Ground turkey, 93% lean, cooked

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.

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

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

• Arsenic, all forms · Context · Context: total arsenic, no reference value; the inorganic share is not measured here. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.29% 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. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Charring compounds · Context · Context. IARC's Group 2A classification covers red meat (mammalian muscle meat), not turkey. · 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), so no grams figure is given. The headline is Health Canada's mixed chicken-and-turkey composite (mean 1.5341 ng/g, 17 composites, none non-detect), because the FDA found no lead in 27 of 27 ground turkey composites (reporting limit 4 ppb) and so has no mean. A serving carries 0.092 µg. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · B
• Mercury, all forms · Context · Context (mercury in a non-fish food). 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. Eaten alone, about 102,247 g of pan-cooked ground turkey a day would reach it. The FDA mean is 8.9 ppb across 27 composites (85.2% non-detects), so the mean is uncertain and its bound is not stated. A serving carries 0.534 µg. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Sodium · Context · Context: Health Canada's chronic disease risk reduction intake (CDRR) for sodium is 2,300 mg a day. A 60 g serving carries 54 mg on the USDA listing, 2.3% of it; about 2,560 g would reach it. FDA's Total Diet Study measured about the same in US ground turkey as eaten (91 mg per 100 g). · US food database (USDA SR Legacy) · C

Sources

• 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
• Hodgkinson SM, Stroebinger N, Stein HH, Fanelli NS, de Vries S, van der Wielen N, et al. True ileal amino acid digestibility of human foods classified according to food type as determined in the growing pig. J Nutr 2025;155:3384-3400. · doi:10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.08.004 · PMID 40812478
  pq_hodgkinson2025 · full text read · CC BY (Europe PMC licence field)

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.