Iberian Foal Ham

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About Foal Ham

Hispano-Briton breed is the Castilla y León’s native horse breed, recently created as it got the official validation only in 1997. It was shaped to cover the need to have a heavy and strong horse breed. It was got by crossing Briton breed stallions with native mares.

Foal Ham

Comes from proveniente horses younger than 24 months. Its Hispano-Briton breed has a special official protection in the region especial, specially for the meat production.

The Hispano-Briton breed does a land-use labour of the vegetal resources existing in the mountains where it’s raised, resources that would be lost otherwise, contibuting this way to keep the mountains pastures’ ecosystem, also helping to avoid the development of fires by keeping them clear. As they feed themselves with pastures, we could say that the meat obtained is an ecological one and a very clean one as the horses spend most of their lives in the mountains and not in the stables.

From the dietary and sanitary points of view and compared to other types of meat, this hores meat has several very interesting qualities:

Less fat content, richer in glucogene and higher proteins values.
Presumed anti-anemic due to its high content of iron.
Important source of phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and copper.
Compared to other types of meat, it is rich in pyridoxine.
High contents of Omega 3 fat acids.

Attributes:

Abundant in B vitamin, very tender and easy to digest, what makes it specially suitable for diets made for children, sportsmen, elderly and people suffering anemia.
Another important property is its taste, sweety and nice due to its glucogene content, proper for children’s intake. Tuberculosis inmunizing.

Chart to compare it with other types of meat:

Componente Horse Cow Pig Ostrich Turkey Chicken Lamd
Energía (Kcal.) 107-121 129-150 151 104 160 112-124 121-216
Humedad (%) 73-75 53-74 52-74 76 70 75 58-65
Proteínas (g) 21-23 15-21 14-20 18 21 20-22 15-20
Colesterol (mg) 20 65 60 38 68 78 70
Grasa (g) 1-3 13-28 23-32 2 8 11 16-26

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