Beef tongue

The Beef tongue is a strong, extremely mobile muscle covered with a mucous membrane and equipped with numerous sensory organs. Beef wrap their rough tongue around a tuft of grass then tear it off with a sweep of their head. cattle also taste with their tongues. And of course the organ plays a role in mooing, just as it is extremely important for us to speak.

The lean muscle meat of the tongue without mucous membrane, salivary glands and epiglottis is used as food. A whole beef tongue weighs up to 1.5 kilograms. The tongue is rarely served as a whole, but is mostly processed into sausages. In the past, it was considered a delicacy.