Beef's Nutrition
Strong families start with strong nutrition - and beef delivers. Packed with high-quality protein and 10 essential nutrients like iron and zinc, beef helps fuel active days and balanced meals. From busy weeknights to family time around the table, it’s a delicious way to support energy, strength, and overall well-being!
Unlocking the Power of Beef: A nutritional Ally for those on Weight Loss Medications
Every bite matters, beef makes it count. With high-quality protein and essential nutrients like iron and zinc, it helps protect muscle, support strong bones, and keep your body nourished during weight loss, including medication-supported journeys.
Balance with Beef: Fuel Your Body with Strength, Movement & Fun
When people think “wellness,” they picture tough workouts and superfood salads, but real wellness is all about balance. It’s fueling your body, moving with purpose, and enjoying food you love - like high-protein beef.
Recipe collections to crush your mealtime goals
Strong & Balanced
Delicious, easy-to-make meals that combine protein, veggies, and grains, helping your family stay fueled and satisfied.
Heart-Healthy Beef Made Simple
Enjoying beef as part of a heart-healthy lifestyle is easier than you think. These Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner.® recipes are all American Heart Association®–certified, so you can serve meals that are delicious, satisfying, and heart-smart.
Eat Well, Live Well
Real beef is a flavorful part of a Mediterranean-inspired, heart-healthy lifestyle. Explore recipes paired with fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and seeds.
A Taste of Missouri
Burnt Ends with Mac and Cheese
With a nod to Kansas City, these smoked Chuck Roast "burnt end" pieces will be the highlight of your next barbecue. Flavorful beef pieces topped with sticky barbecue sauce and served with creamy mac and cheese.
Slinger Smashburgers
A regional St. Louis Classic reimagined into a delicious burger. Inspired by the original slinger which consists of ground beef, hashbrowns, chili, cheese and onion.
Glazed Short Ribs with Johnny Cakes
St. Louis-style short ribs seasoned with a Missouri-style rub and glazed with root beer glaze. These delicious ribs pair perfectly with spicy cornmeal cakes.
Nourish with Beef
Wellness isn’t just what’s on your plate—it’s about joy, connection, and shared moments. From backyard cookouts to cozy family dinners, beef has a way of bringing people together, feeding both body and soul.
The connection between beef's protein and strength
Beef’s essential nutrients - high-quality protein, iron, zinc, and B vitamins - fuel both body and mind, helping you stay strong at every stage of life. Discover how beef, paired with a healthy lifestyle, supports muscle and mental strength.
The power of beef's protein
Beef is a powerhouse of high-quality protein, delivering about 25 grams in a 3 oz serving, half your daily value. Protein supports muscle growth, helps maintain a healthy weight, and keeps you feeling full longer. Paired with an active lifestyle, beef’s protein helps fuel energy, build lean muscle, and support overall wellness.
Strength at Every Age
6 Reasons to feed beef to your baby
Explore why and how to introduce beef to your infant or toddler and discover the benefits it offers for early growth and development.
Every bite counts - feeding beef in the early years
Every bite counts in your baby’s first 24 months. Start with nutrient-packed beef - puree, mash, chop, or shred to match their growing needs and support healthy development.
Tiny bites, big impact: beef iron matters
The first 1,000 days matter most. Iron and protein from beef fuel your baby’s brain, helping shape growth, learning, and lifelong potential.
Build your most valuable plate with beef
As a sports family always on the go, beef delivers quick, convenient, protein-packed meals that help fuel growing kids from the first pitch to the final play.
Beef helps make every bite count for tweens and teens
Poor nutrition in teens and tweens can impact growth, learning, and immunity, making nutrient-rich foods like beef an easy way to help fuel development, support focus, and keep growing bodies strong.
Higher protein diets can support weight loss
New evidence published on obesity grows evidence demonstrating the benefits of higher protein diets and their impact on supporting weight loss and improving T2D status.
More to Explore
The Protein Shift: Where Beef Fits
Healthy diets may look different, but they share similar foundations. Beef delivers high-quality protein and essential nutrients like iron, zinc, and B-vitamins.
Cut Nutrition
Beef is a powerhouse protein, delivering 10 essential nutrients in every bite. While cuts vary slightly, each one brings strong, satisfying nutrition.
Lean Beef
Beef isn’t just delicious, it’s nutrient-rich too. A 3 oz. serving of lean beef delivers 10 essential nutrients and about half your daily protein in just 170 calories.
Big nutrition. Small package.
Beef delivers big nutrition in a small serving. Just 3 oz. provides 10 essential nutrients and about half your daily protein - plus more iron and zinc per serving than many other proteins.
Beef for Heart-Healthy Living
Healthy eating and enjoying beef can go hand in hand. Research shows lean beef can be part of a heart-healthy diet that supports normal cholesterol levels.
Beef Nutrition FAQs
Beef tastes great - and it fits into a healthy lifestyle, too. Get answers to your top questions about beef and nutrition.
Resources for Healthcare Professionals
Beef is an excellent source of protein and supplies 10 essential nutrients including B-vitamins, zinc, and iron. Discover resources to help promote and share the nutritional benefits of beef.
Beef Aficionados
Calling all credentialed health and nutrition professionals! The Beef Aficionados is an online community of nutrition experts who support the role of beef in healthy eating patterns that was created to connect, empower, and amplify your work to optimize nutrition for all. As a Beef Aficionado, you’ll have exclusive opportunities to engage with Beef experts, early access to nutrition research and resources, and inspiration for showcasing beef’s role in a healthy lifestyle. Apply today and join this growing network!
Beef Nutrition Education Hub
The beef nutrition education hub, managed by a team of nutrition scientists and registered dietitians, is an education portal tailored to support the needs of the health and nutrition community. Create an account, access on-demand courses and earn complimentary continuing professional education credits approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.