Animal Science, Department of
Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports
Date of this Version
January 2001
Abstract
The fiber type composition of 38 muscles of the beef chuck and round was studied to facilitate optimal muscle use in value-added products. Select grade chucks and rounds (n=4 each) were used. Muscles containing greater than 40% &#;-red fiber numbers were classified as red; greater than 40%&#;&#;&#;-white were classified as white. All others were classified as intermediate. Nine of 12 round muscles were white, while chuck muscles were equally dispersed between red (10 of 26), intermediate (9 of 26), and white (7 of 26), indicating variation among muscles of the chuck, which may create differences in processing characteristics.
Comments
Published in Nebraska Beef Cattle Report 2001, published by Agricultural Research Division, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, and Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.