Yeah, that confused me. also, but apparently there's a pretty strong consensus that rabbit meat is white meat.
I always thought the white vs red meat was mostly about how much use the muscles got, but apparently some of it is from the actual type of muscle fibers there are; the slow-twitch vs fast-twitch muscles.
Which, huh. Didn't know that. But it makes sense, that it's not just the color. If it was really just color, you could take the exact same piece of meat and turn it from one to the other, just by how you prepared and treated it. And I know that no matter what you do to, say, a beefsteak, no one is going to call it white meat, even if it ends up looking white. Nor will people call chicken breast red meat even if you marinade it in something that turns it bright crimson.
So... more than just color.
On the other hand, duck breast is dark meat, because they're flyers and use those muscles, and chicken breast is usually white because they're farmed and don't fly much.
So... ?
Well, now, I'm back to being confused.
Also, apparently, you can have "dark" meat which is still not "red" meat, because of something or other I don't understand at all. Something about myoglobin levels and oxidation?
Frankly it is very confusing.
Wait, okay, Wikipedia says that the definitions for white and red meat vary depending if you go by "traditional gastronomy" categorization or by "nutritional studies" (in which all mammalian meat is red meat and all poultry and fish meat is white meat)
So maybe I'm mixing up light vs dark meat, and red vs white meat?
Or the whole thing is just a muddle.
I vote that last one.
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