The USDA calls rabbit the most nutritious meat available.
Rabbit has more Protein than Pork, Beef, Chicken, Lamb, or Turkey. Rabbit has virtually no saturated fat compared to Pork, Beef, Chicken, Lamb, & Turkey.
As far back as 1962, the Bureau of Home Economics, a division of the USDA, through extensive testing stated that domestic rabbit meat is the most nutritious meat known to man.
Rabbit meat contains selenium, a mineral your body uses to make antioxidants. Each 3 oz portion of meat contains 46.8% of the recommended daily value of selenium. MedlinePlus reports that some physicians may recommend more selenium into your diet to combat hardening of the arteries, as well as cancers such as stomach, lung, prostate and skin cancer.
