Calories in Frankfurter and Turkey Salami, Bacon, Ham

By NYUS Inc. · Published 27 October 2026

A sausage in a roll, a slice of salami or ham in a sandwich, a rasher of bacon with eggs: each can be logged by the piece or the slice, and USDA's piece weights here run from 8.1 g to 70 g. This guide gives six reference rows from USDA FoodData Central for chicken, turkey and meatless versions, each with the piece or slice weight USDA prints on the record. They are generic US records, not a brand and not a shop's own sausage, and Indian food tables (IFCT 2017) have no sausage, salami, bacon or ham slice row at all.

The short answer

By the USDA records below, one chicken frankfurter (a 45 g link) is about 100 kcal, and so is one turkey frankfurter (45 g). A 28 g serving of cooked turkey salami is about 48 kcal, one slice of microwaved turkey bacon (8.1 g) about 30 kcal, and a 20 g cubic inch of extra lean turkey ham about 27 kcal. The meatless frankfurter record (70 g) is about 163 kcal. Our reading: per 100 g the rows run from 134 kcal (turkey ham) to 368 kcal (turkey bacon), but the pieces are so different in weight that the slice or link you eat decides the number: a bacon slice is 8.1 g, a salami serving 28 g and a frankfurter 45 g. Two slices of bacon are 2 × 8.1 = 16.2 g, about 60 kcal by our arithmetic.

Calories per piece

Each figure is our arithmetic: kcal per 100 g times the grams in the piece, divided by 100, rounded to the nearest kcal with half rounding up. The piece weights are USDA's, printed on each record page, except the two-slice bacon row, which is our doubling of the one-slice weight.

The sums: meatless frankfurter 233 × 70 / 100 = 163.1, so 163 kcal; chicken frankfurter 223 × 45 / 100 = 100.35, so 100; turkey frankfurter 223 × 45 / 100 = 100.35, so 100; turkey salami 172 × 28 / 100 = 48.16, so 48; turkey bacon 368 × 8.1 / 100 = 29.81, so 30, and 368 × 16.2 / 100 = 59.62, so 60; turkey ham 134 × 20 / 100 = 26.8, so 27 kcal. Protein, fat and carbohydrate are the same arithmetic on the per 100 g figures, rounded to 0.1 g with half rounding up.

Bigger portions USDA prints

What stands out in the numbers

• Per 100 g the rows run from 134 to 368 kcal: turkey bacon 368, meatless frankfurter 233, chicken and turkey frankfurters 223 each, turkey salami 172 and turkey ham 134.
• Piece weight beats the per 100 g figure. Turkey bacon has the highest figure per 100 g but only about 30 kcal per slice, because USDA's slice is 8.1 g; a 45 g frankfurter is about 100 kcal.
• Protein per 100 g, as printed: turkey bacon 29.5 g, meatless frankfurter 19.6 g, turkey ham 19.6 g, turkey salami 19.2 g, chicken frankfurter 15.5 g and turkey frankfurter 12.2 g.
• Fat per 100 g, as printed: turkey bacon 25.9 g, turkey frankfurter 17.3 g, chicken frankfurter 16.2 g, meatless frankfurter 13.7 g, turkey salami 9.21 g and turkey ham 5.8 g.

Why these are reference rows, not your pack

• Generic US records. The names are USDA's record names: a chicken frankfurter, a turkey frankfurter, cooked turkey salami, microwaved turkey bacon, sliced turkey ham and a meatless frankfurter. A chicken sausage, a salami or a ham from an Indian shop or a deli has its own recipe and can differ.
• Cooked state. The bacon record is microwaved; fried in oil it differs, and any oil you add is a separate food. The other records are as USDA lists them.
• Pork and beef are not covered. USDA also has pork and beef bacon, ham, sausage and salami records; this page uses only the chicken, turkey and meatless ones.
• USDA's own notes. The source notes on the record pages differ by nutrient (for example "Analytical", "Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI))" and "Estimated formulation based on ingredient list; Linear program used to estimate ingredients; Analytical data"); each describes a product USDA looked at, not every product.
• For a packaged product, the pack wins. This page uses no pack labels, so it does not mix them with the six records.

