Salmon steaks cook at a festival marking the annual return of the salmon, when the fish travel from the ocean to freshwater streams for spawning season. For the tribes of the Pacific Northwest, seafood plays a spiritual and cultural role in addition to being a dietary staple.

Carcass and Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBSF) data from strip loin steaks were obtained from 7,179 progeny of Angus, Brahman, Brangus, Charolais, Gelbvieh, Hereford, Limousin, Maine-Anjou, Red Angus, Salers, Shorthorn, Simbrah, Simmental, and South Devon sires. Trained sensory panel (TSP) evaluations were obtained on 2,320 steaks sampled from contemporary groups of progeny from one to five sir...

Effects of explosively-generated hydrodynamic shock wave treatments on the microbial flora of beef steaks and ground beef, and Listeria innocua T.A. Lorca , J.R. Claus , J.D. Eifert , J.E. Marcy a , and S.S. Sumner a a Department of Food Science and Technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA 24060. b Meat Science & Muscle Biology Laboratory, ...

Beef flavor has been identified as a driver of consumer acceptability; however, little is known about variability in major United States retail beef cuts. Four cuts (chuck roast; top sirloin steaks; loin and 80/20 ground beef) were obtained from stores (n=30 per cut city) Miami, Los Angeles, Portland, New York, Denver during 2-mo period 2018. Production systems or package claims documented. An ...

Bos taurus indicus temperament is variable and affects beef tenderization. Our objective was to investigate performance of non–castrated Nellore identify groups based on Longissimus lumborum (LL) pH decline as well characteristics produced by those groups. We investigated 94 animals with a subset carcasses (n = 24) selected LL at 24 h postmortem (pm) represent two groups: resistant (> 5.8 calle...

This research compared off-flavor notes and the relationship of pH and heme-iron content to off-flavor for different beef muscles. After grading, knuckles and shoulder clods were removed from 16 USDA Choice and 14 USDA Select beef carcasses, vacuum-packaged, and aged for 7 d. The rectus femoris (REC), vastus medalis (VAM), vastus lateralis (VAL), teres major (TER), infraspinatus (INF), and tric...