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Fat in beef

Beef is a  popular meat in may of our diets.  The world just would not be the same without the ability to enjoy a nice juicy steak or to fry up a hamburger.   If you do not have the time to engage in either of these fun activities, restaurants can help you satisfy this desire, but certain cuts of beef contain more fats than others.

If you have not been living in a cave for the past ten years or so, you probably now that too much fat is bad for you while a certain amount of fat is good.  You also know that trans fatty acids and saturated fats are bad for your health.  The type of fat contained in beef whether a juicy steak bought at a Bonanza or a simple hamburger you cook on the frying pan of your stove is saturate fat, a type of fat that we all need to cut back on.

This does not mean that you need to give up hamburgers or steak entirely, but you should be aware of the fat content of your food.   Some fat will be cooked away while frying a hamburger and you can cut off the visible lumps of excess fat on a steak.    For hamburger, selecting leaner meat is easy.   Most grocery stores already do this for you.    Expect to pay a little extra for the leaner meats, but the taste difference is not worth worrying about and you get more of the actual healthy parts of the beef, including the vitamins and minerals.   The ground beef types in decreasing fat content are ground beef, ground chuck and ground round. 

When it comes to selecting cuts of beef either for a steak or a roast, it is more difficult and you must determine what part of the animal it came from and whether it is likely to be a prime source of stored fat.   Asking a butcher or clerk of the meat department in a grocery store can aid this process, but you can also do a little research online to figure out where a particular cut of beef or steak is taking off of the cow and what the average fat content of a cut from that area of the cow is.

The easiest way not to get too much fat from beef is to cut down on your beef intake and choose healthier options instead.   This does not have to be what is derisively called rabbit food by meat lovers.  It can be chicken, turkey, or even another red meat, although you should keep in mind that you do not need as much meat in your diet as you do foods from other food groups.  Now that we know to cut back on beef to avoid the fat in it, we do not need to fear firing up the grill every now and then for a barbecue.   Just be sure to switch the soda and potato chips for other foods that are better for you.