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MUSCLE MEAT [20 records]

Record 1 2023-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bioengineering
  • Meats and Meat Industries
CONT

The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan on Monday, with food tasters declaring it tasted "close to meat." Grown in vitro from cattle stem cells at a cost of 250,000 euros ($332,000), the burger was cooked and eaten in front of television cameras to gain the greatest media coverage for the culmination of a five-year science experiment. Resembling a standard circular-shaped red meat patty, it was created by knitting together 20,000 strands of laboratory-grown protein, combined with other ingredients normally used in burgers, such as salt, breadcrumbs and egg powder. Red beet juice and saffron were added to give it color.

OBS

The first laboratory-produced meat patty(cultured beef burger) presented in London on August 5, 2013, by Dr. Mark Post, a physiologist from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, was dubbed the "Frankenburger. "The professor and his colleagues produced the meat-like substance by cultivating muscle tissue from cow stem cells in fetal serum and other growth-promoting materials(vitamines, amino acids, growth hormones, sugar, etc.). The laboratory-grown meat at this stage of development is prohibitively expensive, but might one day become a substitute for "real" meat. The product needs to be enhanced to improve its texture, taste and appearance. Some scientists predict that cultured meat might be commercially available within a decade. Others say that it will be possible to grow it in one's own kitchen within 20 years.

OBS

The development of meat substitutes is praised on ethical grounds by animal rights or welfare activists since these products have the potential to greatly reduce the inhumane raising and slaughtering of animals raised for meat. Environmentalists, economists and scientists support these products since they might one day be a cost-effective means of meeting world demands for meat, while greatly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and waste, as well as the use of water, farmland and animal feed that make intensive animal farming unsustainable. On the other hand, natural food advocates have serious doubts concerning ingredients needed to grow and enhance these products, and the long term safety of their consumption; and meat industry proponents argue that the technology still requires stem cell donors (the cells from a single donor cannot replicate indefinitely) and that the product remains a far cry from "real" meat. Only time will tell if these products will, in a perhaps not so distant future, entirely replace, or only supplement, the meat industry.

OBS

cultured beef hamburger: A "hamburger" is a minced beef patty. Terms such as "cultured beef hamburger" could therefore be considered pleonastic. The term "burger" is the shortened form of "hamburger." While burgers are traditionally made of beef, non-beef burgers have become popular, and modifiers such as "veggie," "tuna," "chicken," "nut," and "soya" are used to describe them. Given this relatively new reality, the use of seemingly pleonastic terms such as "cultured beef burger" may be justified.

OBS

The combination of terms such as "hamburger," "cultured," "laboratory," "in vitro" and their short forms to create neologisms designating this product yields an impressive number of synonyms. This will remain the case as long as terminology used to describe this relatively new concept is not well established.

OBS

synthetic hamburger; artificial hamburger: The terms "synthetic meat" and "artificial meat" designate products that imitate meat but that are not necessarily laboratory-grown from animal cells. Hence, the use of qualifiers such as "synthetic" and "artificial" might lead to confuse a cultured hamburger with, for example, a soy-based burger.

OBS

Terms such as "Frankenburger" that do not include the modifier "beef" might very well be used some day to designate similar laboratory-grown products made from animal cells other than beef.

Key term(s)
  • lab-grown beef burger
  • lab-grown hamburger
  • lab-grown beefburger
  • lab-grown burger
  • laboratory-grown burger
  • laboratory-grown beefburger
  • cultured hamburger
  • cultured beefburger
  • cultured burger
  • cultured beef hamburger
  • in vitro beefburger
  • in vitro burger
  • in vitro hamburger
  • test-tube beefburger
  • test-tube burger
  • test-tube hamburger
  • stem cell hamburger
  • stem cell burger
  • stem cell beefburger
  • cruelty-free burger
  • cruelty-free beefburger
  • cruelty-free beef burger

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technique biologique
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
CONT

Cet hamburger synthétique, surnommé le «Frankenburger», a été élaboré dans le laboratoire de l'université de Maastricht en trois mois à [partir] de cellules souches de bœuf. En septembre 2011, un expert en physiologie de cette université, Mark Post, avait annoncé son projet de développer avec son équipe une viande de synthèse. [...] Les 20 000 fibres de muscles ont été cultivées en laboratoire, pressées ensemble, colorées avec du jus de betterave et assaisonnées de safran afin de donner une couleur rouge au «Frankenburger» qui aurait eu un aspect naturel gris sans ces modifications.

