mince

If you’re an avid meat lover, but looking for a way to increase your vegetable intake, eat more healthily, and also reduce your environmental footprint, then a flexitarian approach might be what you’re looking for. 

Incorporating meat, but also leaning heavily on supplementing with plant-based protein, this approach is where meat blends become the perfect solution and a fine example of this is Blenditarian and their Blended Burger Project.

The idea is simple – add mushrooms to meat.

Amongst Johannesburg and Cape Town meat wholesalers, N1 is a leading supplier of the highest quality Halaal and non-Halaal meat products. This includes a fine range of mince products – from steak, extra lean, topside, chicken, ostrich, mutton and lamb on the Halaal certified meat side, to pork and venison mince on the non-Halaal side.

The ostrich is the world’s largest bird – it stands up to 2.7m tall and can weigh as much as 159kg. It can’t fly, but with its long legs and powerful thighs, it can cover five metres in a single stride and can run at speeds of over 70km per hour. It also produces the world’s largest eggs – around 15cm long and weighing up to 1.5kg. But when ostriches were first sought after in the 19th century, it wasn’t for their eggs or meat – it was for their feathers.

There’s a day celebrating most things we enjoy eating or drinking, so imagine our delight to discover that there’s a World Whisky Day as well. Founded in 2012 by Blair Bowman, a whisky consultant and author of the Pocket Guide to Whisky, World Whisky Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May each year – and this year’s celebration falls on Saturday 19th May.

We all know that protein is essential to our bodies – it plays a myriad of roles from providing cell structure and strength, to aiding our immune system. The building blocks of protein are called amino acids and there are 22 specific types inherent to the process – 13 of these are produced by the body, nine are not and they must be sourced from the foods we eat. While plant-based foods will provide some of these amino acids, it is only animal-based protein that provide all nine in one go.