Nina cooks What the cow eats is decisive for the taste of the meat, say experts. Especially the discussion about what’s better meat – grass or grain – runs sometimes high on between the experts. Inspection of Value (a Dutch consumententelevisieprogramma) went looking for answers.
In the supermarket is the choice in meat is almost infinite. You have labels that state that the beef from Ireland or South America, or the grass-fed or graangevoerd. In the new episode of Food Value search the tv makers what’s better: a steak from Ireland where the cows eat grass or a piece of meat from the USA, where the cows are grain fed. And you can taste that too?
Vetadertjes
In America, cows are often grain to eat. Grain is a concentrate and contains a lot of energy, so cows arrive faster and have more fat on their bodies. That fat see back on your plate. The butcher of Amsterdam’s butcher’s shop Hergo calls the marbled meat. What is nicer is a matter of taste, but according to the butcher gives the fat for a tastier piece of meat. “This vetadertjes going to melt and that gives the meat flavour,’ says the butcher in the broadcast.