Some varieties, notably Canadian bacon, are cut from the loin portion of the pork, which is more lean.
It is a powerhouse of essential vitamins and minerals — just three ounces of cooked lean pork covers you for more than a third of the daily requirement for thiamin, niacin, selenium and vitamin B6.
Wu Lijuan, a Guangzhou resident who bought a small plastic bag of lean pork from Mr. Zhang, said that she was eating less pork and more fish as pork prices rose.
More exciting were aromatic lemon grass patties, essentially pork burgers spiked with shallots and scented with thyme (I love the ingredient line that includes the phrase "reasonably lean pork") and grilled chicken with hot and sweet dipping sauce.
Sausage batters were formulated to contain lean pork shoulder, pork back fat/inulin, water, rusk and seasoning (44.3, 18.7, 27.5, 7 and 2.5% w/w, respectively).
For the soup, slice the lean pork into matchstick-sized strips.
Their recipe calls for me to make my own filling, using 400g lean belly pork, 300g lean pork shoulder, 150g streaky bacon and 100g pork fat, which I cut off the belly joint.
"We raise special pigs that produce lean pork," Mr. Yan said, according to the China Daily.
First she makes the stock; half an hour's simmering in water of a mixture of pork bones and lean pork, with a potato and an onion.
Clenbuterol was banned from pig feed in the 1990s, but is still used under the name "lean pork powder".
