How much protein is in cooked ground pork?

Cooked ground pork has 25.7 g of protein per 100 g and 21.8 g per 3 oz (85 g). That is 8.7 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.

Should pork and bacon be weighed raw or cooked?

Weigh it in whichever state you log it, and use the row that matches — this page is the cooked row. Cooking does not change how many calories are there, only how many grams they are spread across: meat loses water in the pan and gets denser, grains and pasta absorb it and get lighter per gram.

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Pork and baconUSDA SR LegacyFDC 167903

Calories in cooked ground pork

USDA FoodData Central record for “Pork, fresh, ground, cooked” — per 100 g, per every USDA serving size, and next to the other pork and bacon rows.

The short answer

Cooked ground pork: 297 kcal per 100 g. 3 oz (85 g) is 252 kcal with 21.8 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 167903, "Pork, fresh, ground, cooked".

Per 100 g

Nutrient	Per 100 g	Share of energy
Energy	297 kcal	100%
Protein	25.7 g	35%
Fat	20.8 g	63%
Carbohydrate	0 g	0%

Cooked ground pork is 297 kcal per 100 g in USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy). Of that energy, about 35% comes from protein, 63% from fat and 0% from carbohydrate. That works out to 8.7 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.

Per serving

The serving sizes USDA lists for this record, priced from the per-100 g figures above. Nothing here is rounded to a “portion” — the gram weight next to each label is what the calories are computed from.

Serving	Weight	Calories	Protein	Fat	Carbs
100 g	100 g	297	25.7 g	20.8 g	0 g
3 oz	85 g	252	21.8 g	17.7 g	0 g

Compared with other pork and bacon

Food	kcal / 100 g	Protein / 100 g	Per serving
Raw pork tenderloin	109	21 g	123 kcal · 4 oz
Roasted pork tenderloin	143	26.2 g	121 kcal · 3 oz
Broiled pork tenderloin	187	30.4 g	159 kcal · 3 oz
Raw ground pork	263	16.9 g	298 kcal · 4 oz
Cooked ground pork	297	25.7 g	252 kcal · 3 oz
Raw bacon	393	13.7 g	110 kcal · 1 slice raw
Baked bacon	548	35.7 g	44 kcal · 1 slice cooked
Microwaved bacon	476	39 g	43 kcal · 1 slice cooked

The pork and bacon rows exist in more than one state because water moves during cooking: this is the cooked row. Weigh the food in the state you log and pick the row that matches — the calories don’t change in the pan, the grams do. The mechanics are in cooked vs raw weights.

Questions about cooked ground pork

How many calories are in cooked ground pork?: Cooked ground pork: 297 kcal per 100 g. 3 oz (85 g) is 252 kcal with 21.8 g of protein. Source: USDA FoodData Central record 167903, "Pork, fresh, ground, cooked".
How much protein is in cooked ground pork?: Cooked ground pork has 25.7 g of protein per 100 g and 21.8 g per 3 oz (85 g). That is 8.7 g of protein per 100 kcal — a solid protein-per-calorie ratio for a whole food.
Should pork and bacon be weighed raw or cooked?: Weigh it in whichever state you log it, and use the row that matches — this page is the cooked row. Cooking does not change how many calories are there, only how many grams they are spread across: meat loses water in the pan and gets denser, grains and pasta absorb it and get lighter per gram.

How calorie.one logs it

Type “cooked ground pork” into calorie.one and the app matches this exact record — “Pork, fresh, ground, cooked” — estimates the grams, and shows the line with its USDA label. You correct the amount; the per-100 g figure is never guessed. That split between recognition and arithmetic is the whole methodology. For the numbers in context, read Calories in olive oil, butter and cooking fats.