Question: Which is the Better Choice: Pecan Pie or Pumpkin Pie?
Pie tends to be a high-calorie, high-fat food, unless you make light or low-fat pies using phyllo dough or ditch the crust altogether. But if you’re not the cook at Thanksgiving, which should you choose: pecan pie or pumpkin pie?
Answer: Neither pecan pie nor pumpkin pie are low-calorie, low-fat desserts, but your best bet would be the pumpkin pie. While most of the fat in pecan pie is unsaturated—the pecan part, at any rate—one slice of homemade pecan pie has around 503 calories, according to calorie-count.com, with 244 of them from fat. A slice of pumpkin pie is worth 316 calories with 130 of them from fat. Neither is ideal in terms of eating low fat, but pumpkin pie is lower in calories, and an excellent source of vitamin A, as well as a good source of calcium and iron.
