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Recipes & Meat Cuts Guide / Meat Mentor / Healthy Meat

Meat is particularly high in haem iron which, unlike non haem iron found in cereals and vegetables, is easily absorbed.  Iron is good for our blood and helps carry more oxygen around our bodies.  Sufficient iron intake is particularly necessary in young people and women of child bearing age.

Meat is very rich in protein which is essential for energy and helps the body’s growth and repair.  As a guide, one 90g portion provides half a persons RDA for protein.

Meat is also rich in zinc, vitamins B12, B6 and D.  Zinc is needed for muscle recovery whilst vitamin B12 helps maintain healthy blood cells and nerve cells.  Vitamin B6 is one of those that does a lot and is pretty much essential for your good health.  It is essential for your metabolism and immune system.  Vitamin D is needed to maintain healthy bones and to stop them from going brittle.  Beef in particular is rich is B12, B6 and D whilst pork is rich in B1 (thiamine)  and lamb is rich in vitamin B6.

Like everything though you can have too much of a good things and it is vital that you maintain a balanced diet and get your proper intake of FRESH fruit and veg.

 

Many of the diagrams in the Macbeth's Meat Mentor have been provided by, or adapted from diagrams provided by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS).  Quality Meat Scotland is the body which promotes Scottish red meat throughout the UK and also set the quality and welfare standards to which we adhere.

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