White meat refers to fish, shrimp, shellfish, chicken, duck, and plant meat.

White meat is a nutritional term that broadly refers to meats with delicate muscle fibers, lower fat content, and higher levels of unsaturated fatty acids in the fat. White meat can include birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans or bivalves.

It can be found that these meats, in the case of raw, basically white, so the "white meat", although the salmon in the case of raw, also red, cooked shrimp and crabs are red, but can not be counted as red meat, because the color of the cooking can not be used as a criterion for judging the white meat, red meat, like Pork is still red meat even if it turns white after cooking.

In the past, basically red meat is the main, that is, pork is the main, now all the people health, the pursuit of healthy life, so gradually recommended more use of white meat, reduce the intake of red meat, mainly because the white meat can provide a wealth of protein, and the content of fat is relatively low, is not easy to cause the "three highs".

Difference between white meat and red meat:

1, red meat and white meat is the biggest difference is in the color, which is visible to the naked eye is the easiest to distinguish. Then lead to red meat and white meat color is different because red meat contains ferritin and myoglobin, these two elements can make the meat look red, and white meat does not contain these two elements, so it shows white, which is one of the biggest difference between white meat and red meat.

2, white meat and red meat are rich in protein, but in addition to protein, their other nutrients content is quite different. For example, red meat contains a lot of saturated fatty acids for us not much good, while white meat saturated fatty acids relative to red meat in less, most of the unsaturated fatty acids, and unsaturated fatty acids on our body is very beneficial.

3, "red meat" refers to the cooking before the red meat, generally refers to the meat of livestock, common red meat pork, beef, lamb, rabbit, etc., with rich saturated fatty acids, myoglobin. The "white meat" refers to the cooking before the white meat, generally refers to aquatic and seafood, life can be seen in the white meat of chicken, fish, shrimp, etc., these meats have a high content of unsaturated fatty acids.