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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…
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…
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…
In a previous post (A cow named grass-fed) it was noted that animals raised with a significant part of their diet as grass will have a taste quite different from corn-fed (conventional) beef. Why is this? Doesn’t USDA Prime labeled beef mean “taste great”? One would think that…
Recently I came across an article on the Omaha World-Herald website that was part of their “Locally Grown” series on food trends. This 2012 article “Beef: Grass-fed vs. corn-fed” is an interesting read about two locally raised beef. I share it here for those of you…