Why Can't You Undercook Pork?
| Updated: 10 Feb 2026
How can you eat undercooked beef, but not chicken or pork?
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Why
Cameron, Leeds
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Name: Brian, Dulwich.
Answer: Pigs are omnivores and eat rodents. Rodents carry a parasite called trichinella, which the pigs cannot digest. Pork needs to be cooked thoroughly to kill the parasites.