Can you lose weight by eating pork rinds? Apparently they have a lot of saturated fat but little or no carbohydrates. According to the Atkins diet, if you eat very little carbohydrates and a great deal of protein and fat, your body will begin burning fat instead and you will lose weight. I am currently diabetic and can not eat many of the high carb snacks, but a few of these pork rinds and I really feel that I had something to eat that will not spike my blood sugars. Has anyone out there lost weight on these pork rinds?
Atkid going on 9 yrs
The problem with pork rinds is that they contain transfat which while you will loose weight will most likely cause your good cholerterol to go down and your bad to go up.
I hate it when I type a reply and it disappears into the World Wide Waste. But the answer is Yes. People can lose some weight by eating highly salted pork skin deep fried in lard and it will not blip your blood sugar. But, as Dave correctly points out, your heart may explode.
Appetizing pictures and nutritional facts are here:
http://www.wilstar.net/porkrinds/about.htm
Um… eating a diet exclusively in pork rinds isn’t going to be healthy, and just eating everything you want in addition to pork rinds isn’t going to be healthy, so I’m not sure what you’re expecting. It’s not like saturated fat does wonders for your body.
If you did eat exclusively pork rinds, you’d lose weight, yes, but you’d be deprived of lots of micronutrients.
Atkid going on 9 yrs
The problem with pork rinds is that they contain transfat which while you will loose weight will most likely cause your good cholerterol to go down and your bad to go up.
Try Lowreys Bacon Curls. Microwaveable pork rinds. They are a lot better than anything you’ll find in bags and actually not that bad for you. An entire bag (which is 3.5 servings… yeah right) contains 7g of total fat, no saturated fat, 31.5g protein and 16g Cholesterol.
Don’t know if you’ll drop pounds with them but they are awful tasty.
Turbo, are you sure that shouldn’t be 16 MG cholesterol rather than 16G? That would be over half an ounce of cholesterol, which seems unlikely and highly dangerous. I don’t eat pork rinds, and if that’s the real cholesterol count, I don’t want to start now either.
Sorry to hi-jack…
But what exactly IS a pork rind? I’ve seen and eaten them…But what are they?
Pork rind = pig skin, case in point, pig skin that’s been heated to blister. To eat it, or use as a football, that is the question…
Following up on Turbo Dog’s recommendation. I wouldn’t touch a pork rind coming from one of those “potato chip” bags. Take a look at the analysis and shudder.
On the other hand, I’m now a regular user of microwaveable pork rinds. Much yummier, and healthier.
Here’s an ABC news story on pork rinds and dieting http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/porkrinds.html. But note that they probably aren’t talking about the microwaveable sort.
Apparently there are even kosher pork rinds, which I find strange. Kosher food experts, comment? http://www.porkrind.com/media.htm
My mistake. 16mg of Cholesterol, not grams. Thanks Jane.
Also, the whole bag is 180 calories, 45 fat calories. They are really hard to beat.
Pork rinds aren’t pig skin. Rather, they’re the layer of fat from underneath the pig skin.
You can have your football and eat it, too.
Hmm. Seems to be a little ambiguity on the use of the term “pork skins”, as reported by: http://www.porkskins.com/porkskins.htm
“Pork skins and pork rinds are produced from high quality pork skin pellets.”
IANAPork expert, but it seems to me that a pork skin pellet consists of the skin plus the subcutaneous layer of fat. The skin becomes pork skin and the fat becomes pork rind. Look at a pork chop (with the skin on, natch) and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
I’m diabetic, too. I eat pork rinds when the rest of my friends are eating potato chips. That way, I’m not left out - I get to eat a chip snack, too. This is no more than once a week, though, and usually less.
That and the barbeque flavor ones are uber-yummi.
I would certainly hope not. Capital M is mega, not milli. A megagram is a metric ton.
mg = milligram
Mg = ton
Partly Warmer, you’re SO right about not eating pork rinds out of a potato chip type bag. BTW, in CA and other western areas, they’re also sold as “Chicharonnes”. My ex wife got a horrible case of food poisoning from eating a bag of the damn things.
I wouldn’t touch the damn things. Deep fried fatty skin of a pig. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Yeccch!
IANAKFE, but Google is doing it’s best to make up for my inadequacies.
It seems that you’ve stumbled onto Gribbenes (possible sp there). For all your chicken skin roasting needs, see rec.food.recipes.