Eat with understanding
Meat, eggs, dairy & seafood
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Red Meat
- LambMost of the iron in lamb is heme iron.Animal Foods · Red Meat5 stations
- PorkPork needs to be cooked through, but not cooked to leather.Animal Foods · Red Meat8 stations
- BeefBeef's signature is heme iron: it is well absorbed, which makes beef an efficient iron source for people who are short of iron.Animal Foods · Red Meat7 stations
- Organ Meat · LiverThe liver is where an animal stores its vitamin A, so a small serving of liver can deliver several days' worth, and eating it often or in large…Animal Foods · Red Meat8 stations
- Collagen & Bone BrothCollagen you eat is broken down into amino acids and small peptides like any other protein, and it is not delivered intact to your face or your knees.Animal Foods · Red Meat6 stations
Poultry & Eggs
- ChickenRaw chicken often carries Salmonella and Campylobacter, and cooking the thickest part to 74°C at the center kills them — that is the most important…Animal Foods · Poultry & Eggs7 stations
- EggsThe white is almost all water and protein; the yolk is the micronutrient store, holding nearly all the fat-soluble vitamins, choline and lutein.…Animal Foods · Poultry & Eggs6 stations
- Century EggA century egg is a duck egg that strong alkali has reworked over several weeks: the alkali sets the white into a translucent gel and turns the yolk…Animal Foods · Poultry & Eggs8 stations
Dairy
- MilkBloating or diarrhea after drinking milk usually means the small intestine is short of the enzyme that splits lactose (lactase).Animal Foods · Dairy8 stations
- YogurtTwo lactic acid bacteria turn lactose into lactic acid; as the milk sours, casein links into a mesh that holds water and fat, and that is yogurt's…Animal Foods · Dairy8 stations
- CheeseCheese is what is left when milk's protein and fat are kept and the water and most of the lactose drain off with the whey.Animal Foods · Dairy8 stations
Fish
- SalmonSalmon's most valuable fat comes down to a few bends in its molecules: they keep cell membranes soft in cold water, and they make the fat easily…Animal Foods · Fish7 stations
- TunaTuna sits high on the ocean food chain: every smaller fish it eats hands over the mercury that fish stored in its lifetime, so within the tuna family,…Animal Foods · Fish7 stations
- SardinesA can of sardines with the bones in gives you calcium and the vitamin D that helps calcium get into the blood in the same bite, and because sardines…Animal Foods · Fish7 stations
- White Fish · Cod & SeabassWhite fish such as cod and sea bass are low in mercury because, compared with big predators, most of them are smaller and eat lower on the food chain,…Animal Foods · Fish8 stations
Shellfish
- ShrimpShrimp is not low in cholesterol, but for most people, the cholesterol you eat raises LDL in the blood (low-density lipoprotein, the "bad cholesterol"…Animal Foods · Shellfish6 stations
- OystersOysters eat by pumping seawater through their own bodies.Animal Foods · Shellfish8 stations
- CrabOnce a crab dies, bacteria start multiplying in the meat and can produce harmful small molecules that survive heat, so no amount of steaming removes…Animal Foods · Shellfish8 stations