Pork overtakes chicken as leanest white meat

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Jul 7th 2006 @ 3:29PM

I guess pork isn't really the "other white meat" anymore. Pork is THE white meat.

According to a study done by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), a three ounce piece of pork tenderloin has 2.98 grams of fat whereas a three ounce piece of skinless chicken breast contains 3.03 grams of fat. "How is this possible?" you might be asking. The answer is that farmers have been carefully breeding leaner pigs over the course of the last 25 years.

Bacon is pork, isn't it?

Filed Under: Farming, Business, Trends, Ingredients
Tags: america, pork, poultry

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7-07-2006 @6:14PM Rob said... Too bad the good old fashioned piggy taste disappeared with the fat. Give me Niman Ranch pork any day of the week. It actually tastes like something!
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7-07-2006 @7:55PM champignon said... It's a great shame that in the name of obsessive and badly-focused fat-cutting the taste of pork has all but disappeared. Let us not support those intensively farmed animals that are bred purely for lean weight and nothing else.

-c
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7-09-2006 @1:32PM thegrizzle said... There is still no better cut of meat in my book for long slow braising than a fatty fatty fat fat pork shoulder...mmm
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7-09-2006 @3:09PM Gabriella said... Yes, but a Pork Shoulder is not like a pork roast which is so lean and so flavorless these days that it is just dreadful.

I guess we can order from nimans and get real pork.
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