What is the most unhealthy meat?

Chef's answer
In general, red meats (beef, pork and lamb) have more saturated (bad) fat than chicken, fish and vegetable proteins such as beans. Saturated and trans fats can raise your blood cholesterol and make heart disease worse. The unsaturated fats in fish, such as salmon, actually have health benefits.
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Here are the top 5 lean meats for weight loss and muscle gains.
  • Chicken breasts. These are the easiest to get hold of and most familiar. ...
  • Rabbit. This used to be a common sight on British dinner tables but is less popular today despite being one of the leanest meats around. ...
  • Venison. ...
  • Pheasant. ...
  • Ostrich.
Processed meats are meats that have been preserved by smoking or salting, curing or adding chemical preservatives. They include deli meats, bacon and hot dogs. Eating processed meats increases your cancer risk. Unfortunately, when these processed meats are preserved, cancer-causing substances form..
Cured meats are also susceptible to Clostridium botulinum contamination. Botulism, the disease caused by infection with C. botulinum toxins, was originally named "sausage poisoning," or "Wurstvergiftung," when discovered in Germany, because the bacteria grow in oxygen-deprived environments such as sausage casings.
4. Processed Lunch Meat. Lunch meats, including deli cold cuts, bologna, and ham, make the unhealthy list because they contain lots of sodium and sometimes fat as well as some preservatives like nitrites..
Food products categorized as processed meat include:
  • Sausages, hot dogs, salami.
  • Ham, cured bacon.
  • Salted and cured meat, corned beef.
  • Smoked meat.
  • Dried meat, beef jerky.
  • Canned meat.
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Many meat processors believe that all deli meat should be labeled "cured," no matter which curing process is used, according to NAMI. " 'Uncured' and 'natural nitrates/nitrites' makes people think these meats are healthier, but they aren't," says CR's Vallaeys.
Beef is in most cases safe to eat raw, as long as you sear the surface of the meat. This is because, on whole cuts of beef, bacterial contamination (such as E. coli) is usually only present on the outside.
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