Dog meat

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) of food

Calories 1100 kJ (260 kcal)

Carbohydrates 0.1 g

Dietary fiber 0 g

Fat 20.2 g

Protein 19 g

Water 60.1 g

Vitamin Aequiv. 3.6 ?g (0%)

Thiamine (Vitamin B1) 0.12 mg (9%)

Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) 0.18 mg (12%)

Niacin (Vitamin B3) 1.9 mg (13%)

Vitamin C 3 mg (5%)<

Calcium 8 mg (1%)

Iron 2.8 mg (22%)

Phosphorus 168 mg (24%)

Potassium 270 mg (6%)

Sodium 72 mg (3%)

Ash 0.8 g

Referring to U.S. standards for relative percentages Reference Daily Intake (RDI) for adults Source: Yong-Geun Ann (1999)

Micronutrient content

Dog meat is rich in protein and fat, but also contains vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin B2, amino acids, as well as iron, zinc, calcium and other trace elements. Dog meat contains high quality protein, to enhance the body's ability to resist disease, cellular vitality and organ function has a significant role. Consumption of dog meat can enhance physical fitness, improve digestion, promote blood circulation and improve sexual function. The small amount of rare elements contained in dog meat is beneficial to the treatment of ischemic diseases of the heart and brain and the adjustment of high blood pressure. Dog meat can also assist in the treatment of weakness in the elderly.

Eating value

Dog meat is rich in protein and fat, but also contains vitamin A, vitamin B2,

vitamin E, amino acids and iron, zinc, calcium and other mineral elements.

Medicinal value

Dog meat is salty, sour and warm in nature, it has the effect of warming the kidney and strengthening the yang, helping the strength and replenishing the blood. It can tonify the kidneys and strengthen the yang, and strengthen the muscles and bones! Best fall and winter tonic.

Dog meat also has the effect of tonifying the spleen and warming the stomach; warming the kidneys and strengthening the yang; filling the essence. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica - Dog" records: dog taste salty, sour, warm, non-toxic, can be safe five organs, make up for the absolute injury, light and beneficial to the body. It is suitable for nourishing the kidneys, replenishing the stomach and qi, strengthening the yang, warming the waist and knees, and benefiting the qi. It can replenish the five labors and seven injuries, benefit and nourish yang affairs, replenish blood and veins, increase the ability of intestines and stomach to transport and transform and the functions of kidney and bladder, and fill the essence.

Tang "Food Therapy Materia Medica" then said, "Dog meat replenishes the five labors and seven injuries, benefits the yang affairs, replenishes the blood and veins, thickens the intestines and stomach, solidifies the lower jiao, and fills the essence." Song "Ri Hua Zhu Jia Materia Medica" also said that dog meat "tonifying the stomach gas, strengthening the yang road, warming the waist and knees, and benefiting the energy." Pu Ji Fang" also wrote, "(dog meat) sour taste salty warm, non-toxic, suitable for the kidney and the five organs, to make up for the absolute injury to the labor loss, long illness and great deficiency, served light body, benefit the energy." And "Luo's will be about medical mirror" also pointed out that "dog meat,......, warm the spleen and stomach, and waist and kidney are also subject to its shade. Compensate the deficiency of cold, long Yang Qi."

In Chinese medicine, it is believed that what you eat makes up for what you eat, and the heart replenishes blood and gas.