A Logical Defense of Beef and a Tasty Beef Recipe to Prove It! - By: rwakefield

Amongst the country's most popular foods is beef, and why not!.

In modern times, we have heard plenty of discussion on the question of whether beef is a nutritious food to be eaten often, or a dangerous 'bad' food to be shunned if you possibly can.

As if that wasn't confusing enough, even amongst dieticians and nutritionalists, there are differing opinions, but further on in this document we will reveal a few handy factual tips on beef, dispel a few fallacies and myths and make sure that you are given the data and information needed to form your own opinion.

Before we give you the beef facts, here is a flavourful recipe which you can prepare for your children or family.

This is an enticing recipe for 'macaroni beef chili'. It is easy to prepare and is a rapid and efficient meal a large group.

Ingredient list:
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Macaroni - uncooked : 1 x c
Low fat Minced Beef : 0.5 pounds
Powdered garlic : a half teaspoon
Cayenne or chili Powder : one teaspoon
Salt : one pinch (to taste)
Freshly ground pepper : one small pinch
Good quality tomato soup : 1 x Tin
Cheddar cheese : 1 x oz. (coarsely grated)

Recipe method:
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Bring a large pan of water to the boil add the macaroni and cook for roughly 7 minutes.
Quuickly fry the meat until browned in another large pan and carefully remove all the fat that has been rendered.
Mix in the garlic, chili powder, salt and pepper and then stir until well mixed.
Turn the heat to low and cook carefully for around five mins.
Add the cooked macaroni and tomato soup, and bring to a rolling boil.
Cook for a an additional few minutes until everything is cooked through.

Before you serve, add the cheese, and cook a little more till it has melted.

Ladle into bowls and table the food.

This is a great beef recipe to prepare in large quantities as excess quantity can be safely stored in the refrigerator and reheated the next day.
You could also leave the cheese out and freeze portions for later. Simply add the cheese just before you finally serve the recipe.

So why eat beef? here are a few definitive nutritional facts for you:

1/. Quality beef is a good source of Key 'b' vitamins, which are believed by nutritionalists to assist in preventing strokes and coronary disease and also help the body to build haematids (red blood cells).

2/. Just a 3 ounce serving of lean beef may give you over 10% of the consumers target daily value of vitamin b12, zinc, iron, niacin, phosphorus and vitamin b6.

3/. The zinc that is found in lean beef is necessary for human development, helps the immune response, has been shown to help remedy cuts and grazes, influences hunger and can improve your ability to enjoy flavours.

4/. There are people who adhere to the theory that one should stay away from beef as it possesses unhealthy levels of fat. Whilst this may have been true a few years ago, beef sold in this day and age is far leaner than it was previously, and due to modern farming methods over half of the fats found in modern quality beef are monounsaturated fats which are widely considered to be not as damaging as other fats.

5/. Many people claim that weight watchers should not buy beef. A real dietician will tell you that this is not the case, the truth is that the 80g serving of quality beef that many medical experts favor as a sensible daily limit, is in actuality merely 10% of the usual 2000 calories daily diet.

6/. If you examine it clearly, beef is nearly as effective as multivitamins as it is a great source of vitamin b12, zinc, iron, niacin and phosphorus.

7/. Taking the uncooked weight,, 100 grams of beef has:

* 198 calories
* zero grams of Vitamin C.
* 25 microgram of Selenium.
* 53mg of Sodium.
* 12.15g of fat.

I trust this article has left you with a better awareness of both the pros and cons of consuming beef, and also offered you a tasty new addition to your recipe collection.

About the Author

Mr Wakefield works as a a copywriter and web developer who offers nutritional information for Recipes 4U,(http://www.recipes-4u.co.uk), which has more than 40,000 recipes with specific recipe categories for Beef Recipes and Vegetarian Recipes and plenty of other categories too!.

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