OBS

Il s'agit du premier hamburger créé en laboratoire et présenté à Londres le 5 août 2013 pour dégustation. Ce steak haché de viande synthétique a été confectionné à partir de cellules souches de vache cultivées dans un milieu contenant des acides aminées, des vitamines, du sérum fœtal et des hormones de croissance. On y a ajouté de la chapelure, du sel, de la poudre d'œuf ainsi que du jus de betterave et du safran pour la couleur. Certains scientifiques disent que ce type de produit pourrait être cultivé à la maison d'ici vingt ans. C'est une solution envisageable pour diminuer les émissions de gaz à effet de serre attribuables aux animaux d'élevage tout en répondant à la demande mondiale en viande bovine qui risque de doubler d'ici 2050.

OBS

steak in vitro; steak cultivé en laboratoire à partir de cellules souches; steak de viande artificielle : Ce nouveau produit ayant davantage l'apparence et la consistance de viande hachée que de bifteck, ces termes sont employés pour évoquer l'idée de «steak haché» tel que lorsqu'on parle de «steak tartare».

OBS

La terminologie n'est pas bien établie pour désigner ce concept, comme en témoigne le nombre de termes utilisés. La combinaison de termes tels que burger, hamburger, steak, cellules souches, cultivé, laboratoire et in vitro, se décline à l'infini, et on compte, parmi les synonymes utilisés, de nombreuses locutions plus ou moins longues.

OBS

steak de viande artificielle; hamburger synthétique; hamburger artificiel : Étant donné l'emploi des termes «viande synthétique» et «viande artificielle» pour désigner des produits imitant la viande qui ne sont pas nécessairement cultivés en laboratoire à partir de cellules animales, il y a, sans contexte, risque de confusion avec des imitations à base de soja, par exemple.

OBS

burger de cellules souches : Le produit est fabriqué à partir de cellules souches, mais le produit fini est constitué de cellules de muscles plutôt que de cellules souches. (Les cellules souches se transforment en myocytes ou cellules musculaires qui forment des fibres musculaires.)

Key term(s)
  • burger créé in vitro
  • hamburger créé in vitro
  • hamburger de cellules souches
  • hambourgeois in vitro
  • hambourgeois cultivé en laboratoire
  • hambourgeois éprouvette
  • hambourgeois de cellules souches
  • steak cultivé en laboratoire
  • steak de cellules souches
  • burger artificiel
  • burger synthétique

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Record 2 2022-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Two regulations have been used to control the size of landed scallops. First vessels [that] shuck scallops at sea and land scallop meats are subject to [restrictions of] a maximum average meat count or number of meats per pound(MPP)... The current management standards are 30 MPP... A meat is defined as the retained part of the scallop adductor muscle...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
  • Pêche commerciale

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Record 3 2019-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
CONT

Fresh or quick frozen roe-on scallop meat are prepared by completely removing the adductor muscle and attached roe from the shell and detaching all other viscera to the extent practical. The roe should remain attached to the adductor muscle. Roe-on scallop meat contains no added water, phosphates, or other ingredients. The adductor muscle and roe are presented whole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO

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Record 4 2018-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fatty Substances (Food)
CONT

The meat is technically cooked at 160 degrees but would be tough and full of unrendered fat. A long slow cook is needed to melt that fat and break down the collegan holding the muscle fibers together.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Corps gras (Ind. de l'aliment.)
CONT

Lors de la cuisson des aliments, n'utilisez du beurre que pour les œufs et les légumes. Le gras naturel des viandes les empêchera de coller.

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Record 5 2018-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
OBS

Salami : A type of dry sausage made from raw muscle meat of pork, beef, veal, chicken, or turkey, that is ground up and mixed with fat... The raw meat is not cooked but instead is cured to make it safe for eating. As it is processed, garlic, pepper, hot chiles, and other seasonings are added before being cured, air-dried, and tightly packed into a natural or synthetic membrane casing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie

Spanish

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Record 6 2018-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
CONT

Chuck Short Ribs contain ribs 2 through to 5 of the cow in the area where the Chuck on top meets the Brisket below(after rib 5, the Rib area proper begins). The ribs have meat between the bones and muscle on top of the bones. Usually, the fat on top of the muscle will be trimmed off. The strip of ribs will usually be cut for sale between the ribs into rectangular pieces two to three inches long(5 to 7. 5 cm), with a two inch(or so) tall(5 cm) piece of rib in each

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
CONT

Bœuf - Diagramme des coupes de viande [...] HAUT-DE-CÔTES : une partie alternative du bloc d'épaule. Il est séparé du collier et de l'épaule [...] et de la palette par une coupe franche passant sur le bord supérieur du corps de la septième (7ième) vertèbre cervicale et à travers le centre de l'omoplate (scapula) et des côtes croisées par une coupe franche passant sous (ventral) la pointe antérieure de l'omoplate (scapula) et à proximité de l'articulation de l'épaule. NOTA : La palette et les côtes croisées qui résultent de l'enlèvement du haut-de-côtes sont des portions alternatives du bloc d'épaule.

