Why aren’t all animal proteins the same color? Ex-Why aren’t chicken, pork and beef all red? What determines a proteins color?

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Why aren’t all animal proteins the same color? Ex-Why aren’t chicken, pork and beef all red? What determines a proteins color?

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Answer 1

You mean meat, not protein.

And meat is not only made out of protein, its many cells with all kinds of stuff. Red meat has its color from myoglobin a protein that transports oxygen.

White meat does have less or none of that.