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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Meat | The edible portions of mammals |
| Variety meats | Edible part of the animals other than the muscles |
| Beef | Comes from mature cattle |
| Wholesale cut | Beef side are cut into quarters and then into large pieces |
| Retail cut | Meat cutters divide the wholesale cuts into still smaller pieces |
| Veal | Meat that comes from young calves |
| Pork | Meat from hogs |
| Lamb | Meat from sheep less than one year old |
| Marbling | A factor used to access quality, refers to flecks of fat throughout the lean muscles of meat |
| Elastin | Is very tough and elastic, and it cannot be softened by cooking |
| Collagen | Is strong and flexible, a type of connective tissue that can be tenderized by cooking |
| Cooking losses | Fat, water, and other volatile substances that evaporate from the surface of meat during cooking |
| Tofu | And alternative to meat, is a mild-flavored custard-like cake made from soybean |
| Tempeh | An alternative to meat, is a fermented soybean product |
| Seitan | (Wheat meat) alternative to meat, it is made of wheat gluten and has a chewy texture similar to meat |