Calories 1 Lb Roast Beef Boars Head
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Boar's Head offers heart-healthy sandwich meats.
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Americans love their sandwiches, eating more than 300 million each day, according to the Arizona Farm Bureau. If you like meat on your sandwiches, Boar's Head offers a wide variety of options, including heart-healthy choices. Knowing the nutrition facts for Boar's Head meats can help you determine which ones work best for your diet.
Turkey Totals
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There are more than 15 different turkey lunch meat options to choose from.
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Boar's Head offers more than 15 different turkey lunch meat options, including all natural, smoked, honey and maple-flavored. If you're looking for a heart-healthy turkey lunch meat, the no-salt added, oven-roasted turkey makes a good option with 70 calories, 1 gram of total fat, 15 grams of protein and 55 milligrams of sodium per 2-ounce serving. The Maple Glazed Honey Coat Cured Turkey is a little higher in sodium, but is still a heart-healthy option, with 70 calories, 0.5 grams of total fat, 14 grams of protein, 2 grams of carbs and 440 milligrams of sodium per 2-ounce serving. Getting too much sodium in your diet increases your risk of high blood pressure, and processed foods like lunch meat are a source of sodium in your diet. For better health, limit your intake to less than 2,300 milligrams a day.
Chicken Nutrition
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You can pick from low-sodium or flavored options if you're in the mood for chicken.
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If you like chicken sandwiches, Boar's Head also offers a variety of choices, including low-sodium and flavored options. The Golden Classic Oven Roasted, 42-percent Lower Sodium Chicken makes a heart-healthy choice with 60 calories, 1 gram of total fat, 13 grams of protein and 350 milligrams of sodium, per 2-ounce serving. Or, try the Blazing Buffalo Style Roasted Chicken, that has 60 calories, 1 gram of total fat, 13 grams of protein and 460 milligrams of sodium in the same serving.
Beef Facts
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There are a variety of meats to choose from.
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Boar's Head beef options include roast beef, corned beef, and beef brisket, but none of them is a heart-healthy choice. The top-round roast beef has 80 calories, 2.5 grams of total fat, 1 gram of saturated fat, 13 grams of protein, 2 grams of carbs and 350 milligrams of sodium per 2-ounce serving. By comparison, the low-sodium roast beef is not a heart-healthy option, as it contains 90 calories, 3 grams of total fat, 1 gram of saturated fat, 15 grams of protein and 80 milligrams of sodium in a 2-ounce portion. Heart-healthy meats must contain 1 gram or less of saturated fat, and have 20 mg or less of cholesterol per serving, according to the American Heart Association. The top-round roast beef has 40 mgs of cholesterol and the low-sodium roast beef has 35 mgs of cholesterol.
Ham It Up
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There are heart healthy ham options as well.
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You'll find a few more heart-healthy ham lunch meat options from Boar's Head, including the All Natural Applewood Smoked Uncured Ham and Branded Deluxe Ham 42 Percent Lower Sodium. A 2-ounce portion of the heart-healthy Applewood smoked ham from Boar's Head contains 70 calories, 2 grams of total fat, 0.5 grams of saturated fat, 11 grams of protein, 1 gram of carbs and 440 milligrams of sodium, while the same serving of the lower-sodium, heart-healthy ham contains 60 calories, 1 gram of total fat, 10 grams of protein, 2 grams of carbs and 480 milligrams of sodium.
Bologna, Wursts and Loaves
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Less healthy options include bologna, wursts and loaces.
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None of the bologna, wursts or loaves from Boar's Head makes a heart-healthy lunch meat option. A 2-ounce portion of beef bologna contains 150 calories, 13 grams of total fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, 7 grams of protein and 520 milligrams of sodium. The Lite Braunschweiger Liverwurst is lower in sodium, but is still high in fat, with 120 calories, 8 grams of total fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 9 grams of protein, 1 gram of carbs and 450 milligrams of sodium per 2 ounces.
Source: https://www.livestrong.com/article/265399-nutrition-facts-on-boars-head-lunch-meat/
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