Healthy Food Choices: Pork

Pork is one family of meats taken from the flesh of pigs, and has been popularly produced by domesticating pigs for thousands of years. Try these tips for buying pork in this healthy shopping video.

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Pork can be lean
Trim visible fat
Use healthy cooking methods
Avoid fatty cuts, like bacon

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Michelle Cooper has been a registered dietician for more than 10 years. She currently works for the state of North Carolina for the New Hanover County School District in the Child Nutrition Department as the supervising registered dietician on staff. She specializes in child nutrition, child fitness and overall child health. She enjoys her job because it allows her to be a pivotal piece of child development.

MICHELLE COOPER: Next, we are going to talk about pork. Pork used to get a bad rap, but it is indeed the other white meat. Pork is an excellent source of protein, thymine and iron. Depending on the cut that you get, pork can be lean. Look for cuts like the shoulder or a tenderloin. Make sure that when you cook them, that you do not add fat and that you trim away any visible fat on the meat. You may want to roast, grill, barbecue, bake or broil the pork. Also, stay away from the higher fat pork products like bacon and pork ribs, and stick with the leaner cuts instead. So go ahead and add pork to your diet. Just make sure that you are buying, number one, you are buying the lean cuts like the loin or the shoulder. Number two, that you are employing a low-fat method of cooking like roasting, grilling, barbecuing. And number three, that you stay away from the high-fat pork products like bacon and the pork ribs.

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