The great thing
about beef liver is that it has the real food form of folic acid, folate, and it has a whole lot of it.
Now I have no preconceived notions
about beef liver because I've never had it before.
Not exact matches
1 ripe banana Small handful of berries (strong - flavored ones like blackberries are raspberries are best) Coconut milk —
about 1/4 cup Raw cream —
about 1 tablespoon Coconut oil — a large spoonful Flax seed oil —
about 1 teaspoon Pinch of sea salt Lemon juice — 1 - 2 teaspoons Maple syrup or honey 1 - 2 raw egg yolks (from pastured hens) Raw
beef liver * —
about 1 - 2 teaspoons, finely chopped
To avoid folic acid deficiency, people need
about 400 micrograms a day.Foods rich in folic acid include vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, lettuce, turnip greens, okra, and asparagus; fruits such as bananas, melons, and lemons; and beans, yeast, mushrooms,
beef liver and kidney, orange juice, and tomato juice.
Although all meats contain some amount of vitamin B12,
liver (especially
beef liver) blows everything else out of the water, with almost three times as much B12 as kidney, seven times as much as heart, and
about 17 times as much as tongue or ground
beef.
Per 100 grams (
about a half cup of chlorella and a serving of
beef liver), chlorella has almost one and a half times as much vitamin B6, almost twice as much B2 (riboflavin), and eight and a half times as much B1 (thiamin).
From the work of Weston Price, we can assume that the amount in primitive diets was
about 50,000 IU per day, which could be achieved in a modern diet by consuming generous amounts of whole milk, cream, butter and eggs from pastured animals;
beef or duck
liver several times per week; and 1 tablespoon regular cod
liver oil or 1/2 tablespoon high - vitamin cod
liver oil per day.
The putative toxic dose of 100,000 IU per day would be contained in 3 tablespoons of high vitamin cod
liver oil, 6 tablespoons of regular cod
liver oil, two - and - one - half 100 - gram servings of duck
liver,
about three 100 - gram servings of
beef liver, seven pounds of butter or 309 egg yolks.
What
about parasites inside the raw
beef liver???? watch out for parasites as with every raw uncooked meat.
This post was supposed to be
about how awesome grass - fed
beef liver is and how you all HAVE to try it.
At
about 6 months of age, grate a bit of raw, grassfed
beef or chicken
liver into the warm egg yolk for baby to eat.
I remember when I was 8, the wife of the school director was sharing a «treat» with a few lucky kids (I was among the very few): fried
beef liver in butter (don't know how she got that but I didn't ask)... I told you, we are talking
about another food and behavior paradigm... Of course, it is easy to remember this period of time with rosy lenses but really, what a change in just 3 decades.
I've been following the recommendations very closely: 2 tsp FCLO from Green Pastures everyday,
about 2 cups of raw milk a day, a couple of tablespoons of raw butter a day, 2 eggs plus 3 egg yolks per day,
liver occasionally, wild salmon
about once a week,
beef almost daily, 2 tbsp coconut oil daily, bone broths often, grains only that are soaked (occasionally), fresh fruit and veggies, no sugar or junk food at all.
You also note that 1/4 lb of
beef liver contains 12 - 16 mg of copper — which averages to the daily rate of
about 2 mg per.
It is found that three ounces of
beef liver contains
about one fourteenth of regular dose of vitamin D.
Plus, chicken
liver is even higher in folate than and
about equal in zinc to
beef liver.
I did a whole chapter in v2.0 of my book
about it, demonstrating that for 4 oz of
beef liver, you need
about 5 pounds of fruit to approximate the micro nutrition.
Consider eating 1/4 to 1/2 pound of
liver once per week (1/4 pound of
beef liver contains
about 30,000 IU of retinol).
Meats and Organs: Duck, Lamb,
Beef, Rabbit, Venison, Wild game birds such as Pheasant or Partridge, Chicken — chicken necks, thighs, wings and even feet are great choices (chickens have softer bones, but you should still be careful
about bones), Whole fish like Trout, Salmon, Haddock (you can even freeze raw fish meat and feed it as a treat), Offal such as
liver, kidneys and so on are excellent but incredibly rich so use these very infrequently.
In many cases, and I've written
about these in the Whole Dog Journal, adding a copper supplement to a recipe that includes
beef liver causes the diet to exceed the European legal limit for copper in dog food.
The final display is all
about the Meijer private - label brand, including pig ears, peanut butter biscuits,
liver biscuits, dried
beef strips and other dog chews and treats.