Question: what is the difference between lean and medium ground beef?
Answer: Extra-lean ground meat has no more than 10 per cent fat (e.g. 90-per-cent lean). ... Lean ground beef has a maximum of 17 per cent fat, medium ground beef has no more than 23 per cent fat and regular ground beef contains, at most, 30 per cent fat. Ground beef is processed from a variety of beef cuts.