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{{Short description|Meat prepared from chopped, formed, cured, and smoked turkey}}
[[File:Turkey Bacon.jpg|thumb|right|A package of turkey bacon from a U.S. supermarket]]
'''Turkey bacon''' is a meat prepared from chopped, formed, [[curing (food preservation)|cured]], and [[smoking (cooking)|smoked]] [[turkey meat|turkey]], commonly marketed as a low-fat alternative to pork [[bacon]]; it may also be used as a substitute for bacon where [[religious restrictions on the consumption of pork| religious dietary
==Preparation==
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==Alternative to pork bacon==
Turkey bacon is lower in fat and [[calorie]]s than pork bacon, but its lower fat content makes it unsuitable in some situations, such as grilling.<ref name="beef">{{cite news|url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30478911/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503134850/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30478911/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 3, 2009|title=Eat cheap but well! Make a tasty beef in beer|date= April 30, 2009|publisher=MSNBC|access-date=2009-05-14}}</ref> It is also known as "facon" , which is
Turkey bacon is an alternative also for people who do not eat pork for religious or dietary reasons. Pork is haram (not [[halal]]) to [[Muslims]] and treyf (not [[kosher]]) to [[Jews]]. When Beautiful Brands International, a company from [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], signed a deal with a [[Saudi Arabia]]n firm to open 120 locations in eight countries in the Middle East, they had to
==Nutritional value==
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Two strips of [[Butterball]] turkey bacon contain 3 grams of [[fat]] and 50 [[calories]] (32% of which from fat); turkey bacon from Louis Rich and Mr. Turkey contain 5 and 4 grams of fat, respectively, per two slices. By comparison, two strips of regular pork bacon contain, on average, some 7 grams of fat.<ref>{{cite book
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| isbn = 978-1-58333-099-9}}</ref> Andrew Smith, in ''[[The Turkey: An American Story]]'', notes that turkey products (including turkey bacon) contain, on average twice as much [[sodium]] as the pork products they replace.<ref>{{cite book
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