandwich Brownies Butter Cakes Candy Carbonated beverages Catsup Cereals, ready-to-eat and cooked Cheeses Cheeseburger Cheese curls or puffs Chicken Chili Chocolate chips, semisweet Chocolate milk Coconut Coffee Coffeecake Condiments Cookies Cornbread Corn chips Crackers Cream cheese Creams Creams, imitation Croissant Custard Danish pastry Doughnuts Eggnog Egg roll Eggs Enchilada English muffin Fast food entrees Fats Fish Fish sandwich Frankfurters Fried rice Fruit drinks Fruit juice bars Fruits Gelatin Granola bars Gravies Half-and-half Ham Hamburger Honey Horseradish Ice cream Ice milk Jams Jellies Juices, fruit Juices, vegetable Lamb Lasagna Liver Luncheon meats Macaroni Macaroni and cheese Malted milk Margarine Meats Milk Mixed dishes Muffins Mustard Noodles Nuts Oils Olives Organ meats Pancakes Pasta Peanut butter Peas, dry Pickles Pies Pizza Popcorn Popsicle Pork Pork rinds Potato chips Potpies Poultry Pretzels Puddings Quiche lorraine Quick breads Relish, sweet Rice Rolls Salad dressings Sausages Seeds Shakes, thick Shellfish Sherbet Snack foods Soups Sour cream Soy sauce Spaghetti Spaghetti with sauce Steak sauce Stew Sugars Syrups Table spread Taco Tartar sauce Tea Turkey Veal Vegetables Waffles Yogurt Yogurt, frozen

FOR MORE INFORMATION

* Contact your local county Extension agent, public health nutritionist, or dietitian in hospitals or other community agencies.

* Look through cookbooks in your local library for low-calorie recipes. Evaluate the recipes on the basis of what you have read here about weight control and the calories and nutrients provided by food.

* Contact the Human Nutrition Information Service (HNIS) for information on the Dietary Guidelines and other current publications about food, nutrition, and health. The address is U.S. Department of Agriculture, HNIS, Room 325-A, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782.

March 1990 U.S.G.P.O. 1990 257-762/20091
 

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