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Article: Figuring the fat in ground beef is guesswork
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 19, 1990
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Although ground beef is consumed by more Americans than any
other meat, about the only thing a consumer can be sure of is the fat
and lean content of regular ground beef.
Buy lean, extra-lean or super-lean ground beef and the
percentage of lean meat (and, therefore, fat content) will vary from
store to store.
Sometimes, percentages won't even be marked, leaving the
customer to guess how much fat or lean meat is contained in packages
labeled simply, "ground round" or "ground chuck."
Leroy Corbin, director of the Bureau of Foods and Chemistry for
Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, explained, "Ground beef may
not contain more than 30 percent fat.
"There are no standards for ...