MEAT PRODUCTION 



TABLE 107. AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF. A SIDE OF BEEF OF 

 MEDIUM FATNESS 



425 



Lean cuts of meat, however, may contain much less fat than 

 is indicated by the foregoing statement. Thus Grindley and 

 Emmett 1 analyzed seven samples of beef round from which the 

 visible fat had been removed. The minimum figure for fat was 

 3.19 per cent in the fresh substance, or 12.29 per cent of the 

 dry matter. The average of the seven analyses was as fol- 

 lows : 



TABLE 108. AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF SEVEN SAMPLES OF BEEF ROUND 

 WITH VISIBLE. FAT REMOVED 



Voit found in the carefully prepared lean meat which he 

 used as representing substantially protein feed, and which had 

 been most painstakingly freed from all visible fat, 0.91 per cent 

 of ether extract in the fresh substance, equal to 3.77 per cent of 

 the dry matter. 



The term meat commonly suggests to the mind the muscular 

 tissue of the animal, and has become almost synonymous with 

 1 Ills. Expt. Sta., Bui. 162. 



