When buying meat, should you choose a male pig or a female pig?
Pork is one of the foods that appears most often on the dining table of Vietnamese families because it is affordable, suitable for most people’s tastes and can be processed into a wide variety of dishes according to both styles. Europe and Asia.
When buying meat, whether to choose a male pig or a female pig is something that makes many people confused when going to the market. Does the quality differ between these two types of meat?
Should I buy male or female pigs?
According to Sohu , male and female pig meat have differences in nutrition and taste.
The nutritional composition and ratio of each substance in male and female pork are very similar, but male pork is considered better. The reason is that female pork contains immunoglobulins, which if consumed for a long time can be harmful to human health.
In particular, before and after female pigs give birth, the content of this substance is especially high. Although not dangerous for the body, it still has negative effects.
When buying meat, should you choose a male pig or a female pig? (Photo: Peacebreeze)
Regarding taste, it can be said with certainty that the taste of male pigs is better than that of female pigs because female pigs do not exercise much. In particular, with female pigs that give birth to many litters, the meat is not firm but very mushy, no matter how you cook it, it is still not delicious.
Male pigs work regularly so their meat is firmer. You can prepare many dishes from male pork, all of which are delicious, sweet, and attractive.
How to distinguish between clean pork and meat with increased weight
You can differentiate based on the signs below:
Observe the skin and fat: In general, the skin of “domestic pork” will be whiter and glossier than industrial pork. Traditionally raised pork usually has a layer of fat 2 – 3 cm thick, with a lot of fat and a little lean. The layer of fat and lean meat stick together, the skin is thick. Industrial pork has very little fat and thin skin.
Feel the stickiness: When you use your fingers to press on the meat, you will feel that traditionally raised pork is more sticky to your hands and the meat fibers are firmer. Meanwhile, meat that gains weight often has low stickiness, and the meat fibers are also more friable and softer.
Male and female pork differ in nutrients and taste. (Photo: Meatworks)
To recognize the above difference, consumers must have a keen sense, this ability will gradually increase with experience. The more you “go to the market”, the better you will be at distinguishing between clean pork and meat with increased weight
Once you have bought it, you can also realize that you bought the wrong one during the processing process, because the pork that gains weight will secrete a lot of juice when roasting or stir-frying, the meat will be friable, and the aroma will not be clear. Meanwhile, clean meat has very little water, when cooked, it emits an extremely attractive aroma, makes the meat chewy and delicious.
Signs of sick pork
Pigs infected with flukes: The simplest way to detect pork with flukes is to cut along the grain and observe the meat surface. If you see white spots the size of a pinhead or the meat fibers are stringy or large oval, that is a sign. the pig is infected with tapeworms. These spots often appear in areas of meat with fatty tendons such as shoulder meat, muscle meat, prime meat…
Pigs with hepatitis: Meat is yellow.
Pigs infected with African swine fever: Pigs have hemorrhagic spots on the skin and ears. The ears are bluish purple. All internal organs were bleeding. The meat has strange colors such as brown, dark red, pale purple, gray, or light green.
