Why Grass Fed Beef

Grass-Fed Beef Nutrition Facts

Are you wondering, what do cows eat?

If left to its own devices, a cow will eat and thrive on a diet that’s very grass-centric with a few other foraged plants like clover thrown in. A cow has a digestive system quite different from a human’s, one that’s truly meant to flourish eating that common green flooring we all know as grass. (13)

Grass-fed beef comes from cattle that consume only grass and other foraged foods during the course of their lives. What a cow eats directly affects the types and levels of nutrients and fats you get from eating meat from that cow. Meat from 100 percent grass-fed cows is loaded with even more nutrition than what you get from a grain-fed cow. All that grazing of grass and roughage rather than being on a diet of processed foods really goes a long way.

For example, one lean grass-fed strip steak (214 grams) contains about: (14)

• 250 calories

• 49.4 grams protein

• 5.8 grams fat

• 14.3 milligrams niacin (72 percent DV)

• 1.4 milligrams vitamin B6 (70 percent DV)

• 45.1 micrograms selenium (64 percent DV)

• 7.7 milligrams zinc (52 percent DV)

• 454 milligrams phosphorus (45 percent DV)

• 2.7 micrograms vitamin B12 (45 percent DV)

• 4 milligrams iron (22 percent DV)

• 732 milligrams potassium (21 percent DV)

• 1.5 milligrams pantothenic acid (15 percent DV)

• 49.2 milligrams magnesium (12 percent DV)

• 0.1 milligram thiamin (7 percent DV)

• 27.8 micrograms folate (7 percent DV)

• 0.1 milligram copper (7 percent DV)