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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: LePatron7 on April 27, 2012, 04:19:55 am
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Hello everyone.
What are the odds that store bought pastured meats and fish's omega 3's are already rancid when purchased?
I know flax seed oil is sold refrigerated for that very reason.
Could the fats in store bought meat already be rancid?
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Irrelevant. Aged, raw meat is fine for consumption.
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Good to know. Thanks.
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Tyler, I don't know,, I agree aged meat in my fridge is better than fresh, but after a couple of weeks or less, fat goes off and definitely doesn't give me the energy that fresh fat does. I think it does oxidize. But then there are other nutrients in fat besides fat that could be going off flavor etc. Low temp rendered fat (under 110 ) does fine stored away in the fridge in jars,, but there's no air and relatively no moisture to initiate rancidity. In the wild, any fat on a carcass would be some of the first parts picked over by scavengers...so it would never really pose a problem there.
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I've never had a problem with raw, aged fat, such as when making "high-meat". I agree it does oxidise when stored for long periods, but, apparently, this only happens at a very slow rate. And the oxidisation is, I believe, of a different order to the heat-created oxidisation caused by cooking.
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Thanks for the info.
I just thought about it... Pastured beef omegas probably don't go rancid because of the large amount of vitamin e. Pastured beef has much more vitamin e than regular beef.
Unlike flax seed oil, which has no vitamins at all.