Each new issue recommendations on nutrition louder shout about the benefit and harm of plant food red meat. With red meat is not always clear.
Delicate grayish-pink pork is considered a red meat.
The blood transports oxygen due to hemoglobin. This oxygen is very necessary for the muscles, so the muscles inside has a "zapasatel" oxygen, which is called myoglobin. He is as red as the hemoglobin in the blood. In a lot of pork myoglobin, so it is considered a red meat. Pigs as well as cows belong to livestock.
With geese and the ducks all the way around. This white meat.
Geese and ducks can fly and they have heavy fat body. To fly with the body, you need powerful pectoral muscles. There's a lot of myoglobin. Therefore breast geese ducks with more red than that of hens with turkeys. But officially they are considered white meat.
Well, then you might have guessed themselves. What color is the meat of legs in chickens with turkeys? Right! They've got dark meat with a lot of myoglobin. Because chickens to turkeys are moved due to the muscles of the legs.
Interesting confusion, right?
