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Article: GROUND BEEF NUTRIENT PROFILES NOW MADE TO ORDER
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 6, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following press release:
A broiled hamburger patty that's 80 percent lean and 20 percent fat has 20 grams of protein in it--but how much protein would the same-sized patty have if it were 94 percent lean and only 6 percent fat? Solving this puzzle would have been a problem in the past, but not today.
A new computer program, the Ground Beef Calculator, is now available online free of charge at the Agricultural Research Service's Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) web site. ARS is the chief scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Ground beef is the most commonly consumed beef product in the ...