Beef Lung (Cooked) - How Many Calories?

Protein in cooked beef lung

A 100 g amount of cooked beef lung provides 20.4 g protein and 120 kcal. A weighed 85 g amount provides 102 kcal and 17.34 g protein. The reference is braised edible lung, cooked in a covered vessel with a small amount of liquid; it does not describe raw offal or flour-coated fried pieces.

Beef lung is not beef liver

Lung and liver are different organs with different nutrient profiles. The lung reference contains 5.4 mg iron, 3.7 g fat and 277 mg cholesterol per 100 g. Pan-fried beef liver contains 7,744 µg RAE of vitamin A per 100 g, whereas the lung value is 12 µg RAE per 100 g.

At the same 50 g cooked weight, lung provides 2.7 mg iron and beef spleen 19.68 mg. The higher spleen figure is not a recommendation for larger or more frequent portions; composition and individual need are separate questions.

Counting a sauté or mixed dish

Use the weight of cooked, edible lung. A dish made with onions, oil or tomato paste contains more than the organ alone. Assigning the whole pan’s oil to 100 g of lung is misleading, as is ignoring the additions entirely; count the share of those ingredients in the portion eaten.

A raw piece does not have a fixed cooked yield. When using the cooked reference, weigh the amount after cooking instead of substituting its raw purchase weight.

Reference used

Values follow USDA SR28 food 13329, beef lung, cooked, braised. The 85 g amount is the source’s 3 oz example, not a standard plate. Its larger piece-and-yield example is not a universal organ weight. Total sugars were not reported and remain unknown.