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Record 7 2008-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
CONT

Meat tenderness is influenced by either the contractile state of the muscle(tough if the fibres have shortened) or by the amount of cross-linking in the collagen(tough if cross-linking is excessive, as in some older animals)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
DEF

Aptitude d'une viande à être tranchée [...], cisaillée [...] et broyée [...]

CONT

[...] les propriétés de la viande (que les consommateurs) sont eux-mêmes en mesure de pouvoir apprécier comme par exemple la tendreté, la succulence, la saveur, la couleur [...].

OBS

La tendreté étant très appréciée par le consommateur, diverses techniques sont appliquées pour l'améliorer : attendrissement mécanique, maturation en atmosphère contrôlée, emploi d'additifs ou d'enzymes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria cárnica, de fiambres y embutidos
DEF

Dificultad o facilidad con la que una carne se puede cortar o masticar.

CONT

[...] los métodos de determinación [...] de apreciación objetiva [...] intentan predecir un valor de terneza en forma cuantitativa. El método objetivo mundialmente más usado es la Cizalla Warner-Bratzler, que consiste en un método directo, mediante el cual una cizalla mide la fuerza de corte en libras o en kg, es decir la resistencia de la carne a ser cortada, brindando un dato objetivo (a mayor valor de fuerza de corte, menor terneza).

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Record 8 2008-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
CONT

How to shuck an oyster? This method of oyster shucking is often used by restaurants for presentation purposes. Hold the oyster cup side down, flat side up, with the hinged or narrow end in your hand. Insert the knife about 1/3 back from the wide end of the oyster. Go in using the knife and cut the muscle. Be careful to keep your fingers out of the path of the knife. Detach the muscle from the bottom shell. Carefully roll the meat over, taking care to neatly detach the muscle underneath.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
OBS

Écaillage : [...] 3. Action d'ouvrir (des huîtres).

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Freezing and Refrigerating
  • Animal Biology
  • Meats and Meat Industries
DEF

A marked contraction of the muscles occurring in meat which has been removed from the bone pre-rigor, frozen and then thawed.

CONT

The carcass is chilled immediately after slaughter to prevent spoilage. If the carcass is chilled too rapidly, the result is "cold shortening" and subsequent toughness. Cold shortening occurs when the muscle is chilled to less than 60°F before the completion of rigor mortis. If the carcass is frozen before completion of rigor mortis, the result is "thaw rigor" and subsequently extremely tough meat.

Key term(s)
  • thaw rigor contracture

French

Domaine(s)
  • Congélation, surgélation et réfrigération
  • Biologie animale
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
DEF

Forte contraction musculaire apparaissant, à la décongélation, dans la viande qui a été désossée à l'état pré-rigor avant d'être congelée.

CONT

La congélation de la viande avant l'établissement de la rigidité cadavérique n'est pas souhaitable. Elle risque de conduire à un « choc de décongélation », qui se traduit par une contracture de décongélation et un durcissement.

OBS

[Le muscle] perd son élasticité après l'abattage, pour se rigidifier progressivement jusqu'à un stade de raidissement maximal appelé rigidité cadavérique ou rigor mortis, atteint environ 24 heures post mortem. Ce raidissement provient de l'arrêt progressif de la consommation de glycogène par le muscle, quelques heures après la mort : en l'absence d'oxygène (arrêt de la circulation sanguine), l'utilisation du glycogène perd de son efficacité et devient insuffisante pour répondre aux besoins de contraction et de relaxation du muscle. D'où une perte des propriétés élastiques de celui-ci et sa rigidification progressive.

OBS

rigor de décongélation : Équivalent proposé par un spécialiste d'un laboratoire de microbiologie alimentaire du Québec.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Congelación y refrigeración
  • Biología animal
  • Industria cárnica, de fiambres y embutidos
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Record 10 2007-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
DEF

The edible flesh of any of various crabs.

