Turkey Nutrition Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating recommends choosing lower fat foods more often and including leaner meats and poultry in our diets. With the variety of fresh cuts available today, we can easily incorporate turkey into our daily menus. BC turkey sausage, turkey burgers, turkey steaks, kebobs or cutlets, turkey chili and turkey stew are just a few of the choices we have. Turkey provides us with an excellent source of protein and niacin and is a good source of phosphorus.
Turkey contains less fat.
Turkey contains less cholesterol. The small amount of fat in turkey is mainly unsaturated.