Three Main Meat Categories:
Three Main Meat Categories:
1. Red Meat: All livestock is considered red meat. This includes beef, pork, goat, and lamb.
2. Poultry: Commonly referred to as white meat, poultry includes chicken and turkey.
3. Seafood: That includes fish, as well as crustaceans, like crab and lobster, and molluscs, like clams, oysters, scallops, and mussels.
Meat is composed of protein, fat, connective tissue, and exudate–its natural “juice.” On average, its muscle mass could contain anywhere from 35 to 60% of the animal’s total body weight.
June 30, 1906
June 30, 1906