How Diet Affects Fatty Acids Found In Beef

With modern day consumers’ desire to understand how their meat was raised, attention has turned to grass feeding beef in order to increase the health benefits associated with beef.

Grass-fed beef has been popularized among consumers because of the increased amount of unsaturated omega 3 fatty acids deposited within these animals’ muscle and fat tissues.

These omega 3 fatty acids have been thought to have predominant impacts on human health and disease prevention. Thus the incorporation of omega 3s in beef presents a unique opportunity for producers to market a ‘healthier’ product. However the level of omega 3 fatty acids in grass fed has been found extremely variable when comparing the research studies that have been conducted on this topic.

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