Lean Ground Turkey
Turkey in the Midwest · down 8% this week
Per a typical 113g serving, scaled from the per-100g figures in USDA FoodData Central (Turkey, ground, 93% lean, 7% fat, raw).
- 1 MidwestCheapest $4.80/lb
- 2 Southcentral $5.01/lb
- 3 Northeast $5.07/lb
- 4 Southeast $5.07/lb
- 5 Northwest $5.58/lb
- 6 Southwest $5.94/lb
Buying lean ground turkey in the Midwest saves about 19% versus the Southwest this week.
- How to pick a good one
- Usually 99 percent lean breast meat, and the leanest common ground protein sold. Worth buying only when you genuinely want that, because there is almost no fat to carry flavour or keep it moist.
- What a good price looks like
- Usually $4.50 to $7 a pound and among the dearest ground meats. Under $5 is a fair price. It is bought for its macros rather than its value, and on protein per dollar it is beaten comfortably by chicken thighs and by 93/7 beef — worth knowing if the goal is protein rather than minimal fat.
- What you actually get
- A pound cooks to roughly 13 oz, the highest yield of any ground meat because there is almost no fat to render. That is one genuine advantage: more of the purchased weight reaches the plate.
- How to store it
- One to two days refrigerated, three to four months frozen.
- In the kitchen
- The 93/7 or 99/1 breast-only grind is the leanest ground meat sold and the hardest to cook well. Treat it like a lean fish: gentle heat, short cooking, and moisture added from outside — grated onion, stock, yoghurt, or oil worked in before shaping. Cooked past just-done it becomes granular and there is no recovering it.
- Getting the most out of it
- Very high protein for the calories, which is the reason to buy it. Cook it gently and stop as soon as it is done. It works best in dishes with their own sauce or fat — chilli, curries, saucy pasta — and poorly as a plain patty.
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Price from the USDA weekly retail meat report (conventional, per lb). Nutrition per typical serving, computed from USDA FoodData Central.
Lean Ground Turkey — FAQ
What's the price of lean ground turkey this week?
As of the week of September 4, 2026, the price of lean ground turkey in the Midwest is $4.80/lb, down 8% from last week. Prices come from the USDA's weekly retail meat report.
Which region has the cheapest lean ground turkey right now?
The Midwest has the cheapest lean ground turkey this week at $4.80/lb — about 19% less than the Southwest, where it runs $5.94/lb.
How much protein is in lean ground turkey?
A typical 113g serving of lean ground turkey has about 21.1g protein and 170 calories (9.4g fat), per USDA FoodData Central.
What can I cook with lean ground turkey?
SeasonSort indexes 69 recipes using lean ground turkey, each priced per serving from this week's data — starting from about $0.25 a serving. The cheapest are listed on this page, with a link to the full filtered list.