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Pork belly quality variation and its association with fatness level.
Meat science - 1 Jul 2024
Albano-Gaglio M, Zomeño C, Tejeda J F, Brun A, Gispert M, Marcos B, Font-I-Furnols M
Abstract excerpt
Belly is a very popular pork cut composed of different layers of fat and muscle tissue. This work aims to investigate the effect of belly fatness on the morphological, mechanical (firmness) and compositional characteristics of fresh pork bellies and the distribution of the fat within the belly slice. A total of 182 bellies, selected to ensure variability of fatness, sexes and genotypes, were scanned by computed...
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