A Reason for Change: Eating Organ Meats
The kids and I met my Papaw for breakfast recently and I was telling him about our business, it’s products and services and how we are so excited to help people navigate living well. As I shared with him about some of our products, I got to the Transformed Salts that, along with the deliciously amazing Baja Gold mineral salts, also boast grass fed, grass finished beef organs like liver and heart. He responded with polite disgust. Perhaps thats how you feel about it too.
If I’m being honest, I’ve yet to acquire a taste for the strong flavor of beef liver and slicing into a piece of heart with my steak knife hasn’t yet made it’s way into my regular routing. However, when I learned how many of the nutrients my body needs were found in beef liver, I knew I had to find a way to get it onto my plate. I could tell you that sometimes I put a small piece of raw pastured liver in my smoothie or that I grind chicken livers in my food processor and mix it into ground beef when I make burgers, but I feel confident I would lose you if I did, which is why my favorite thing about our Transformed Salts seasoning blends is that I get all the nutrient benefits of eating organ meats without tasting them.
According to the USDA’s Food Date Central (1) beef liver is not only a good source of protein but also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium, vitamin A, B vitamins, folate, retinol, vitamin D, vitamin K, choline, amino acids and more. That’s better than most multivitamins on the market, and there has been talk as of late that encapsulated beef liver could be taken in place of a prenatal vitamin (2). Our Transformed Salt blends also include beef heart which has many of the same nutrients as liver but in different quantities (3).
Perhaps that list of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients doesn’t hold weight for you, but I can tell you with confidence they hold weight in your body! Each of those are crucial to the success of vital functions throughout your body from major organs all the way down to mitochondria at the cellular level, and getting them from whole food sources that your body readily absorbs sets you up for good health.
In keeping with our belief that God created our bodies to require nutrients and then created the food we’d eat to include those nutrients, we also believe that it is best to eat the whole of something rather than just parts. Food research often involves isolated nutrients, but the reality is that for our bodies to assimilate nutrients, another nutrient is often required, meaning that consuming them or studying them in isolation doesn’t give the whole picture. I’m a bit of a nerd and always enjoy digging into the details of nutrition, but the truth is, when we consume a variety of whole foods, we have the freedom to rest our minds when it comes to tracking our consumption of nutrients because we have confidence that each bite has what our bodies require. Eating whole foods looks like not discarding vital parts of the whole animal!
We’ve been using seasoning blends containing organ meats in our home for a while now and love how simple it became to consistently get organ meats onto our plates. The salt and pepper blend has been my go to adding it to soups, eggs in the morning, sprinkled over raw meat before baking or sauteing, mixing into chicken salad and adding to salad dressing. The taco seasoning blend is perfect for chili, tortilla soup, sprinkled into any meat or added to refried beans. If the idea of chewing up a bite of organ meat isn’t something you’re ready for, order Transformed Salts for a simple swap that increases your nutrient intake with little to no change to your normal routine!
1) FoodData Central (usda.gov) - beef liver
2) Is Organ Meat Safe During Pregnancy | The Prenatal Nutritionist
3)FoodData Central (usda.gov) - beef heart
