Do you know what's in the meat?

1. You're what your food ate

2. Is that what's in meat processing at all?

3. Conservatives and other ingredients

4. Meat mechanically separated (MOM)

5. How do you become a conscious consumer?

1. You're what your food ate

The conditions in which animals live and what they are fed can have a direct impact on the composition of the meat. Animals in cages that have never seen the sun often become ill, so they are often given antibiotics and vaccines containing harmful substances deposited in their fat tissue. First, it is worth paying attention to animal breeding. Studies show that meat from animals fed grass in combination with meat from grain-fed animals has slightly smaller amounts of myrrh and palm oil as saturated fat.

2. Is that what's in meat processing at all?

In the process of traditional meat processing, during the burning of wood, multi-layered aromatic hydrocarbons (MCA) are produced, which, together with the smoke from the coal fires, get into the meat. These compounds exhibit a clear chronic toxicity. Manufacturers are doing everything they can to make meat products such as hams, stews, sausages or pastes as cheap as possible, i.e. with reduced meat content, which is why they fill them with other substances. Among the most toxic are benzoic pepper. So limit the consumption of smoked and grilled meat to a minimum.

3. Conservatives and other ingredients

In the store, attention should be paid to the composition and appearance of ham. Meat contains preservatives that protect against microorganisms. Potentially carcinogenic substances may include sodium nitrate (III) (E250), which in combination with amino acid breakdown products produces nitrozoamines that exhibit carcinogenic properties.

4. Meat mechanically separated (MOM)

The product is obtained by removing meat from bone-tight tissues after they have been separated from cartilage or poultry meat by mechanical means, which leads to a modification of the structure of muscle fibres. It produces a mass containing meat, fat, carcasses, bones, skin and connective tissue, which is then crushed. It provides a high content of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol and low protein. MOM is the main ingredient not only in fast food restaurants, but also in sausages, pastries, sausages and meat preserves. The mass of meat and bone is extracted by special meat cylinders on which the mass of raw meat is less than that of meat.

5. How do you become a conscious consumer?

These rules protect against bad choices: avoiding meat from wholesale farming; buying meat only from verified sellers or organic farms. Avoiding meat products (if you like them, you have to check the composition: meat content, number of preservatives, processing process); limiting the consumption of smoked products; ?? baking at home in pastes and hams; ‡ Avoiding mechanically separated meat products and products with a meat content of less than 80%.