Are you eating "imitation" wagyu? Nutritionists teach you the four major risks of excessive fat-injected meat

People who like to eat beef often say, "Give me beef, nothing else!" Beef is not only a delicacy on the table, but also a representative of animal protein. It is also rich in iron and zinc, which are easily lacking in the human body. Therefore, moderate supplementation is good for health. There are many types of marbled beef, marbled beef and Wagyu beef available in the market, but are the ones we eat "fake" marbled beef, "false" marbled beef or "imitation" Wagyu beef? In addition, what are the risks of eating too much fat-injected meat? Come and listen to the nutritionist’s explanation.

Beef is a delicacy for many meat lovers. It is really important to understand the beef you eat. The steak you eat may contain reconstructed meat, but the beautiful fat marbling on the hot pot slices may be fat-injected meat. Both are processed meat and are not the "prototype" meat, so what you may eat is "fake" marbled beef, "fake" marbling, or "imitation" Wagyu beef. Now let’s understand what is restructured meat and fat-injected meat?

Let’s first take a look at the differences between original meat, restructured meat, and fat-injected meat. You must understand the ingredients to know which one you are eating? Nutritionist Gao Minmin said that the easiest way to distinguish between original meat, reconstituted meat, and fat-injected meat is to look at its characteristics and ingredients:

Original meat

Features: Scraping with a spoon can produce blood.

Ingredients: 100% pure and natural raw meat ingredients.

Restructured meat

Features: Each piece is fairly consistent in size and shape.

Ingredients: Beef shoulder meat, quality improver, whey protein, sodium pyrophosphate, antioxidant, carrageenan, beef powder, bone meal, etc.

Fat-injected meat

Features: The oil is even and unnatural like a spider web, and the grease can be scraped out with a spoon.

Ingredients: beef, beef tallow, glucose, nutrient additive, salt, thickener, yeast extract, whey protein hydrolyzate, agar, quality improver, antioxidant, flavoring, fruit enzyme powder.

As for reconstituted meat, everyone should be quite familiar with it. Now the regulations stipulate that it must be labeled, so it is not difficult to understand.

What is the difference between fat-injected meat and natural raw meat?

What is the difference between fat-injected meat and natural raw meat? Nutritionist Gao Minmin said that artificial marbling meat, as the name suggests, is fat injected into lean meat to improve the taste and appearance of the meat. Beef is the most common meat for fat injection.

Natural raw meat: The ingredients are 100% raw meat, purely natural.

Fat-injected meat: = original meat injected with saturated fat + various food additives (such as thickeners, flavoring agents, antioxidants, quality improvers, etc.).

Uninformed consumers often mistake it for natural marbled fat and may even refuse to eat it fully cooked. Be careful not to eat half-cooked fat-injected meat without knowing it. Excessive intake of fat-injected meat may cause the following four major disease symptoms:

1. Gastrointestinal discomfort.

2. Neurodegeneration.

3. Accelerate functional aging.

4. Increase the burden on the liver and kidneys.

Therefore, people who love to eat meat are strongly reminded to reduce the frequency and amount of fat-injected meat intake as much as possible. The Food and Drug Administration also announced that starting July 1, 2012, regulations require that fat-injected meat, whether commercially available or sold in restaurants, must be labeled and served fully cooked only.

People who cook their own food may be able to distinguish meat based on its appearance and ingredient list, but if you eat out, you may not be able to tell the difference between fat-injected meat and natural raw meat. Therefore, it is recommended to eat meat fully cooked when eating out, or eat more other protein foods as a substitute. For those who cook their own food, they can identify the meat by its fat distribution or choose the meat with food labeling.

Finally, a reminder for people who love to eat meat to try to reduce the intake of fat-injected meat, but still remember to take care of their own health and safety.