Abstract:
Meat plays an indispensable role in human diets, providing essential nutrients for daily life activities. Currently, the impacts of livestock and poultry meat as well as their processed products on human health have attracted more and more attention. Based on the research findings of meat nutrition and safety at home and abroad in recent years, present paper systematically compared and analyzed the nutrients in livestock and poultry meat. The consistent influences on human health, such as carcinogenic effect, induced by meat harmful substances which are formed in the storage and processing of different kind of meat, along with food additives, veterinary drug residues, pesticide residues, were deeply discussed. The different effects of fatty acid content, N-hydroxyacetylneurine, heme iron and other substances on human health due to different types of meat were clarified. Our current analysis revealed the potential threats to human health, causing by processed meat products such as bacon, ham and sausage, and provides a theoretical basis for people to rationally coordinate livestock and poultry products and choose healthy and balanced diet.