Beef jerky is cooked.
Air-dried beef air-dried and then baked, so as to maintain the chewiness of beef, but also easy to store for a long time without spoilage. The first good flavor cooked, and then air-dried. It is true that the previous is not cooked before air-drying, the previous is raw when air-drying. Because there were no refrigerators or other cold storage places, people cut up the meat and dried it to store it. So air-dried beef is ready to eat.
Beef jerky buying tips
1, try to choose the drier beef jerky, because dry beef jerky is not easy to breed bacteria caused by deterioration, the humidity of the beef jerky, easy to mold.
2, beef jerky choose the color closest to the color of beef, other colors are too bright or too dark, may have added chemical ingredients.
3, choose vacuum-packed beef jerky rather than bulk jerky.
The above content reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Beef Jerky