7 Facts About Beef
We bet you didn’t know all of these… if not, consider sharing with a friend!
- Just 6 grams of beef has all the protein you need all day.
- The word “steak” comes from a derivative of the word “stick” – it used to be “steik” which meant meat on a stick.
- You may know that cows have 4 stomachs, which is prettty cool, but they can also detect smells up to six miles away!
- You know that red juice in meat? It’s actually not blood. Very little blood remains in muscle tissue of an animal. That red liquid is water mixed a protein called myoglobin.
- Beef protein is a complete protein – meaning it has all of the essential amino acids you need to maintain and repair body tissue.
- Cows don’t have top teeth in the front of their mouths. Since they’re herbivores they don’t need to chew things up that much. The top of their mouth is a tough pad of skin called a dental pad. They do have molars in the back of their top jaw to help grind food up.
- On average, a cow has about 40,000 jaw movements a day. Just chew on that for a while…
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