What is all included when someone vows to give up red meat?!


Question: I've abstained from hamburgers, steak, ham, pork, pepperoni, sausage, salami, and bologna for about 5 months now. I only eat chicken, turkey and seafood but recently I was told pepperoni is not included as 'red meat.'

Can someone make this really specific for me?


Answers: I've abstained from hamburgers, steak, ham, pork, pepperoni, sausage, salami, and bologna for about 5 months now. I only eat chicken, turkey and seafood but recently I was told pepperoni is not included as 'red meat.'

Can someone make this really specific for me?

Pepperoni is made of cow and pig, generally speaking. Beef is of course red meat. Pork, on the other hand, leads to confusion, because of that idiotic "other white meat" campaign. It's true that if you're going purely by color, pork more closely resembles poultry and other white meats. However, from a nutritional standpoint, pork is red meat. From a nutritional standpoint, red meat is any meat from a mammal. So anything made from a cow, pig, goat, sheep, etc would be red meat. Anything from a bird, like chicken, duck, turkey, goose, etc, would be white meat (even though the birds themselves are divided up into white meat and dark meat) . . . it's all sort of a mess, and the pork industry just made it more confusing with their add campaign.

So anyway, since pepperoni is made of mammals, it would be red meat nutritionally.

pepperoni is junk anyway, youd be best to stay away from it regardless

ok, anything NOT red meat, fish, chicken turkey, pheasant..you get where i am going yeah? though you can eat pork to ..

eat chicken bologna...no red meat.


huh i always figured pepperoni was beef. as is summer sausage..etc.

hey you should be able to eat vienna sausages cause i think they are made from pork and chicken..

I agree with the inglesh majur...stay away from it anyway.

pepperoni is made from pork, "the other white meat"

I believe it is any meat that comes from mammals who walk the earth. Whale is a mammal but not considered red meat.

its all meat babe..

yeah it is red meat the onlything u van eat is chicken.but red meat contains iron which is gd 4 u ..pepperoni is fatty like bacon

It's usually made of pork and beef (pork is NOT the other white meat - it's red meat) but you can get turkey or chicken pepperoni or even veggie pepperoni.

Pepperoni is pork.

Pork is red meat.

Don't listen to anyone that tells you that pork is white meat. They have fallen for a marketing ploy by the pork industry to make them think it is healthier than it is.

pepperoni is pork. it is actually the pigs head all grinded up. bon appetite





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