Why does every meat that doesn’t have a specific flavor taste like chicken but some meats like beef, pork, lamb have a specific flavor?

Question

Why does every meat that doesn’t have a specific flavor taste like chicken but some meats like beef, pork, lamb have a specific flavor?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Fat is flavor. Chicken is not a particularly fatty meat, especially the breast. Beyond this, the flavor of chicken fat is not as assertive as in other popular meats.

Most exotic meats, most famously frogs legs, also don’t have much fat. This is usually because the animals have not been bred for consumption. In the absence of fat, you mostly just taste the muscle tissue, which is going to taste a lot like chicken breast.