-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 18,1986
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Paula Mayewski, Lancaster County home economist, chats with Larry Ricker, Sussex,
N.J., as he took time out from his Farm Show visit to have his stress factor determined
by a computer program.
Learning about cholesterol in your diet was easy at the
Farm Show through a computer program by PSU. Here,
Montgomery County home economist Costelle Nelson works
with a visitor who details her weekly eating habits to be
analyzed by the computer.
Turkey: a
ITHACA, NY - Although many
people may not want to think about
turkey so soon after the holidays, it
may be a good time to give the
juicy bird a second thought for the
new year.
More than 40 percent of
Americans consider turkey to be a
special occasion dish only. Yet
when compared with other poultry
and meat, turkey comes out on top
when it comes to nutrition,
economy, and convenience, ac
cording to a recent Cornell
University study.
“Many cooks still think that to
have turkey on the table one must
go through a lot of hassle and end
up with a lot of leftovers,” says
Charlotte Bruce, a research
support specialist in the Depart
ment of Poultry and Avian
Sciences in the New York State
College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences at Cornell. Bruce and
Robert C. Baker, a professor and
chairman of the department,
conducted the study to examine
consumer attitudes toward turkey
and its products.
“Just as no one worries about
cooking an entire cow, you
shouldn’t think that to eat turkey
you have to cook the entire bird,”
Bruce points out.
In fact, turkey meat comes in as
many formats as chicken, if not
more. Readily available turkey
parts and products include
breasts, half breasts, breast
portions, breast slices, breast
tenderloins, drumsticks, wihgs,
wing portions, drumpttes, ground
turkey, hot dogs, ham,* sausage,
salami, and even pastrami.
Not only are many turkey
products, such as ground turkey,
turkey hot dogs, and smoked
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nutritious product for ell year
turkey sausage, significantly less
expensive than beef products, but
they also have a nutritional edge
over their beef and pork coun
terparts.
When 3 Vz ounces of skinless light
turkey meat are compared to
chicken, beef rib roast, lean pork
loin, adn lean ground beef, turkey
has the highest precentage of
protein with the lowest percentage
of fat. Turkey also is lowest in both
calories and cholesterol and has
one of the lowest percentages of
saturated fat.
Two ounces of turkey ham
contain about 2.5 grams of fat, for
example, while pork ham has more
than twice that amount. Fur
thermore, turkey ham has 45
percent fewer calories, much less
cholesterol, and costs about 25
percent less.
Likewise, turkey hot dogs have
35 percent less fat and 25 percent
fewer calories than beef hot dogs,
yet cost about 40 percent less.
“Turkey is not only high in
protein and low in calories, fat, and
cholesterol, but also it has more B
vitamins, niacin, and rbioflavin
than any other meat,” Baker says.
Despite these advantages,
Americans ate only about 11
pounds of turkey in 1984, compared
with 73 pounds of beef, 54 pounds of
chicken, and 53 pounds of pork.
About 10 percent of consumers
view turkey as a once- ortwice-a
year whole roasted bird, Baker
and Bruce report. About 60 percent
said they -never order it in
restaurants, and many consumers
are still unaware of many kinds of
turkey products.
The Compll study showed that
most consumers surveyed had a
preference for beef hot dogs over
K
turkey dogs. But, in a blind taste
test conducted at Cornell, one
brand of turkey hot dogs con
sistently rated the highest with
three different groups of tasters,
says Baker. He declined to specify
the brand name.
“Many people don’t realize it,
but turkey can be substituted as a
delicious, nutritious alternative for
many other meats,” Bruce points
out.
Turkey ham, for example, tastes
almost the same as traditional
ham. Ground turkey can almost
always be substituted for ground
beef, and turkey pastrami and
turkey salami make nutritional
sense because they are so low in
fat.
Bruce points out that some of
these turkey products taste very
similar to their beef and pork
counterparts, while other
processed turkey products such as
pastrami and salami have their
own distinctive characteristics.
