Lean ground beef percentages?

Question

Let’s say I buy a lb of ground beef at the store which is advertised as 85% lean, 15% fat.

Then I buy another package advertising 93% lean, 7% fat.

When cooking each beef in a skillet, more fat/grease is obviously present in the 85% lean meat.

However, after cooking both thoroughly, I drain off the excess fat from each. Does this mean the two meats are nutritionally equivalent and that the differences in lean % are actually negligible?

In: Biology

Answer 1

According to this response to a similar question by [J Kenji Lopez Alt](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/s/haZ3x7fqvq), they will be very similar nutritionally. His full response is worth reading because it goes more in depth about the culinary differences and when you would choose each type of ground beef.