Many avoid eating goat meat for fear of rising blood pressure. Whereas goat meat was better than beef and chicken meat, even declared safe for consumption by people with high blood though.
Every 100 grams of goat meat contains about 109 calories. This total calorie is much lower than the beef that has 250 calories and chicken meat with a total of 195 kcal. Goat meat cholesterol levels are also lower than these two types of meat, which is about 57 mg per 100 grams. Cholesterol level of beef is about 89 mg and chicken 83 mg per portion.
If totaled, per 100 grams of goat meat contains only 2.3 grams of fat while the fat in beef can reach 15 grams and chicken meat contains approximately 7.5 grams of total fat. This means that one serving of goat meat only meets 4 percent of your daily fat requirement, when calculating 2,000 calories per day.
However, goat meat is a good source of animal protein as well as chicken and beef. The total protein in goat meat is approximately 20 grams, while beef contains about 25 grams and chicken about 30 grams per portion. A serving of 100 grams of goat meat can satisfy almost 50 percent of the body's daily protein requirement.
Causing hypertension?
Red meat is duly avoided for consumption too much, given the amount of saturated fat content is high enough. Saturated fats have long been known to increase cholesterol and trigger heart disease. Therefore, the intake of saturated fats from food should not exceed 20 grams per day.
However, goat meat really should not be too worried because the increase in blood pressure after consumption is still relatively smaller than beef or chicken. This is because the saturated fat content of goat meat is much lower than the two.
Saturated flesh of beef generally ranges around 6 grams, and chicken contains almost 2.5 grams of saturated fat per portion. Meanwhile, the saturated fat content of goat meat is only about 0.71 grams per 100 grams of meat weight.
Goat meat is actually enriched by unsaturated fats, about 1 gram per serving, compared to beef or chicken. Unsaturated fats are a kind of good fats that help balance blood cholesterol levels, reduce inflammation in the body, and stabilize heart rate.
Then, where does the myth of eating goat meat come from?
Eating goat meat does not cause hypertension. However, there are several factors that indirectly contribute to the increase in blood pressure after taking it. Blood pressure rises after eating goat meat tends to be caused by incorrect cooking techniques.
Processed goat meat in Indonesia is generally fried first before further processing, or baked and baked for sate and goat bolsters. Cooking by frying, baking, or baking will increase the calories of the food rather than the raw version.
Plus, processing meat in these ways requires a lot of cooking oil, butter, or margarine that will turn into fat and absorbed quite a lot by the meat.
Hot temperatures when frying or baking make the water content in the food evaporate disappear, and replaced with oil-derived fat. Fat absorbed into the flesh then causes food that was low in calories to be high calorie.
In fact, the increase in calories that occur from these three ways of cooking can reach 64% of the previous calories. High-calorie intake in the body will be converted into fat, which over time can accumulate in the blood vessels that increase blood pressure.