Turkey parts often can be used in
place of chicken. Barbequed,
baked, and broiled turkey may be
a refreshing change from chicken,
and turkey breast fillets can be
substituted for veal in many
recipes.
“With its low cholesterol, low
fat, and high protein, turkey is a
wise meat alternative,” stresses
Baker. “Consumers should
remember that the roasted turkey
they eat once or twice a year is
merely a sum of its parts - those
parts are just as tasty as the big
bird, yet are much easier to
prepare.”
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Annville, PA
B H M Farm
Equipment, Inc
RD 1
717-867-2211
Beavertown, PA
B&R Farm
Equipment. Inc
RD 1, Box 217 A
717-658-7024
Belleville, PA
IvanJ Zook
Farm Equipment
Belleville, Pa
717-935-2948
Carlisle, PA
Paul Shovers, Inc
35 East Willow Street
717-243-2686
Chambersburg, PA
Clugston
Implement, Inc
RD 1
717 263-4103
Davidsburg, PA
George N Gross, Inc
R D 2, Dover, PA
717 292 1673
Elizabethtown, PA
Messick Farm
Equipment, Inc
Rt 283 Rheem's Exit
717 367 1319
Everett, PA
C Paul Ford & Son
RD 1
814-652 2051
Gettysburg, PA
Ymglmg Implements
RD 9
717-359 4848
Greencastle, PA
Meyers
Implement's Inc
400 N Antrim Way
P 0 Box 97
717-597-2176
Grove City, PA
McDowell Farm
Implement Co
Rt 173 North
814 786 7955
Halifax, PA
Sweigard Bros
R D 3 Box 13
717 896 3414
Hamburg, PA
Shartlesville
Farm Service
RD 1, Box 1392
215 488 1025
Honey Brook. PA
Dependable Motor Co
East Mam Street
215 273 3131
215 273 3737
Honey Grove, PA
Norman D Clark
& Son, Inc
Honey Grove PA
717 734 3682
Hughesville, PA
Farnsworth Farm
Supplies Inc
103 Cemetery Street
717 584 2106
Lancaster. PA
L H Brubaker Inc
350 Strasburg Pike
717 397-5179
Lebanon, PA
Keller Bros
Tractor Co
R D 7 Box 405
717 949 6501
Lititz, PA
Roy A Brubaker
700 Woodcrest Ave
717-626-7766
Loysville, PA
Paul Shovers, Inc
Loysville, PA
717-789-3117
Lynnport, PA
KermitK Kistler, Inc
Lynnport, PA
215-298-2011
Martinsburg, PA
Forshey’s, Inc
110 Forshey St
814-793-3791
Mill Hall. PA
Paul A Dotterer
RD 1
717 726 3471 •
New Holland, PA
ABC Groff, Inc
110 South Railroad
717 354 4191
New Park, PA
M&R Equipment Inc
P 0 Box 16
717 993 2511
Oley, PA
C J Wonsidler Bros
RD 2
215 987 6257
Pitman, PA
Marlin W Schreffler
Pitman, PA
717-648-1120
Quakertown, PA
CJ Wonsidler Bros
RD 1
215 536 1935
Quarryville, PA
C E Wiley & Son, Inc
101 South Lime Street
717-786-2895
Rmgtown, PA
Rmgtown Farm
Equipment
Rmgtown PA
717 889 3184
Tamaqua, PA
Charles S Snyder Inc
R D 3
717 386 5954
West Chester, PA
M S Yearsley & Son
114 116 East
Market Street
215 696 2990
West Grove, PA
S G Lewis & Son Inc
RD 2 80x66
215 869 2214
Churchville, MO
WalterG Coale Inc
2849 53
Churchville Rd
301 734 7722 J
Washington, NJ
Frank Rymon & Sons
201 689-1464
Woodstown, NJ
Owen Supply Co
Broad Street &
East Avenue
609 769 0308