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                         what is beef ?

Beef: thick beast is a pure name for meat, especially skeletal muscles. Humans are already eating meat meat from prehistoric times. Beef is a good source of ZIP: zinc, iron and high quality protein and essential nutrients.

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Beef meat is a type of red meat. Red meat contain red colour. Red color at meat is due to more myoglobin protein

Beef is meat from full-grown cattle about 2 years old . If cattle is a less then of 2 years old is a veal.

               BEEF

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              VEAL

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                COMPOSITION OF BEEF MEAT

• water                      70-75%
• protein                  20-22%
• fat                           up to 20%
• C.H.O                       <1%
• mineral                    0.5%
• vitamin                    0.5%

                  CUTS OF BEEF MEAT

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             Chuck

Chuck meat is the shoulder of the cattle.

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               Rib

Rib meat is a  from the rib  of a cattle, with rib bone attached.

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                Sirloin

Sirloin meat is a cut off behind the cattle.

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            Short-loin

Short-loin meat that comes from the back of the cattle.

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            Round

Round meat is  the rear leg of the cattle.

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            Flank

Flank meat is the ends of the sixth through the twelfth ribs are contained within the plate primal cut. 

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