Is offal better for you?

[Ellendra]

I wouldn't eat the filter organs too often unless I knew exactly what the animal had been exposed to, just because any toxins will tend to be concentrated there. I am rather sensitive to toxins, though, so it might be fine for most people. The non-filtering organs, such as heart, tongue, etc, often have a higher concentration of nutrients than the muscle meats.

Pioneers and explorers used to starve to death on muscle meats, but if they ate the organs they'd be fine. That was one of the observations made on the Lewis and Clarke expedition, that the men who ate only the muscle meat during the winter from the deer they hunted were always hungry and looked starved, some died of starvation even eating several pounds of meat per day. But the natives would ignore the muscle meat and eat the organs from the same deer, and were fine.

[bill1953]

It's the first thing hyenas and wild dogs go for, but then that's because it's their version of fast food, muscle takes longer to chew

[the.fee.fairy]

All very interesting. Thanks!

Maybe I'm deficient in something and that's why all i want to eat is liver and kidney at the moment.
Probably vitamin whatever it is that comes from the sun. It's been miserable here for the past fortnight and tipping it down for the past 6 hours

[chickenchargrill]

Beef liver is good for Vitamin D, but generally offal is good for A, B, iron and, of course, protein. My mum used to make liver and onions for us to help with that time of the month.

[Ellendra]

Lard is good for vitamin D if the pig spent time outdoors.