Beef is a kind of meat that people often eat. It is rich in protein and various amino acids. Eating more beef helps to grow muscles. There are four kinds of beef on the market now: yellow cattle, buffalo, consumer cattle and dairy cows. What's the difference between yellow beef and ordinary beef?

1. What's the difference between yellow beef and ordinary beef?

In the vegetable market, there are many kinds of beef, among which the nutritional value and price of ordinary beef and yellow cattle are different, and the taste of yellow cattle is better and the price is slightly more expensive. Then let me tell you the difference between yellow beef and ordinary beef. Ordinary beef is usually artificially raised beef cattle, which produces more meat and helps to increase sales. Yellow beef is generally brownish red or dark red, the muscle fiber contained in the meat is very fine, and the fat yellow is white; From the perspective of bovine bones, the sternum stalk of cattle is triangular and the intercostal space is relatively large. Beef is easy to cook, tender and delicious.

Second, how to choose fresh beef?

1. We should look at the color of beef first. Fresh beef muscles are dark red with some luster, and the fat is white or cream-colored. Beef looks slightly dry, especially in winter, and it is easy to form a thin air-dried film on its surface. The muscle surface of aged beef is dull, dark in color and yellow-green in fat.

You can press the beef by hand. Fresh beef has great elasticity and fine and dense muscle fibers, which can be recovered immediately after being pressed out of the pit with your fingers; Stale beef will leave obvious marks after being pressed with your fingers, and the depression cannot be recovered.

Fresh beef tastes fresh, while stale beef will have a bad smell.

Third, how to choose beef for home cooking

1. If you want to wrap jiaozi or steamed stuffed bun with beef stuffing, you can choose the upper brain and neck of the cow, where the meat is tender, fat and thin, and there are many fillings.

2. Stewed beef generally uses the chest part. This part of beef has many tendons, fresh and tender meat, fat but not greasy.

As a very common food in life, beef is delicious, tender and nutritious, and is deeply loved by everyone. Different parts of beef have different meat quality and different fat content, so it also has a variety of delicious ways to eat, such as stewed beef with potatoes, steak, beef with sauce, braised beef, raw beef shreds and so on. They are all delicious, and you can make them yourself.