the benefits of pork

Pork is a food rich in proteins and vitamins. In addition, it provides other nutrients such as iron, phosphorus, potassium, zinc and fatty acids.

The Association of Pig Breeders of Panama (ANAPOR) is celebrating today, March 15, Pork Day for the third year in a row.

This meat contains vitamins from B-complex such as B1, B3 and B6, and folic acid, which is essential for women pregnant. B12, which intervenes in the formation of red blood cells, so “it helps us not to develop anemia”, says nutritionist Sara Saldarriaga.

Today, there are still people who consider this a high-indo food fat and avoid theirs consumption.

Saldarriaga points out that here he goes into the question that exists skinny cutsand these are the ones with less fat like loin, pork shoulder, smooth pig and central notch. They are friendly cuts for all types of people.

But there are fats that can also be included in ua A balanced diet because the body also requires fat.

The difference is in how they are prepared food“If I take them and fry them in oil, I add more fat, but if it is my own fat, it is important that it is not modified or altered, it has its own uses…”.

Fatty acids or fats are necessary for its formation hormones absorb vitamins and many other functions that fat has, but must be with measured consumptionall that excess can bring repercussions depending on the people. We have to get rid of this fear of fats, and especially if they are natural fats, we can include them in our diet feed in a balanced way”.

carefully!

When talking about contraindications consumption of pork, the expert says that a gastrointestinal problemif it is a fat cut and your body is not used to receiving it excessive fat consumptioncould have an effect because it was exceeded at a certain moment, but this is not because of the product, but because of the body of a person who is not used to consuming fat”.

You can also file a an issuebut connected with handling meat, when cooking and preserving food, can be spoiled and unintentionally favored bacterial proliferation and microorganismthen it is consumed and can cause stomach flu.

Pork, like all fresh products, needs to be handled when bought, they have to be taken home soon and cool in the refrigerator or freezeif you decide to refrigerate it, it is because you will consume it in the next 4 to 5 days, more than these days it is prone to the multiplication of bacteria.

In case of freezing, they should do it as soon as they get home. Also, if you thaw it and don’t the kitchen and it freezes again, this kind of freezing and defrosting repeated use of the same piece of pork can cause it to spoil and lose its flavor integrity.

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“Taste of joy, pork for every day” was created in 2020 and aims to encourage Panamanians to adequately consume pork and remove those myths that it is bad or that it affects health. “Let the population know that it is pork food supply adequate and nutritious which we can include in our balanced plate in the family”.