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Taste is the first criterion when it comes to appreciating beef

10 August, 2020

Several agri-food research centers in France have studied the general appreciation of beef by consumers. Among tenderness, juiciness and taste, the latter stands out as the sensory dimension that contributes the most to general appreciation (39%), followed by tenderness (31%) and juiciness (24%).

Journey to the dawn of humanity: Did you know that if the hominids had not started eating meat we would not have reached Homo Sapiens?

5 August, 2020

"The human being, if he had never consumed meat, he would not be a human being." This is how resounding the Professor in Prehistory Carlos Díez is shown at the beginning of the chapter. A trip to the beginnings of the human being, the importance of meat in our evolution, the invention of fire and cooking, thanks to the surprising story of its protagonist: Maite.

Interovic recalls that sheep and goat farming prevents forest fires

3 August, 2020

The millennial custom of moving goats and sheep to provide them with food is currently an effective and sustainable way of keeping mountains and ravines clean. An adult goat ingests between 1.5 and 2.5 kg of dry plant matter daily (350 to 1500 g of leaves and scrub shoots). Adult sheep, grazing, can consume 2 to 3 kg of dry matter daily (scrub and woody species). A way of converting dangerous vegetable waste, of which nobody deals, into a delicious resource, of proximity and nutritionally excellent, the meats of suckling pig, sheep and goat of European origin.

Conference on the impact on the livestock sector and health of the “From Farm to Fork” Strategy

31 July, 2020

Plataforma Carne y Salud organized an online workshop to analyze the impact on the Spanish livestock sector and health of the 'From Farm to Fork' strategy recently presented by the European Commission. "We need a common commitment to defend our products, our livestock production model and our Mediterranean diet, with a balanced consumption of all foods for health," said MEP Clara Aguilera in her speech at the online conference organized by the Platform " . "Necesitamos una apuesta común para defender nuestros productos, nuestro modelo de producción ganadera y nuestra dieta mediterránea, con un consumo equilibrado de todos los alimentos para la salud", manifestó la eurodiputada Clara Aguilera en su intervención en la jornada online organizada por la Plataforma".

Informe del Comité Científico de la AESAN sobre la implementación en España del Sistema de información Nutri-Score sobre la calidad nutricional de productos alimenticios

10 July, 2020

Una de las herramientas de las políticas de salud pública para promover dietas saludables es el etiquetado nutricional, que es regulado en la Unión Europea por el Reglamento (UE) Nº 1169/2011 sobre el suministro de información alimentaria a los consumidores. Esta regulación permite la posibilidad de utilizar, de forma complementaria y voluntaria manera, un sistema de etiquetado nutricional delante del paquete para hacer uso y comprensión de la información nutricional obligatoria: es más fácil para los consumidores, favorece opciones más saludables y fomenta fabricantes para hacer productos con una mejor composición nutricional.