11 Facts About Beef

Beef can be prepared in various ways; cuts are often used for steak, which can be cooked to varying degrees of doneness, while trimmings are often ground or minced, as found in most hamburgers.

Beef has a high environmental impact, being a primary driver of deforestation with the highest greenhouse gas emissions of any agricultural product.

Beef is cognate with bovine through the Late Latin bovinus.

Beef cattle are raised and fed using a variety of methods, including feedlots, free range, ranching, backgrounding and intensive animal farming.

Beef production is important to the economies of Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Paraguay, Mexico, Belarus and Nicaragua.

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Beef is first divided into primal cuts, large pieces of the animal initially separated by butchering.

Beef can be cooked to various degrees, from very rare to well done.

Beef can be cooked using the sous-vide method, which cooks the entire steak to the same temperature, but when cooked using a method such as broiling or roasting it is typically cooked such that it has a "bulls eye" of doneness, with the least done at the center and the most done at the outside.

Beef can be cooked quickly at the table through several techniques.

Beef jerky is dried, salted, smoked beef popular in the United States.

Beef is a source of complete protein and it is a rich source of Niacin, Vitamin B12, iron and zinc.