Beef Jerky
Beef Jerky is dried meat of American cuisine from marinated or salted, sliced into thin strips of beef ( English : beef ). It is usually eaten as a snack without any further preparation and also serves as provisions .
Manufacture and distribution
To make Beef Jerky, beef is freed from fat and tendons, cut into slices or strips a few millimeters thick, marinated for about a day in a marinade made from various seasoning sauces , spices and / or salt and then spread out on grids at approx. 50 ° C dried. There are differently seasoned variants. Depending on the marinade and the piece of meat used, Beef Jerky contains around 50% protein , 2 to 7% fat and 2 to 25% carbohydrates .
Today, beef jerky is mainly produced industrially. The most important production countries are the USA, Brazil , Uruguay and Argentina . The world market leader is the family business Jack Link’s from the USA.
