Subscribe to Food News, our free email newsletter, and receive fantastic tips, recipes, and information. A 3-ounce portion of pork has about 100 calories, with only about a quarter of them coming from fat. The white meat of a chicken has slightly fewer calories, with about 12 percent from fat.
Dark meat is slightly higher than pork both in calories and in fat.
If you've been taught that pork has to be prepared well-done, forget it. We've pretty much wiped out the organism in this country, but it's killed at 137 degrees anyway. Anatomically, the tenderloin cut is to pork what filet mignon is to beef. They come from the same part of the animal a small strip of meat running along the backbone. The pork tenderloin is, of course, smaller.