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MENUDENCIA [2 records]

Record 1 2012-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
OBS

offal: With reference to meat the term includes all parts that are cut away when the carcass is dressed including liver, kidney, brain, spleen, pancreas, thymus, tripe, and tongue. In the USA the term used is "organ meats" or "variety meat."

OBS

offal: Term used at the Canadian Pork Council.

OBS

The pork cuts illustrated and described in the Canadian Pork Buyer's Manual represent the industry's basic standard for the primal cuts in the Canadian pork industry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
OBS

abats de porc : terme en usage au Conseil canadien du porc.

Spanish

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

menudencia de cerdo; víscera de cerdo; víscera de porcino: Términos utilizados generalmente en plural.

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Record 2 2009-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
  • Slaughterhouses
DEF

An edible viscus of a butchered animal.

CONT

Meat product ... Meat Inspection Regulations - means edible blood, an edible organ or edible tissue that was derived from the carcass of a food animal, but does not include meat or mechanically separated meat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
  • Abattoirs
CONT

Produit de viande [...] Règlement sur l'inspection des viandes - Sang, organe ou tissu comestibles de la carcasse d'un animal pour alimentation humaine, à l'exclusion de la viande et de la viande séparée mécaniquement.

Spanish

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

Las vísceras comestibles, a las que también se les denomina menudencias, son principalmente lengua, riñón, hígado, corazón, rabo, mondongo.

CONT

Menudencias. Son así llamados hígado, riñones, mondongo, lengua, corazón, sesos y todo lo que es achuras, como molleja, chinchulines, tripa gorda.

CONT

[...] principales recetas de la comida criolla. Achuras - Son los menudos de res: mollejas, riñones, chinchulines, tripa gorda [...]

OBS

víscera comestible; menudencia; achura: No confundir con despojo, que es un término genérico que abarca otras partes además de los órganos internos, como las patas.

OBS

achura: Se denomina así, particularmente en Argentina, a las vísceras comestibles que se destinan al asado a la parrilla.

OBS

víscera comestible; menudencia; achura: Términos utilizados generalmente en plural.

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