How to log it so the numbers hold

• Count the pieces. Two frankfurters are 2 × 100.35 = 200.7, so about 201 kcal; log the number you eat, not "a serving".
• Weigh the slice when you can. A deli slice can be thicker than USDA's; weigh it once and scale from the per 100 g column.
• Log the bun, bread and sauce separately. Our bread and naan guide gives bread and our spreads guide gives mayonnaise and ketchup.
• Do not mix sources inside one day. If you log a packet from its own pack, keep to the pack.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

We make NYUS, so read this as ours. NYUS is an AI fitness and nutrition coach in early access on Android, with no ads and no data selling. You log foods yourself by searching 8,900+ Indian and global foods or by barcode, and a weekly check-in adjusts your calories, macros and step goal once enough is logged. Barcode coverage of Indian packaged foods is not complete, so search by name when a scan finds nothing.

What this page leaves out

• A calorie, protein or fat target, and any claim about what these foods do to your weight or health: we have not looked up one for any person, so we give none. If you have a medical condition, ask your doctor or dietitian.
• Any named brand, pack label or FSSAI figure: not used, so the page does not mix label numbers with the records above.
• Pork and beef products, canned meats, Italian-style and other sausages with no piece weight on the record, pepperoni, and cooked home sausage dishes: not covered here. Raw chicken and mutton cuts are in our per piece meat guide.
• An IFCT 2017 comparison: IFCT 2017 has no sausage, salami, bacon, frankfurter or ham slice row (we searched all 585 pages of the PDF on 27 Oct 2026 for sausage, salami, bacon, frankfurter, hot dog, ham, cold cut, processed meat, luncheon and bologna; the only match is O050 Pork, ham, a raw pork cut in the meat tables, which is not a sliced ham, and we do not use it).
• Nutrients beyond energy, protein, fat and carbohydrate, including sodium: not covered here.

Sources

• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 171624 (Frankfurter, chicken): Energy 223 kcal, protein 15.5 g, total fat 16.2 g, carbohydrate 2.74 g per 100 g; household portions printed on the record: 3 oz 85 g, 1 link 45 g (read 27 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 171625 (Frankfurter, turkey): Energy 223 kcal, protein 12.2 g, total fat 17.3 g, carbohydrate 3.81 g per 100 g; household portions: 1 oz 28.35 g, 1 frankfurter 45 g (read 27 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 172937 (Salami, cooked, turkey): Energy 172 kcal, protein 19.2 g, total fat 9.21 g, carbohydrate 1.55 g per 100 g; household portion: 1 serving 28 g (read 27 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 171639 (Bacon, turkey, microwaved): Energy 368 kcal, protein 29.5 g, total fat 25.9 g, carbohydrate 4.24 g per 100 g; household portion: 1 slice 8.1 g (read 27 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 168092 (Ham, turkey, sliced, extra lean, prepackaged or deli): Energy 134 kcal, protein 19.6 g, total fat 5.8 g, carbohydrate 0.93 g per 100 g; household portions: 1 cup pieces 138 g, 1 cubic inch 20 g (read 27 Oct 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 169887 (Frankfurter, meatless): Energy 233 kcal, protein 19.6 g, total fat 13.7 g, carbohydrate 7.7 g per 100 g; household portions: 1 cup, sliced 140 g, 1 frankfurter 70 g (read 27 Oct 2026).
• ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017), PDF searched on 27 Oct 2026 for processed meat terms: no sausage, salami, bacon or frankfurter row; O050 Pork, ham is a raw pork cut and is not used.
• nyus.in, the NYUS landing page, read on 27 Oct 2026 for the app statements in the NYUS section and the CTA.

The per portion figures, the sums, the rounding, the two-slice bacon row, the comparisons and every sentence starting "Our reading" are NYUS's own arithmetic or opinion, not from USDA. The portion weights in the tables are USDA's, printed on the record pages above, except the two-slice bacon row. The names in the first column are USDA's record names, shortened for ham.

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