What is the difference between tenderloin and lean pork?

Tenderloin and lean meat are both common meats in daily life, but there is a big difference between tenderloin and lean meat. Tenderloin is generally the meat on the inside of the spine of pigs, cows, or sheep. Tenderloin meat is tender and melts in the mouth, making it very suitable for stir-frying. Lean meat generally refers to pork, which is rich in nutrients and easy for the human body to absorb.

The difference between tenderloin and lean meat

Tenderloin

Tenderloin refers to the tender strips of meat on the inside of the spine of vertebrates such as pigs, cattle, and sheep. The tenderloin is usually divided into large tenderloin and small tenderloin. The large tenderloin is the lean meat connected to the large ribs and is covered with tendons on the outside. The tenderloin is usually obtained by removing the bones from the large ribs, which is suitable for stir-frying. The tenderloin is a muscle on the inside of the spine. It is relatively small and tender, making it suitable for making soup.

effect

1. Nourish the kidney and blood, nourish yin and moisten dryness

2. It is mainly used to treat damage to body fluid caused by fever, emaciation due to thirst, kidney deficiency and physical weakness, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonifying deficiency, nourishing yin, moistening dryness, nourishing liver yin, moisturizing the skin, promoting urination and stopping thirst.

How to choose tenderloin:

When buying tenderloin, you should look for one that has a rosy color, transparent meat, a tight texture, and is elastic. It should be able to recover quickly after being pressed by hand, and have a special pork flavor. How to store pork tenderloin: If your family needs to preserve pork tenderloin, you can put it in a fresh-keeping box, sprinkle a little Shaoxing wine on it, cover it, and put it in the refrigerator. It can be stored for 1-2 days without deterioration. If you need to store it for a long time, you need to wrap the tenderloin with plastic wrap and store it in the freezer of the refrigerator. It can generally be stored for a month without deterioration.

Lean meat

Generally speaking, lean meat refers to the protein-rich meat from livestock such as pigs. Various lean meats contain similar nutrients and are easier to digest than fatty meats. Although lean meat tastes delicious, it is not advisable to eat too much.

Nutritional Value

Various lean meats contain similar nutrients and are easier to digest than fatty meats. It contains about 20% protein, 1-15% fat, 1% inorganic salt, and the rest is water. Generally speaking, pork, beef and mutton contain higher levels of saturated fat, while poultry, chicken and rabbit meat contain lower levels of saturated fat. It is also rich in inorganic salts, especially iron (red lean meat), phosphorus, potassium, sodium, etc., but less calcium. Lean meat is also a good source of vitamins B1, B2, B12, and PP. The content of vitamin B1 in lean pork is quite high. However, it contains very little vitamin A and almost no vitamin C.

There is a saying among the people that "meat is good for three days, soup is good for seventeen", which means that the nutritional value of broth is higher than that of the meat in the soup. This view needs to be corrected. The broth contains some water-soluble substances in lean meat, such as inorganic salts and water-soluble vitamins; there are also a small amount of water-soluble proteins and hydrolysis products, such as peptides and some amino acids; there are also some nitrogen-containing extracts, such as creatinine, creatine, carnosine and purine. These amino acids and nitrogen-containing substances can make the soup taste delicious. The more they dissolve, the stronger the soup tastes. They can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice in the human body and increase appetite. However, most of the nutrients contained in lean meat still remain in the meat, and the nutritional value of meat is definitely higher than that of soup. Therefore, the elderly and patients should not be allowed to eat only the broth and discard the meat in the broth.