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The pork chop is amazing. Luscious white meat, with just the right amount of fat. A chop that cooks up perfectly with a nice brown colour whether it’s braaied, grilled or fried. Maybe it’s the bacon that’s the best.
Maybe it’s the seasoned pork sausages that with one taste takes you back to a time when the family was all gathered around the kitchen table for a good, old-fashioned country breakfast. You can picture the sausage next to the eggs sizzling in the big, black frying pan, the scent of home-baked bread and fresh coffee in the air.
Whichever it is, each pork product from Taste butchery tastes like it could conjure up an old memory or create a new one almost immediately.” cms_template=”cms_heading.php”][vc_wp_text]
High-quality protein is the main nutritional component of pork, making it useful for muscle growth and maintenance.
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- Thiamin: Unlike other types of red meat, such as beef and lamb, pork is particularly rich in thiamin. Thiamin is one of the B-vitamins and plays an essential role in various body functions.
- Selenium: Pork is usually a rich source of selenium. The best sources of this essential mineral are animal-derived foods, such as meat, seafood, eggs, and dairy products.
- Zinc: An important mineral, abundant in pork. It is essential for a healthy brain and immune system.
- Vitamin B12: Only found in foods of animal origin, vitamin B12 is important for blood formation and brain function. Vitamin B12 deficiency may cause anemia and damage to neurons.
- Vitamin B6: A group of several related vitamins, important for the formation of red blood cells.
- Niacin: One of the B-vitamins, also called vitamin B3. It serves a variety of functions in the body and is important for growth and metabolism.
- Phosphorus: Abundant and common in most foods, phosphorus is usually a large component of people’s diets. It is essential for body growth and maintenance.
- Iron: Pork contains less iron than lamb or beef. However, the absorption of meat iron (heme-iron) from the digestive tract is very efficient and pork can be considered an outstanding source of iron.
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Pork is an excellent source of many vitamins and minerals, including thiamin, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, niacin, phosphorus, and iron.
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