What makes turkey taste like...pork?

“Tastes like chicken!” It’s a saying we use a lot when referring to exotic meats, and you might think, being a bird, that it might apply to turkey as well. But according to this study, that’s dead wrong. In fact, the meat that most closely resembles turkey in flavor is actually pork! To determine this, researchers concocted ground meat patties composed of beef, chicken, pork, lamb or turkey, and had a panel of tasters rate how strongly each meat tasted using 18 different attributes. They then performed principle component analysis (a statistical method that can tell you in which ways two things differ the most) to determine which flavors differentiated the meats from each other. The result of this meaty analysis? “Beef and lamb were most closely related to flavor attributes such as roast beef, grassy, gamey, barny, livery, metallic, and bitter. Pork and turkey were inversely related to these, ...