Buffalo burgers are hamburgers made wi meat frae the American bison (Bison bison).[1]
Author Dan O'Brien said that buffalo meat is sweet an tender an haes a unique taste. He said that it haes tae be prepared as carefully as fresh fish an aw.[2] The magazine Women's Health said that the taste o beef burgers an buffalo burgers is amaist indistinguishable, but that buffalo burgers are a bit sweeter an mair tender. It normally costs mair nor beef.[3]
Buffalo burgers hae less cholesterol, less fat, an less fuid energy than burgers made frae beef or chicken. The American Heart Association recommendit buffalo burgers in 1997 as mair hert-halthy than chicken or beef.[4] The burger is heich in nutrients such as protein, zinc, an vitamin B12.[3] Buffalo burgers are mair halthy than beef acause bison dae no store as hintle fat as cattle. A 85-gram (3-ounce) servin o buffalo meat haes 390 kilojoule (93 kilocalorie) an 1.8 g o fat compared tae 770 kJ (183 kcal) an 8.7 g o fat in the same servin as beef.[5] A recipe for simple buffalo burgers wis leetit in Men's Health Muscle Chow.[6] The magazine EatingWell came up wi a buffalo burger recipe that is law in cholesterol an heich in calcium.[7]