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Siddiqui, S.A.;  Gerini, F.;  Ikram, A.;  Saeed, F.;  Feng, X.;  Chen, Y. Rabbit Meat Production. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/41071 (accessed on 29 July 2024).
Siddiqui SA,  Gerini F,  Ikram A,  Saeed F,  Feng X,  Chen Y. Rabbit Meat Production. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/41071. Accessed July 29, 2024.
Siddiqui, Shahida Anusha, Francesca Gerini, Ali Ikram, Farhan Saeed, Xi Feng, Yanping Chen. "Rabbit Meat Production" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/41071 (accessed July 29, 2024).
Siddiqui, S.A.,  Gerini, F.,  Ikram, A.,  Saeed, F.,  Feng, X., & Chen, Y. (2023, February 10). Rabbit Meat Production. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/41071
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Rabbit meat could play an important role in health, the rural economy, and sustainable development. Rabbit meat has excellent nutritional features, such as high protein content, low-fat content, and a high percentage of unsaturated fatty acids, low cholesterol and sodium levels. In addition, rabbit meat production contributes to maintaining economic activities in rural marginal areas.

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1. Introduction

Meat and meat products can be termed functional, but they also have adverse nutrients, such as high calories, high saturated fat content, and cholesterol, which are associated with obesity, hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease [1]. These nutrients can be reduced by carefully selecting the meat fraction consumed, regulating productive factors, feeding, and modifying the carcass postmortem [2][3].
Since the primary early civilizations in the Mediterranean basin, rabbit-based food dishes have been regularly produced and consumed. Rabbit is simple to grow and eco-friendly on farms and in backyards. In terms of rabbit production, there are significant variances between countries [4][5]. Asia accounted for 70.5 percent of global rabbit meat production quantity in 2020, followed by Europe (Table 1). According to estimated values retrieved from FAOSTAT, in the period 2010–2020, global rabbit meat production decreased by 24.1% [6]. However, different trends occurred among continents. A great reduction in rabbit meat production was observed in Europe (−41.2%), while increases occurred in Africa (+23.5%). China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are the top two producers [6]. According to data retrieved from FAOSTAT [6], rabbit meat production in China has progressively decreased from 690,000 tons in 2010 to 456,552 tons in 2020 (−33.8%), while in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, rabbit meat production recorded an increase from 133,900 to 142,769 tons (+6.6%) [6]. A range of innovative rabbit meat alternatives are available in the market, including smoked, canned, frozen, cured, sauce-picked, dried, and roasted products as well as rabbit meat sausages.
Table 1. Rabbit meat production in quantity and heads.
Rabbit meats have high protein content, low fat content, a high percentage of unsaturated fatty acids, and low cholesterol and sodium levels [7]. Rabbit meat has relatively higher energy values (899 kJ/100 g in the forelegs and 603 kJ/100 g in the loin), which is equivalent to that of many types of red meat typically consumed [8]. This is because of its high protein contents, which provide 80% of the total energy of the human diet [9]. Therefore, rabbit meat is highly recommended for pregnant women, adolescents, and aged people [10]. The nutritional composition of the two major parts of the rabbit meat has been shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Nutritional composition of different parts of rabbit meat.

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