meat Flashcards
older the meat, more collagen, means
tougher meat
tougher meat must be cooked with
slow moist heat
what is fat within muscles
marbling
what helps contain moisture content of cut of meat and not removed in slaughter house
cover fat
when meat is cut, purplish-red myoglobin is exposed to o2 and becomes bright-red oxymyoglobin and indicates
freshness, desireable
brownish red meat is less desirable because it was exposed to
bacteria or less o2
what is meat frozen before rigor mortis. which shrinks violently by almost 50%
thaw rigor
what is stiffening of musles
rigor mortis
what is less severe form of thaw rigor
cold shortening
what is current in mainly pork but can affect beef, lamb and poultry which is characterized by pH dropping very low
pale, soft, exudative (PSE)
what is characterized by a high pH from a stressed animal that causes a dark meat with dry sticky texture
dark - cutting meat (DFD)
more myoglobin in muscle with create a
darker meat
poultry is graded by
A,B,C voluntary
beef is mandatory graded by
prime choice select
vertebrate-invertebrate
saltwater-freshwater
lean-fat
are classifications of fish