For the consumption of tenderloin food stalls are the most common, although the flavor of the barbecue taste excellent, but the people who eat do not know exactly what to eat is what tenderloin. So, what meat is the tenderloin? What is the difference between tenderloin and lean meat?

Tenderloin (Tenderloin), refers to the strip of tender meat on the inside of the vertebrae of pigs, cattle, sheep and other vertebrates.

Lean meat is generally referred to as protein-rich meat from livestock such as pigs and cows.

Tenderloin is usually divided into large tenderloin and small tenderloin, large tenderloin is the large ribs connected to the lean meat, the outer side of the tendon cover, usually eaten after the bone of the large chops is the tenderloin, suitable for stir-frying with vegetables. The small tenderloin is a muscle on the inside of the vertebrae, less, very tender, suitable for soup.

How to choose the tenderloin

When purchasing the tenderloin, it is required to have a reddish color, transparent meat, tight texture, elasticity, hand pressure can be quickly recovered, and a special pork flavor. The storage method of the loin: family if you need to save the loin, you can put the loin in a plastic box, sprinkle a little shaoxing wine, cover the lid and put it into the refrigerator's freezer, it can be stored for 1-2 days without deterioration. If you need to keep it for a long time, you need to wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the freezer to keep it frozen, and it can be kept for a month without spoiling.

Don't buy thin skin color is too bright red pure lean meat

October 10, Xiangtan City, animal husbandry, the public security department jointly announced: Xiangtan, the largest impact of a lean meat case in the public security and animal husbandry departments of the **** with the efforts to solve. The case investigation process lasted more than a year, the two departments jointly recovered 7 kilograms of lean meat extract. It was reported that more than 100 kilograms had previously flowed into the province of Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Loudi and other places.

"Leptin" scientific name clenbuterol, the drug is neither a veterinary drug, nor feed additives, but adrenal nerve stimulants. Pigs eat in the metabolic process to promote protein synthesis, accelerate the conversion and decomposition of fat, improve the lean rate of pork, so called "leptin". However, the dosage must be more than 10 times of the dosage of human medicine in order to achieve the effect of increasing the lean meat rate. As a result of the dosage, use a long time, slow metabolism, so until the slaughter of the market, "lean meat" in the pig body residues are very large, through the food into the human body, will lead to make the human body chronic poisoning, to the health of the consumer caused by a great potential danger.

Changsha Animal Husbandry Bureau of Veterinary Medicine Administration Xie Rome, director of the Department of advice, consumers to choose to buy pork with some fat (1-2cm) of the meat, skin is not too thin, the color is not too bright red.