grade system for meat!

eurotrotter

hey guys
hope yer all well
Was just thinking there rcently about meat and poultry.
Is there a grading system for meat in place in ireland, where the meat in the supermarket is graded on a scale of say a to f say?
Its just I was in akrakababra and the beef burgers was decribed as 100% beef
That makes it sound as good as the beef straight off the farm, or in the top class restaurants.
My question is how can ya tell whats good meat or not?
There doesn’t appear to be grading system here in ireland!
Why not?!

EileenG

They have to accurately discribe the meat you are buying, so if it says fillet steak, it has to be fillet steak. If they say it has been aged for a certain length of time, it has to be at least that old. Apart from that, it's up to you to look at it and decide if you think it's good or bad.

Burgers have to list all ingredients and should say what amount of beef is in each burger. Most supermarket burgers are around 80% unless they say otherwise. The ones that are 100% tend to make a big deal of it, with lots of flashes on the box.

Note, "100% Irish Beef" means that all the meat used is Irish, not that the burger is 100% beef. "100% beef" means all meat, no filling.

Macha

You should look at for the Bord Bia Quality sign

http://www.bordbia.ie/aboutfood/quality/Pages/default.aspx

Also, your butcher will be a lot more of a reliable source of meat & will know more about where its come from than your average Tesco employee

rubadub

EileenG wrote: »

Note, "100% Irish Beef" means that all the meat used is Irish, not that the burger is 100% beef. "100% beef" means all meat, no filling.

Yep, just ignore the front of the box, the front is nothing but lies, the truth is on the back in the small print. I am astonished how many people are ignorant about what they eat or what is in food, all the stuff is blatantly listed out, sometimes you do have to read between the lines to see what scam they are pulling though, even they they do seem to be telling the truth, they bend it beyond belief!

jdivision

Isn't there some sort of rule that you can have nearly 10% fat etc and still it 100% beef?

EileenG

If it comes from a bovine animal, then it's 100% beef, no matter how much fat there is on it. "Beef" refers to the animal of origin, not the fat content.