Fat Is Back – Beef Producer

Earlier this year we had a number of posts about health topics and the importance of animal fats as part of a healthy diet.  Feel free to browse back to our January – February – March – April & May blog posts.  Fat Is…

Animal Fat Hits Mainstream

OK, one more item on animal fat.  Just had to share this article posted recently on The Wall Street Journal.  Now that the information is hitting the mainstream media, I urge you to check our earlier post on Traditional Food and continue your own…

Fat is Essential to our health

Have you ever heard the term “essential fatty acids”?  These are fats that we must consume in our diet to survive, we cannot manufacture these essential fats ourselves.  Let’s take a brief look at two fatty acids that you have probably heard about in the…

Conjugated Linoleic Acid – Power Fat

Most of us probably agree that fat contributes to the taste of beef.  We can also appreciate that beef raised by grazing pasture for their entire lives will taste different from beef fattened in a dirt feed lot.  But shouldn’t we avoid animal fat…

What is the relationship between flavor and fat?

Much of the following information comes from Mark Schatzker, author of the book “Steak – One Man’s Search for the World’s Tastiest Piece of Beef“.  Using information from Mark we will try to answer the question, “What is the relationship between flavor and fat”? Previously we…