Posted on 01/16/2005 11:03:31 AM PST by Willie Green
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SMITHFIELD, Va. -- The world's largest pork processing company has some good news for low-carb dieters: Fattier pork is on its way.
Smithfield Foods is test-marketing a new, higher-fat pork that takes the opposite approach of the company's Lean Generation Pork line, developed more than a decade ago to appeal to health-conscious carnivores.
''This is more of pork the way it used to be -- tastier with a little bit of fat on it,'' said James Schloss, Smithfield's vice president of marketing.
Schloss said low-fat products like Snackwell's were very popular in the late-1990s, but consumers have recently opted for more flavorful snacks.
Smithfield has spent the past four years creating a new breed of hog that would provide more flavorful fresh pork. The Preferred Stock fresh pork hit some test supermarkets in Texas and Maine in the past few months.
Smithfield's new offering should play into consumer demand, but people who subscribe to low-carb diets should remember that fat has more calories per gram than carbohydrates, said Cynthia Sass, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
''According to the research, taste rules above everything else -- above health,'' Sass said. ''They don't want healthy foods that don't taste good.''
Sass said healthy adults should consume 10 percent or less of their total calories from saturated fat, such as that found in pork and other meat.
They are going to reproduce the US Congress.
/john
This product already exists; it's called Spam.
I lost 40lbs by going on a low carb regimen. But I sure didn't do it by picking the fattest meats I could find. I still used some common sense.
Taste does rule, but all to often pork and other meats are overloaded with salt solution. I made a pork loin the other day that I didn't add any salt and I thought it was way to salty. I don't think it is going to make a difference how much fat is in their pork.
They're going to clone Michael Moore?
FMCDH(BITS)
pork fat rules baby!
Can't hardly find any meat on bacon as it is and they want to make pork fatter?
This is wonderful. I'm currently in the army, and those bastards make me run everyday (go figure :-) even though I'm in a desert! So, needless to say, I'm not going to be gettng fat anytime soon. Bring on more BACON!!!! I love Bacon, in fact I try to eat it 3 times a day. It should be it's own food group.
SO9
18 years ago I quit. Last summer I went to the Colorado State Fair and saw what market hogs have evolved to. It's amazing just how much muscle they can pack into a hog, I hardly recognized them as market hogs, they looked more like muscle-hog contestants. We used to send the to market at 6 months and 220 to 230 pounds. Now they weigh close to 300 at 6 months. I still love pork!
BTW, anybody tasted reastuant salmon lately? It's to die for, as they say.
MMMMmmmm! I'm not on any diet whatsoever. And I LOVE THIS!!!
If you like fatty pork , buy Jamestown brand sausage. when you cook it all you have left is Crackiln's.
For you people who dont know what cracklin's are way back when I was a kid we killed our own hogs. we used everything. The fat we cut off we cooked and made lard from, we placed the cooked fat in a press and squeezed all the liquid and that was lard. What was left after the squeezing was called cracklin's.
Crackling cornbread!
Apparently, these boobs have never heard of Britain?
Try Farmland loins, no solution added. Of course it is not as tender but has a great texture for chewing.
Finally! I'm so sick of ultra-lean pork. You can't roast it well, and it tastes like shoe leather. Bring back those fat piggies!
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