It is called: dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat in the ground."
Turning over the meat map of people around the world, only Chinese love donkey meat so deeply, no matter how expensive lv, and the Chinese of "the people take food as the sky", are also appetizers.
Donkey meat, how delicious is it?
Donkey meat not only tastes better, but also has higher nutritional value.
Donkey meat is rich in a variety of elements needed by the human body, including amino acids, methionine, and the protein content per 100g is much higher than that of pork. Because of this, donkey meat has also become a tonic in people's minds.
Donkey meat is light and delicious, neither the fat of pork, nor the smell of mutton, is the best of animal meat. And donkeys have a hundred ways to die, and each one dies for what it deserves.
Especially Chinese, who have infinite creativity in eating, obviously do not willingly eat only donkey meat and burn it.
There are representative donkey meat delicacies in many places, such as donkey meat with sauce from Beijingers, shangdang donkey meat from Changzhi, Shanxi, and donkey meat from Jiaozuo in Henan.
Especially the donkey intestine, the intestinal wall is thick and the texture is strong, and the donkey intestine is fat but not greasy, and the aroma is straight to the lungs. No wonder that after Song Qi of the Song Dynasty finished eating, he couldn't help but leave a verse ----- "I can't find it all over Luoyang, and the west wind is a burst of plate intestines." ”
(Brine donkey intestine)
Donkey meat is good, but some people are not suitable for eating more
Although donkey meat is so high-quality, not only has a good taste and is very nutritious, it also has shortcomings and is not suitable for everyone.
1. Patients with gastrointestinal discomfort
Donkey meat is cold in nature, and for people with poor gastrointestinal function, eating donkey meat is prone to diarrhea, which increases the burden on the stomach and intestines.
In addition, donkey meat contains a lot of protein, people with poor gastrointestinal function are not easy to digest after eating, which may aggravate the disease, so people with gastrointestinal diseases should not eat.
2. Gout patients
People with gout should not eat seafood, but also pay attention not to eat too much donkey meat. This is because donkey meat contains a large amount of purines, which can induce gout and cause aggravation.
3. Patients with nephritis
Since donkey meat is a high-protein food, each 100 grams of donkey meat contains 21.5 grams of protein, and protein needs to be metabolized through the kidneys, so if you eat too much donkey meat, it will increase the metabolic burden of the kidneys.
Therefore, for people with renal insufficiency and nephritis, it is more necessary to limit the amount of donkey meat to avoid aggravating the disease.
Donkey meat, can not aphrodisiac
Flip through the "aphrodisiac" food menu and you'll find that donkey meat is also on the list.
But in fact, whether it is donkey meat, or other dog meat, mutton or whatever, or even snake meat, loach, etc., these meats do not have a clear effect to play an aphrodisiac effect.
The reason for this statement is that the most important thing is that resources such as donkey meat are relatively scarce, especially in the Lingnan region, people can rarely eat it, so they tend to be superstitious that its meat quality will be better, which makes up the legend of "aphrodisiac".
Especially when you open the map and search with "donkey meat" as the keyword, you will find that donkey meat shops are almost all in the north, especially in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the number of stores is far ahead, followed by shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other major cities in the northeast region.
In contrast, there are very few donkey meat shops in southern cities.
Why is this happening?
The main reason is that in ancient China, cattle were the main source of agriculture, so many dynasties had explicit regulations prohibiting the slaughter of cattle without permission, and mutton was expensive and difficult for ordinary people to enjoy.
What about pigs?
Sorry, although the pig industry has been prosperous in the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the southern region, Sichuan, Hunan and other places are more developed pig industry. Therefore, in the north, the number of pigs raised and the consumption of pork are also recorded much less than in the south.
But for donkeys, because donkeys need much less feed and hay than cattle and horses, but at that time, donkeys were also the main force of cultivated land, although there was no explicit prohibition on killing donkeys, but ordinary people did not easily kill donkey meat to eat.
Only when it is a last resort, donkeys will be killed to eat, and donkey meat is often eaten with carbohydrates, such as donkey meat fire, donkey meat cake and so on.
It is precisely because of this rare delicacy that donkey meat has become the most famous meat in North China.
Having said all that, hurry downstairs and buy a donkey meat to burn!
bibliography:
[1] Li Qun: A Study on the Development of Animal Husbandry in Modern China, Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University
[2] "You Juan, Luo Yongkang, Zhang Yanchun, Zheng Zhe: Analysis and Comparison of The Main Nutritional Components of Donkey Meat and Other Livestock and Poultry Meat", Meat Research