Has anyone else been getting questionable ground beef? The last few shipments have had a weird whiteness to the meat. Maybe they’re using less coloring in the meat, but I’m used to beef being a little more pink than this. Idk about the batch in these pictures, but past batches have smelled fine. They just looked a little strange.
Both packages look more similar in person, but the bottom definitely looks a little more pink in the picture.
Anyone else having this issue, or is it even an issue? Maybe just oxidization?
by DuraWrangler
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I’m not sure why I can’t edit the post, but to be clear this isn’t a complaint. I’m just curious if this looks okay to others and if anyone else has been seeing this color with their ground beef.
I’ve noticed this too. I’m not sure why or what’s causing it though. I’m curious to see if others have any insight.
It’s part of the reason we finally cancelled. Veggies were tiny, garlic and ginger so small it was virtually unusable. The meat started coming like this too. Then the meat wouldn’t even last 3 days in the refrigerator. I ended up buying more and more groceries to supplement the small and/or bad veggies.
Mine have been the same recently
I just decided to cancel again because of how fatty and oxidized the beef has been lately. The meat is completely submerged in the pan during browning. I’m estimating it’s closer to 70% lean / 30% fat.
Mine are always good, those are fine
To be fair mine have tasted fine, even though they looked like this. But I agree they don’t look like they used to.
Could be a change in cow feed because of the weather.
I’ve been having this issue with pork. Last two boxes.
This is why I just cancelled my subscription. The ground beef is AWFUL now.
This is why I stopped using them. The ground meat was extremely fatty, the chicken was irregular sizes, the pork was tough, and the seasoning veggies tiny.
I stopped hello fresh about 8 months ago and never will go back.
I now go to the grocery stores on Sunday and buy enough for 3-4 meals. Yes it cost on average 50 more per week. But I always get left overs for lunch or dinner the next day and that 50 includes snacks and breakfast food and the quality of ingredients is 1000x better
I thought it would be harder too without HelloFresh but it’s easy and WAY better.
Hope someone for hellofresh see this. You guys fucking suck
The ‘weird whiteness’ is just fat.