Why does pork smell fishy

It is normal for pork to have a little fishy smell, but if the pork has some abnormal smell such as fishy smell, we need to be careful and pay attention, because a lot of abnormal meat such as diseased pork, dead pork, etc. will have some smell. However, some other situations can also cause pork to have some unpleasant smell, such as pigs fed with slop, which is the odor produced by some microorganisms.

1. The probability of dead pigs being circulated in supermarkets is very small. Now this area is strictly checked, not to mention the circulation market, which needs to go through several checkpoints.

2. The probability of this being a sloppy pig is relatively high. But not all people who eat slop smell like pigs. If they smell like pigs, it is because the slop is not cooked thoroughly, and many harmful microorganisms in the slop are not killed and enter the pig's body, causing the meat quality to change and producing an unpleasant smell. However, the pork fed to pigs with cooked slop tastes better than that fed to pigs fed with concentrated feed. Think about how pigs were fed in rural areas many years ago. The leftovers of the day were fed directly to pigs, which was basically the same as what we humans eat. They were slaughtered during the Chinese New Year, and the smell of the meat spread throughout the whole village. So at the moment, not all pigs that eat slop are bad.

3. Commercial piglets (boars) need to be castrated after birth. Castration is to allow pigs to grow quickly. Another reason is that male hormones will make pork have a fishy smell. After castration, the secretion of male hormones is less, and the pork of "boars" will not have a peculiar smell.

Another type of pork smell is that it has been stored for a long time and has gone bad.