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What are your thoughts on Iberico Ham? I’ve read the pigs are acorn fed and well exercised, meaning, they have freedom to roam about as much as they want. I’m curious of the acorn diet saturates the meat with PUFA. Jamón ibérico is said to be the best of the Iberico hams.
That sounds like a decent life for the animal.
You wouldn’t eat a lot of that kind of ham in one sitting, would you? Maybe one or two ounces? I would not sweat it if you enjoy it.
I had this a few months ago and it was really good, very greasy
im pretty sure iberico pork fat is high MUFA and has lots of vit E from the acorns. Natural diet almost like a wild boar. Very natural food
There seems to be a lot more to this ham subject than one would think. Firstly there are different varieties of it and what the makers are feeding the pigs verses what the pigs are suppose to be fed differs. It looks like this study is suggesting that testing the fatty acid profile of the ham is a proposed way to authenticate the ham…
“The quality and sensory characteristics of Iberian ham are closely related to the pig feeding regime. These are mainly due to the inclusion or not of acorns into the diet, which significantly increases the content of monounsaturated fatty acids in this food product. In this work, the fatty acid profile from subcutaneous fat samples was evaluated and modeled with various chemometric approaches as a potential tool for authentication of Iberian ham from three categories according to the rearing system: “Jamón de Bellota”, “Jamón de Cebo de Campo”, and “Jamón de Cebo”. The application of artificial neural networks provided satisfactory classification and prediction rates, with oleic acid being the most important variable driving this differentiation.“
“To sum up, it can be concluded that the fatty acid profile of subcutaneous fat is strongly influenced by the feeding regime, with oleic acid being the most important variable driving this differentiation. This therefore represents a first step towards the development of a suitable tool for Iberian ham authentication. In this work, we demonstrated the need of applying advanced chemometric tools to efficiently determine the pig rearing system. The combination of classical multivariate statistical models and artificial neural network provided good performance for pattern recognition and classification. These results could be a starting point for the implementation of quality control assays in the food industry for fraud detection and authentication of Iberian hams.”
This got me curious and I looked it up. I have tried it once before as it is super expensive over here. $180 a pound. My husband and I once tried 0.25 pound – very very thin slices. It was tasty and not at all fatty. But I do not want to each pork along with being costly, we have not got any since. This was like 10 years ago. BUT, I went to look up the fat composition of acorns and it is mostly monounsaturated. The image below is for 100 grams:
Thats useful to know. Seems like it’s not so bad at all then.
I wonder why so many people are biased against pork? Seems like natural pork like this or wild boar really isn’t so bad at all?
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