Pork chop, pan-fried

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

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Absorption studies

Studies of how much of a nutrient gets in; those done in animals are marked. This page quotes a figure only from a study that passes our screen: adults, graded A, of this food in this preparation, with a test dose on record and a source that has passed our evidence check. The exception is calcium on our calcium card: its figure comes from the card’s own study, checked with the card, and is marked “used” even where that study misses a step of this screen. The others are listed so nothing is hidden, each with the first check it fails.

No study of this food passes the screen yet, so no absorption figure is quoted.

Hazard rows as the dataset rates them

• Alpha-gal syndrome · Worth knowing · Flagged for people with alpha-gal syndrome: the US CDC lists mammalian meat, pork included, as a trigger. · US CDC, About alpha-gal syndrome · A
• Arsenic, all forms · Context · Context only: total arsenic, no reference value; the inorganic share is not measured in these data. FDA pan-cooked pork chop: 27 of 27 below 3 µg/kg. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.36% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Charring compounds · Context · Context: IARC says there were not enough data to conclude whether the cooking method changes cancer risk. · IARC 2015 · B
• Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe limit is set for lead (EFSA 2010 benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL01) of 0.5 µg/kg body weight/day, developmental neurotoxicity), so no grams figure is given. Health Canada's total diet study gives a mean of 1.9886 ng/g in cooked pork chop (17 composites), 0.1989 µg in a 100 g serving. The FDA found lead below its 4 µg/kg reporting limit in 27 of 27 pan-cooked chops. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Mercury, all forms · Context · Context (mercury in a non-fish food; methylmercury is rated in fish). Nothing to rate: not detected. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Nickel · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's 2020 tolerable daily intake (TDI) for nickel is 13 µg/kg body weight/day, 910 µg a day for 70 kg. Eaten alone, about 5,719 g of cooked chop a day would reach it, an upper bound because it uses the lower-bound mean of 159.13 µg/kg. Health Canada's 2000-2012 and 2016-2018 samples differ four-fold, and the FDA found no nickel in 27 of 27 pan-cooked chops (reporting limit 40 µg/kg), which agrees better with the later figure. A 100 g serving carries 15.91 µg. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Purines and gout · Not rated yet · Not rated for people with gout or hyperuricemia: the only reference is a Japanese dietary recommendation of 400 mg purines a day, seen through Kaneko 2014 rather than an agency document, so no reference is established. Kaneko 2014 has no pork loin row; its pork sirloin measures 90.9 mg purines per 100 g (HPLC, four purine bases), and its nine pork cuts 70.5 to 119.7. No fried figure was found, so that value stands in. A 100 g serving carries about 91 mg. For scale only, 400 mg would be reached at about 440 g. · Kaneko 2014 · C
• Red meat (IARC Group 2A) · Context · A hazard classification, not a risk or a limit (limited epidemiological evidence for colorectal cancer, strong mechanistic evidence). · IARC 2015 · A
• Sodium · Context · Context: Health Canada's chronic disease risk reduction intake (CDRR) for sodium is 2,300 mg a day. A 100 g pan-fried chop carries 94 mg on the USDA listing, 4.1% of it; about 2,450 g would reach it. FDA's Total Diet Study measured 112 mg per 100 g in US chops as eaten, with a spread (490 to 3,300 ppm) that suggests added salt or brine in some samples. · US food database (USDA SR Legacy) · C

Sources

• US CDC, About alpha-gal syndrome
  cdc-alpha-gal-about · page · US government work (17 USC 105), public domain
• Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
  cnf-2026 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• US FDA, Total Diet Study FY2018–FY2020 Elements Report Supplement
  fda-tds-fy2018-2020 · dataset · US government work (17 USC 105), public domain
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
  fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• Health Canada. Total Diet Study trace elements, open.canada.ca dataset 83934503, English resource 9c988c19-07ae-4aa4-8496-84658b6b0c45; composites pooled as an equal-weight mean per TDS food code, non-detects stored as 0.
  hc-tds-trace-elements-open-canada · secondary source · Open Government Licence - Canada
• IARC, Q&A on the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat (2015)
  iarc-vol114-qa-2015 · full text read · IARC 2015, all rights reserved
• Kaneko K, et al. (2014) Total purine and purine base content of common foodstuffs for facilitating nutritional therapy for gout and hyperuricemia. Biol Pharm Bull 37(5):709-721 · doi:10.1248/bpb.b13-00967 · PMID 24553148
  kaneko-2014-purines · secondary source · J-STAGE open access
• Bügel S, Sandström B (2004). Pork meat: a good source of selenium? J Trace Elem Med Biol · PMID 15139393
  pmid:15139393 · abstract only · licence not recorded

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.