Pork is a natural vitamin B complex
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You might get the idea that you should replace pork with beef due to the fat composition. This conclusion is faulty and I am going to show how.
- A pound of pork has about 3.2mg of Thiamine. A pound of beef only about 0.2mg. This seems like a much much better source for Thiamine than any supplement, due to much higher absorption rate.
- Thiamine is absolutely essential for a healthy metabolism and by substituting pork for beef you are much more likely to experience low energy from low Thiamine. Thiamine is water soluble so short term deficiencies are quite likely if you don't regularly eat a good source of it.
- In addition, Pork also contains high amounts of magnesium, potassium, riboflavin (Vitamin B2), niacin (Vitamin B3) and pyridoxine (Vitamin B6). E.g. everything the body needs to make optimal use of the Thiamine.
- Peat said he likes pork because it is easy to digest.
- There are a lot of low fat cuts of pork, so you can enjoy the benefits of this multivitamin without eating a bunch of MUFAs.
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@pittybitty I find pork delicious and include it at least once weekly in my barbecues. I'm not gonna stop eating pork even though I do supplement B vitamins.
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I eat less pork because pig feed is easier to tamper with. There was a case in the US where they cut pig feed with recycled garbage.
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If you're in the southern United States, feral hogs would probably make a good meat for people worried about the PUFA content of regular pork
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I like pork! obvious downsides to it in the sense that'll eat anything and it does not have multiple ruminant stomachs. So I wouldn't eat US pork at all, since you guys feed them plastic and shit.
I have some chorizo, fried in coconut oil, but eating cured (old) meats is apparently much worse than fresh. So the best form of pork would be like a cutlet fried in tallow, butter or coconut oil. I agree it makes a lot more sense metabolically than beef, especially from older animals. Lamb I think is better than both most of the time.
