JJ Virgin breaks down beef labeling: all cattle eat grass initially, but grain-finished beef has higher B-vitamins while grass-finished has a better overall profile. She stocks grass-fed, grass-finished beef at home from ButcherBox and Piedmontese, but doesn't worry about the finish when eating out since grain-finished beef is still nutritious.
What do you do about this whole beef thing? The grass-fed versus— by the way, every— all the beef is grass-fed. It's whether it's grain-finished or grass-finished. And I'd say things are kind of up in the air with this right now because there are some benefits actually to grain-finished beef in terms of B vitamins versus grass-finished. Now, we tend to just eat more grass-fed, grass-finished at home because we know when we go out, we likely aren't getting it. So at home, you can see in our freezer, we We have a ton of grass-fed, grass-finished beef, some of it from ButcherBox, some of it from a place called Piedmontese. But when we're out, we do not get ourselves all worked up about the fact that it's probably grain-finished, because again, there's still some benefits to grain-finished that you wouldn't get with grass in terms of the vitamin content.
