According the USDA sample, raccoon meat has about 7.4 percent of
calories as PUFA, which is very similar to commercial pork, but not as
low as beaver at 5.7 percent, and much higher than ruminants. It's
lower than bear at 8.4 percent and possum at 12.1 percent, which are
also in the USDA nutrient data base. I suspect game meat probably
varies a lot by season and in the USDA data there is no indication as
to the season the meat was collected.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/59566.html Michael -- "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before, and it does not...
I've eaten raccoon a few times when I was a child. My dad (a Depression baby, he likes to say) cooked it on the barbecue pit. I remember it was good. More...
Michael- ... Hmm, interesting. I wonder what the lipid profile of raccoon meat tends to be like. -Paul [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Paul, funny you should ask. It just so happens that the USDA has nutrient data for raccoon: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ You do have to...
Bryan, ... Well thanks for doing the legwork for me in response to Paul's question and for correcting my grammar :-) How is the weight loss going by the way? I...
... Michael, doing the 18/6 fast/eat IF worked quite well for me, as I lost almost 20 pounds over 5 months from July to December. My weight has stabilized...
Bryan- Interesting. Not being a ruminant, I suppose raccoons deposit PUFA in proportion to the PUFA in their diets, which could well vary widely. On a related...
Paul, ... IIRC, pigs have been fed both coconut and potatoes but they get too lean as a result. Pork today, unlike the pork of my childhood, is far too lean...
Michael- ... I can see coconut having that effect (though I seem to recall reading that Sally buys pork from a farmer who feeds coconut to his pigs; I'd love...
Paul, ... Both I would think. High carb low fat, at least in humans, can be quite slimming if you are not suffering from metabolic syndrome and aren't...
Michael- ... In general, though, being overweight goes hand in hand with some measure of metabolic syndrome, and I'm not sure how much functional difference...
Paul, ... Right. I'm not sure why you would think I disagree, probably because I didn't phrase my previous post clearly enough. ... Well the evidence...
.> Well the evidence apparently suggests there is quite a bit of ... There was an interesting brief comment in a discussion that it's the volume of fructose...
Bryan, ... This is where I think the concept of seasonality is important. Even in tropical lands where fruit is eaten as part of a high carb diet, fruit is...
... LOL! I got them raccoon blues! I guess if he's 69 and been eating raccoons all his life they can't be too bad, despite the higher PUFA than some other...
Michael- ... I should've been more clear, but I did think it was obvious from the context that what I meant was that I don't think it matters all that much...
Paul, ... Right, but your original comment suggests that a diet high in pure starch should lead to weight gain. So when I say different carbohydrate forms I'm...
... Paul, the USDA also has data on wild boar. Cooked, it has 3.6% of calories as PUFA and 24.6% of calories as fat. That's a little more lean than cooked...
Bryan- ... Yeah, but I think the PUFA content of wild boar is low mainly because wild boar is lean, not because the PUFA fraction of the total fat in wild boar...
... Paul, that's a good point. PUFA as a percent of total fat is actually lower in commercial pork than in wild boar. ... That makes good sense. Have studies...
We had a neighbor growing up who was a hunter, and famous for his burgoo (Kentucky stew- ostensibly full of roadkill) which he only served rarely at his...
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