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Article: Dish of the day: Paupiette of pork with tomato sauce o
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- February 16, 2002
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Can there ever have been a more maligned meat than pork? It's
perceived to be tough and fatty, laden with cholesterol and
guaranteed to give you heart failure if you overindulge - just think
of all those poor unfortunates branded "a bit of a porker".
But in fact this image could hardly be further from the truth. The
average lean cut of pork has a fat content of less than five per cent
- and half of that is unsaturated. (Lean meat in general is a healthy
option - it contains a mere tenth of the fat found in cheddar
cheese.)
Unfortunately many of us avoid buying pork in any form other than
bacon because we simply don't know how to cook it or even what to
serve it with. That means we're ...