Meat
Tripe
Tripe is stomach lining—blanket, honeycomb, book, and reed types from different chambers—sold cleaned (and often bleached) for long simmering. Mexican menudo, French tripes à la mode de Caen, Italian trippa, and Asian hotpots all turn the rubbery raw texture into silky, sauce-carrying ribbons. Honeycomb is especially valued for how sauce catches in its pattern. It is prized in traditional cuisines for texture and for thrift, not for steak-like flavour. Buy well-cleaned tripe; simmer until tender (often hours), then finish in a highly seasoned sauce. Undercooked tripe squeaks; properly cooked tripe is soft without dissolving.
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Nutrition
Typical values per 100 g edible portion. Nutrient names open the reference page.
Nutrition Facts
Per 100 g edible portion
Amount per 100 g
- Total Fat 12 g
- Saturated Fat 4.72 g
- Trans Fat 0.2 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 5.25 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 1.01 g
- Cholesterol 70.2 mg
- Sodium 57.5 mg
- Salt 0.15 g
- Total Carbohydrate 0 g
- Dietary Fibre 0 g
- Total Sugars 0 g
- Complex / starch 0 g
- Protein 22.4 g
- Water 60.5 g
- Energy 190 kcal
- Water 60.5 g
- Protein 22.4 g
- Fat 12 g
- Saturated Fat 4.72 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 5.25 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 1.01 g
- Omega-3 0.1 g
- Trans Fat 0.2 g
- Vitamins 38.1 mg
- Vitamin A 15 µg
- Vitamin B1 — Thiamine 0.09 mg
- Vitamin B2 — Riboflavin 0.21 mg
- Vitamin B3 — Niacin 5.82 mg
- Vitamin B5 — Pantothenic Acid 0.63 mg
- Vitamin B6 0.42 mg
- Vitamin B7 — Biotin 2.6 µg
- Vitamin B9 — Folate 8.1 µg
- Vitamin B12 — Cobalamin 1.2 µg
- Vitamin C 2 mg
- Vitamin D 0.2 µg
- Vitamin E 0.3 mg
- Vitamin K 1.5 µg
- Minerals 403 mg
- Major Minerals 401 mg
- Trace Minerals 1.5 mg
- Iron 1.5 mg
- Salt 0.15 g
- Cholesterol 70.2 mg
Vitamins
vitamin-c: 2 · vitamin-b12-cobalamin: 1.2 · vitamin-a: 15 · vitamin-b1-thiamine: 0.09 · vitamin-b2-riboflavin: 0.21 · vitamin-b3-niacin: 5.82 · vitamin-b5-pantothenic-acid: 0.63 · vitamin-b6: 0.42 · vitamin-b7-biotin: 2.6 · vitamin-b9-folate: 8.1 · vitamin-d: 0.2 · vitamin-e: 0.3 · vitamin-k: 1.5 ·
Minerals
Tripe of Beef: composition reflects this culinary part relative to the whole ingredient.
History
Urban poor and thrifty cooks across Europe and Asia made tripe a daily protein from slaughter by-products.
Regional French tripe dishes became codified local specialities.
Menudo established tripe soup as a restorative Mexican classic.