OBS

The colour is usually white except for red pigmented muscle meat from legs and chelae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
OBS

La chair des crabes est fine et délicate. [...] On trouve dans le commerce des conserves de crabe au naturel (miettes ou morceaux de chair).

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Record 11 2006-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Poultry Production
  • Food Industries
CONT

Roasters are generally older birds with more muscle, flavor and fat. The fat is favorable for roasting because it adds flavor and moisture to the meat as it is cooking and will eventually melt off through the cooking process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des volailles
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
CONT

Le poulet à rôtir. Sa chair est moins tendre que le poulet à frire. On l'utilise plutôt pour les plats en sauce et pour faire des sandwichs.

OBS

Le poulet frais [...] On le trouve en deux catégories soit le poulet à rôtir ou gros poulet et le poulet à frire.

Spanish

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Record 12 2006-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Food Preservation and Canning
CONT

Results indicated that a major quantity of volatile compounds detected in the processed meat were derived from the smoking process. Color variations were mainly explained by muscle pigment modification due to the cooking process, and by the input of volatile compounds of smoke.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
  • Conservation des aliments et conserverie
CONT

En ce qui concerne la mesure directe des propriétés aromatisantes d'un composé volatil, il est possible, au moyen de l'analyse sensorielle, de définir plusieurs propriétés qui peuvent se classer en trois groupes : sa qualité odorante ou caractère, c'est-à-dire, le type d'odeur que ce composé volatil dégage et le degré de préference [...]

OBS

L'adjectif «volatile», avec un «e», est à éviter dans ce sens. Il signifie «Qui peut voler, qui a des ailes», ou encore «formé d'oiseaux»!

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Record 13 2004-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
CONT

Around the corner, another team of employees prepares 9-lb. cook-in-bag turkey breasts. Using a mechanical filler, ground and whole muscle breast meat are blended and transferred to a vacuum packaging machine.

CONT

The convenient cook-in-bag packaging ensures juicy, tender meat that slices just right.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

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Record 14 2004-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Pig Raising
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The main purpose for investigating postmortem metabolism of muscle is to help explain and control things such as PSE that have a practical, commercial importance in the meat trade. Watery pork that appears unusually pale and which has a high fluid loss when cut and presented for sale has been around for a long time, with the first scientific reports dating back to the early 1900s. In the scientific literature the condition is most commonly called PSE, standing for pale, soft, and exudative pork... PSE pork that was avoided in the fresh state by a customer because of its unattractive appearance is just as likely to be rejected by a meat processor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Élevage des porcs
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Source(s) : Agriculture, mai 1995.

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Record 15 2003-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Crop Protection
  • Biochemistry
CONT

Enhanced well productivity potential from a new high-density reservoir drilling fluid. ... The new fluid system ... derives its viscosity solely from an interaction between a specially modified starch (DFS) and an inorganic magnesium compound (HRMgO) [= highly reactive magnesium oxide].

CONT

Dietary Mg [magnesium] supplementation using inorganic Mg sources such as MgSO4 and MgCl2 have... been shown to improve meat quality. Studies comparing the influence of organic and inorganic magnesium compounds on meat quality indicate that the improvements in muscle colour, drip loss, and the reductions in the incidence of PSE [pale, soft and exudative pork] were greater with organic magnesium compounds such as magnesium aspartate and magnesium Bioplex.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Protection des végétaux
  • Biochimie

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
Key term(s)
  • muscle meats

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
OBS

Source(s) : Agriculture, mai 1995.

Key term(s)
  • viandes musculaires

Spanish

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Record 17 1997-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
OBS

Source(s) : Agriculture, mai 1995.

Key term(s)
  • viande musculaire rouge

Spanish

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Record 18 1991-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
CONT

Lean meat is composed of long, thin muscle fibers bound together in bundles. These determine the texture or grain of a piece of meat.

Key term(s)
  • muscle fibre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
CONT

Viande [...] La consistance propre des fibres musculaires est responsable de la fermeté et de la tenue de la viande.

Spanish

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Record 19 1987-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
CONT

Both products are whole muscle products containing only white turkey meat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

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Record 20 1984-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Refrigeration Engineering
OBS

(meat) prerigor meat subjected to rapid chilling can be cold shucked leading to pronounced shortening of the muscle tissues, the cold shocking often results, in a very considerable toughening of the meat processing toughness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques du froid
OBS

(De la viande) la dureté due à la transformation est causée par le choc frigorifique qui provoque un raccourcissement frigorifique des fibres musculaires Sc. et techn. du froid ann 1970-1973, p. 131, TA.

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