What does 30% protein mean on the chicken strips, wings, ribs, etc I get from the grocery store? Is the item only 30% real meat?
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It’s because meat isn’t pure protein. There’s also a good percent of water (60+%) and fat, and trace amounts of minerals and some vitamins.
>Is the item only 30% real meat?
No, it means it’s 30% Protein. *All* foods are made of of some combination of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and water (and vitamins and minerals), because that’s what all living things are made of and we eat things that were once alive. The chicken strips are 30% protein because chicken meat isn’t pure protein, it’s a mix of the things I listed above.
No its 100% real meat. But meat is not all protein. Its 30% protein, and maybe 25% fat, 10% carbs, 45% water, for example.
It’s 100% real meat.
You probably heard that human body is roughly 70% water. Well, it’s similar with animals.
Proteins are just the types of molecules that make up your (and animal) body.
If you take a chunk of meat, ~30% of that chunk are proteins, ~10% fat, ~60% water, and less than ~1% of vitamins, minerals, and other stuff (exact percentages vary depending on what kind of meat we’re talking about).
[https://www.nutritionvalue.org/public_ingredient_11856.html?size=100+g](https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/poultry-products/696/2)
On this link you can see all the things that are contained within a certain food.
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