What do we know about the health benefits and harms of nutria meat?

South America is considered the homeland of the water rat; in the Soviet Union, the introduced animal settled in the southern swamps. The benefits and harms of nutria meat have long been studied by nutritionists. Verdict - dietary meat, good for everyone, has no harmful indications. However, in Russia, a healthy product is treated with disgust. Confused by the very opportunity to taste rat meat, and the fear of contracting the disease of animals.

Cellular content of nutria

Since 1961, they found a way, developed an algorithm keeping animals in cages... By this time it turned out that nutria are very clean and fastidious animals. They are not omnivorous. They will refuse food, will not eat sour food or dirty grass. However, animals released into the water element can become infected with lamblia. With insufficient heat treatment of meat, a person can become infected. Meat purchased from the market or farms is not fully analyzed. Therefore, instead of good, nutria meat will be harmful if consumed without proper control.

Animals kept in cages cannot get giardiasis, and they receive timely vaccination from other diseases. They are not hormone-fed for rapid growth. The main value of the animal is the skin, and it will be of high quality only with natural feeding. Therefore, nutria meat is really pure from biostimulants, antibiotics and is much healthier than broilers.

Recent nutritional researchers have shown that nutria meat is certainly beneficial for humans. At the same time, the child's body assimilates it more difficult. Since children's meals are usually steamed, there is a risk of contracting giardiasis.

Useful properties of nutria meat

To taste, nutria meat resembles rabbit and beef. In appearance, the peeled carcass looks like a rabbit, only the meat is dark, the rabbit has light, resembles chicken. Nutritionists have identified the special benefits of nutritious meat, and harm can only be with individual intolerance to the product:

1. The rich set of easily digestible vitamins and amino acids in meat makes it dietary and is recommended for weakened people and children as the most valuable source of protein. High-calorie meat - 190 kcal / 100 g of meat. As part of a 100 g serving, 20 g of protein, 4 g of fat, but also useful. Calcium is good for bones, and phosphorus is good for vision. The red color of meat is associated with a large amount of biological iron.
2. The product is sold in the form of carcasses and semi-finished products, and cooking at home does not require much time.
3. The benefit of nutria meat is that it is easily digested, does not create a feeling of heaviness in the stomach. Nutria dishes are assimilated in case of gastrointestinal diseases and have a healing effect. Only nutria fat contains a curative set of unsaturated linolenic organic acids from all traditionally used types of meat.
4. Regular consumption of nutria meat in any form strengthens the body. It is especially useful for people with diseases of the heart and vascular system to use the product - cholesterol deposits are dissolved, muscles are strengthened and the state of the nervous system is normalized.
5. The increased content of healthy protein in a delicate, fine-fiber product makes cooked dishes healthy and delicious for everyone. The only exceptions are people with an individual intolerance to this type of meat.

The use of nutria meat for food is useful, this is an undoubted fact.The possibility of infection must be remembered, but beef can also contain bovine tapeworm cysts in the meat, and the pig has its own parasites. Even fish caught from clean rivers carry their own worms. Therefore, it is necessary to subject any meat to normal heat treatment, and not to taste raw minced meat.

There is one more aspect. The specific smell of meat. Some people hate it. However, the nutria contained in the cells has a faint musky aroma. Hunters still harvest nutria in the wild. Therefore, it is important to buy meat only from caged animals with a veterinary brand.

Is it possible to include nutria meat in the children's menu

Diet nutria meat is tender, with fine fibers. It is easy to prepare and tasty in any form and does not cause allergies. A 10 kg carcass is the usual standard weight for an adult animal. Nutria meat will benefit or harm children, nutritionists understand.

When asked whether it is possible to start a baby's meat complementary food with nutria meat, experts warn that any protein of animal origin is included in the baby's menu after he has already received vegetables, fruits and cereals for 3 months. That is, the stomach already accepts and digests plant foods. After that, nutria meat can be included in the menu. In this case, the meat should be finely ground to facilitate digestion.

In the domestic open spaces, the first nutria meat complementary food has long been carried out in the Kuban. The only addition is that mothers choose nutria for their children carefully, in advance with the owner of the farm.

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