Red Meat: All livestock is considered red meat. This includes beef, pork, goat, and lamb. Poultry: Commonly referred to as white meat, poultry includes chicken and turkey. Seafood: That includes fish, as well as crustaceans, like crab and lobster, and molluscs, like clams, oysters, scallops, and mussels.
Processed meat products include bacon, ham, sausages, salami, corned beef, jerky, hot dogs, lunch meat, canned meat, chicken nuggets, and meat-based sauces. Meat processing includes all the processes that change fresh meat with the exception of simple mechanical processes such as cutting, grinding or mixing.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dairy refers to "all fluid milk products and foods made from milk." This includes milk, yogurt, cheese, ice cream, and butter. Eggs are not included. They belong in the meat, poultry, fish, and eggs category, and are considered animal products.
Ham, smoked pork, gammon, bacon and sausage are examples of preserved pork. Charcuterie is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products, many from pork. Pork is the most popular meat in the Western world, particularly in Central Europe.
Precooked-cooked meat products utilize the greatest variety of meat, animal by-product and non-meat ingredients. Typical products are liver pates, blood sausages and corned beef.
Meat production refers to the slaughter, in slaughterhouses and farms, of animals whose carcass is declared fit for human consumption. The definition applies to beef, pork, lamb and mutton.
Products from animals include meat and meat products, poultry products (meat and eggs), fish, shellfish, dairy products (milk and cheese), and non-food products such as fiber (wool, mohair, cashmere, and leather).
The end product of protein is actually new proteins, but in order to complete this process, protein must first be broken down into amino acids. After you eat protein, your stomach starts the digestive process when an enzyme called pepsin is released, mixing with stomach acid to begin breaking down the protein.
Meat and eggs are not the only important poultry products. A significant by-product is manure, which has robust economic value, whether sold or directly applied to crops by farmers. Down and feathers can also be sold.
There are eight beef quality grades: Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Cutter & Canner. There are eight beef quality grades. The grades are based on two main criteria: the degree of marbling (intramuscular fat) in the beef, and the maturity (estimated age of the animal at slaughter).
