Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lean finely textured beef

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English

Syllables: lean fine-ly -tex-tured beef
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective, spinal, and digestive tissues by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive.

American usage; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Two such materials that have been available for only a relatively short period of time are lean finely textured beef (LFTB) and lean finely textured pork (LFTP). They are obtained by low-temperature recovery of protein from trimmed beef […]"
"In a related study, Van Laack et al. (1997) studied the residual color of patties prepared from normal or high pH beef and lean finely textured beef. Addition of lean finely textured beef to high pH beef resulted in a more well-done color […]"
"When specified by the purchaser, lean finely textured beef may be combined with boneless beef meeting the above material requirements […]"
"So now the world is aware that "lean finely textured beef" is actually an alias for "ammonia-soaked centrifuge-separated byproduct paste"."

Usage

American usage
Uncountable

Inflected Forms

LFTB (alternative) lean, finely textured beef (alternative)

Synonyms

pink slime soylent pink boneless lean beef trimmings

Questions

What does lean finely textured beef mean?: A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective, spinal, and digestive tissues by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive.

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