Beef tendon, is the ligament on the tendon or bone of cattle, from the point of view of food, beef tendon mostly refers to cattle hoof tendon.

Beef tendon is rich in proteoglycan and collagen, rich in protein and amino acid nutrition, is a delicious and healthy ingredients for the family table. Cow's trotters have always been a feast, eating a long history, it is tender and unctuous texture, texture like sea cucumber. Good beef tendon taste smooth and crispy, flavorful and delicious.

Bull's hoof is the front and back of the hoof surface and deep flexor tendons and the surrounding fibrous tissue, stripes, white, is a good cooking raw materials, with which the cooking dishes have a distinctive flavor, suitable for marinade, mixing, and other culinary techniques.

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Nutritional Value of Beef Trotters

1. Proteoglycan and collagen, fat content is also lower than fat, and does not contain cholesterol, the most important as a structural component of the distribution of cartilage, connective tissue, cornea and other matrix, followed by synovial fluid for the joints, the eye's vitreous humor, and other mucus, lubricating effect. In the matrix, proteoglycans and collagen are linked in a specific way to give the matrix a special structure.

The matrix contains a large amount of hyaluronic acid, which can be combined with hyaluronic acid receptors on the cell surface, affecting cell-to-cell adhesion, cell migration, proliferation and differentiation, and other cell biological behaviors. Can enhance the physiological metabolism of cells, make the skin more elastic and toughness, delay the aging of the skin, for anti-wrinkle skin is more effective.

2, with the effect of strong muscles and bones, on the waist and knees, weak body has a very good therapeutic effect, to help adolescent growth and development and slow down the pace of osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly women.

3, modern molecular biology research cow hoof tendon containing very rich matrix hard protein (ECM Collagen), extracellular matrix hard protein is a group of biological macromolecules with special structure and function. It consists of collagen, elastin, proteoglycan and glycoprotein, and ECM forms basement membrane (BM) under epithelial cells and endothelial cells. It is abundant in connective tissues such as animal tendons.

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