salumi512 wrote:I'm not sure what the wonderment is. Beef is the number one ingredient.
The thing about a Nutrition label it was brought about to give Joe public a fighting chance to eat healthy so that manufactures (bigger than myself and possibly some about my size) could not put miscellaneous items into their manufactured products. My labels have been in effect since 2006 when it became the law up this end.
In the beginning all items for sale wholesale had to go to a government authorized facility to be tested and when you payees your money you got your label plus letter ok’ing the usage. As you say there is beef in the product and all items have to be on the label from the most to the least in descending order.
The problem is that over the years large (and some small) manufactures have found ways to keep cost down, Jamie Oliver in the UK some years ago exposed how it is done. Putting ‘Beef’ on a label as a number one ingredient is in ‘most’ cases (not all) a hood wink to the general public as this ‘will’ cover just about ‘anything’ that is beef.
Reading the protein number will (unless they have found other ways) give you the actual content of ‘meat’
The following is my label for beef sausage which does have a ‘small’ amount of filler (Rusk) which has brought down the protein number slightly
Compare ‘all’ the numbers and you will see the fat content is low and this is for beef that is about 70/30
Beef Sausage
Lean Ground Beef Rusk Spices Salt Lean Boeuf haché Biscotte Épices Sel Keep Frozen/Garder congelé
Nutrition Facts per100g
Valeur Nutritive par100g
Amount %Daily Value
Teneur % Valeur Quotidienne
Calories/Calories 161
Fat/Lipides 5g 8%
Saturated/Saturée 2g 10%
+Trans/Trans 0g 0g
Cholesterol/Cholestérol 53mg
Sodium/Sodium 440mg 18%
Carbohydrate/Glucides 1g 0%
Fiber/Fibres 0g 0%
Sugar/Sucres 0g
Protein/Protéines 21g
Vitamin A/Vitamine A 0%
Vitamin C/ Vitamine C 0%
Calcium/ Calcium 1%
Iron/Fer 8%