Meat Consumption In Food

Meat has a distinct position in the food market and has been consumed by humans since pre- historic day because of rich source of protein. Meat consumption is increasing with increasing population especially in developing countries. Providing safe, nutritious, and healthy food for poor and undernourished populations has been a major challenge for the developing world. The world population increasing day by day. The world population have reached 7.6 billion in 2017. According to united state estimate it will further increase to 11.2 billion by the year 2100 (United Nation, 2016). According to organization for economic corporation and development the consumption of meat around the world is an average of 75 pounds of meat per person per year (Lauren, 2015).
According to survey of FAO, the per capita meat consumption has increased from 2002 to 2009. In Pakistan the per capita consumption of meat has increased from 12.7 to 14.7 kg/person from 2002-2009 (Brown …show more content…
Meat proteins contain all essential amino acids necessary for growth and contribute to food industry by imparting specific functionalities (Xiong, 2004).
However, from heath point of view, certain population groups have some problems relating to the consumption of meat because of high fat content (Muguerza et al., 2004). Meat contain cholesterol and high proportion of saturated fatty acids than unsaturated fatty acid that lead to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, cancer etc. Increased proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acid has a suppressive effect on the onset of many diseases like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and obesity (Simopoulos, 2002).
Plants have a high proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acid of which α-linolenic acid is present in large quantity in plant products (Jimenez-Colmenero, 2007). But ratio of these PUFAs in animals is less as compared to