Technically it is. Bacon is generally referred to in the sense of it being pork. Beef, Turkey, and any other animal with a belly can technically render bacon. It gets cofusing because the United States National Pork Board (USNPB) released that very famous ad campaign, "Pork, the other white meat." This has brought about a large demographic confusion as to the true nature of the product.
Accordring to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pork is a red meat. All livestock (Pork, Beef, Veal, and Lamb) are considered as red meat. This name comes from the ammount of myoglobin (a protein which retains oxygen) in the cells of the meat. While pork does turn whiter as you cook it longer, it is always red/pink when it is raw.
No, chicken doesn't come under red meat. Mutton and beef do.
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Yes, bacon is meat.
Meat is food that is made from animals. Bacon is made fromg pigs. Therefore, it is meat.
Bacon is a cured meat made from pork. Pork is the meat of pigs.
Pork bacon is not a starch. It is an animal meat and meat is protein and fat.
Bacon is made from pig meat
no bacon is is just a cut of the pig
Bacon comes from pigs (pork)
Bacon is in the "meat and substitutes" food group because it is made from swine and contains protein. It also contains a lot of saturated fat, salt and preservatives, though, so it should be considered a snack or junk food, and eaten in moderation.
The meat from the back and sides of a pig is called bacon. Bacon is usually cured and then dried, boiled or smoked.
no, it is a white meat. the terms white and red meat refer to the color it turns when it is cooked, not the color it is raw.
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