What does “nose to tail” mean?
Nose to tail refers to a way of looking at and using any animal that will become part of our food supply.
It harks back to how our ancestors, both in recent history and further back into the mists of time consumed animal products.
Quite simply, every part of an animal would be used to supply food or even useful tools and clothing for those who had hunted it, from its nose to its tail!
Nothing would be wasted.
Muscle meats dominate our diet
These days, we tend to only consume muscle meats such as steaks, chops, and minced/ground meat. Whilst this is protein dense and nutritious there are other parts of the animal that are even more potent.
As an example, we know that liver is the most nutrient packed foodstuff in nature, with all manner of vitamins alongside growth and repair factors. No man-made multivitamin can get close to this complex and powerful food.
The liver is often eaten the moment an animal has been hunted when it is fresh and has no chance to degrade. This organ is highly prized by hunters because they know how good it is for them. Eating nose to tail is the only way they know.
The same applies to all the animals’ organs. Eating nose to tail provides amazing trace minerals and vitamins that enhance our health in a form that is to all intents and purposes bioidentical to humans.
The organs also contain important growth factors that help maintain and repair your body.
Nose to tail eating is becoming associated with the carnivore diet and its cousins, the paleo diet and ketogenic diet.
All these diets hark back to eating wholefoods that help lower blood sugars, reduce insulin spikes in your body and aid metabolic health.
Ancestral eating
Nose to tail eating also adds in many vital components that are often missing from modern western diets. These highly processed diets often leave us deficient in such things as copper, iron, collagen, and magnesium, amongst others.
Did you know that lamb’s liver has five times more iron in it than lamb chops? Veal liver has five times more zinc than a veal steak, and beef liver has up to 30 times more magnesium than beef steak!
Truly eating nose to tail brings you an abundance of benefits and our products make it easy and convenient to get closer to this common sense philosophy.
For many people, the idea of boosting their health and wellbeing through adding organ meats to their diet makes perfect sense - but the idea of having to consume them regularly is less appealing. The good news is, the CARNICOPIA "nose to tail" range solves this problem - a single daily serving contains carefully desiccated organs from organic, grass-fed sources to provide a wide range of benefits.
