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Pork is healthy after all?

KennethT

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KennethT

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Someone forwarded this link to me...

http://www.worldofbuzz.com/fatty-pork-announced-top-10-nutritious-food-world/

Basically it says that a BBC study has found that pork fat is healthy as it contains 60% monounsaturated fat and oleic acid. 

 

I had always heard that pork fat from jamon iberico de bellota was healthy since the pigs eat so many acorns, their fat is high in Omega 3 fatty acids (like salmon) - and I can definitely say from experience that the fat has a low melting point - it melts in your mouth and on your hand...

 

But I wonder if this applies to commodity pork as well...  I haven't read the study yet...

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1 hour ago, KennethT said:

But I wonder if this applies to commodity pork as well... 

 Wait! You’ve seen commodity pork with fat?  

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Here's the underlying study, to save a couple of click-throughs for nutrition geeks:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127128.s002&type=supplementary

 

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3 hours ago, KennethT said:

... and I can definitely say from experience that the fat has a low melting point - it melts in your mouth and on your hand...

Unlike M&M's, which melt in your mouth but NOT on your hand ...

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist.)

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