Beer-marinated steak healthier barbecue option

From the Courier Mail:

THERE'S now another reason why beer and a barbie go together so well: using the beverage as a marinade makes your red meat much healthier.

New Scientist magazine reports a simple marinade of beer or red wine dramatically reduces a fried or barbecued steak's cancer-causing properties.

It's long been established the high temperatures of a barbecue, frying or grilling morph the sugars and amino acids in meat's muscle tissue into a compound called heterocyclic amines, which can cause cancer.

Isabel Ferreira, of the University of Porto in Portugal, marinated steak in beer or red wine for six hours and it cut the levels of two types of HA by 90 per cent.

Beer was more effective than red wine in reducing a third type of HA.

The test steaks weren't wasted, ending up on the plate, and tasters preferred the taste, smell and appearance of the steak marinaded in beer more than red wine, New Scientist reports.

You could have used a better beer Warney!!