RMC Quizbowl

What is the minimum recommended cooking temperature (degrees F) for the fresh whole muscle pork?

145

What are the three forms of water in meat?

Bound, immbolized, and free

What does ICoMST stand for?

International Congress of Meat Science and Technology

What term described beef that has been harvested rabbinical supervision?

Kosher

What is the vertebrae of the loin that are located between the last rib and the hip bone called?

Lumbar

What animal products contribute about 1/6th of all protein consumed by humans?

Red Meat and Poultry

Who is the AMSA Youth Programs Manager?

Leslie Frenzel

What are the fat soluble vitamins?

A, D, E, K

What organs comprise the central nervous system?

Brain and spinal cord

What state is the top producer of cattle?

Texas

What fast food franchise has the slogan "Always fresh, never frozen?"

Wendy's

Callipyge is a Greek word meaning what?

Beautiful Buttocks

What is the most commonly used commercial method for freezing meat products?

Blast freezing

What is the common name of a fatty acid with 18 carbons and 1 double bond? It represents 25-35% total fatty acids in meat

Oleic Acid

What foodborne illness can occur as a result of the consumption of canned, smoked, or cured meat and seafood products and is controlled through the use of nitrites?

Clostridium Botulinum

What does the abbreviation ADP stand for?

Adenosine Diphosphate

This type of cholesterol has been referred to as "b cholesterol".

LDL or vLDL

Which major United States trading country imposes import tariff of 25% in 2018, which included beef, soybeans, and many other agriculture related products?

China

Ingredients in meat products are listed package label what order?

Descending order of concentration in product

What major red meat livestock species has the highest myoglobin content?

Beef

What is the scientific name of the blade bone?

Scapula

Name two methods used to preserve meat.

Freezing, thermal processing, dehydration or irradiation

Burger kind is now including this plant based option for its popular Whopper Burger

Impossible Burger

What is the term for a perimeter animals have that if crossed, will cause the animal to react in some way?

Flight zone

What are two main uses for Growth promotion

Increases feed efficiency and aids in muscle growth

What carcass tissue component accrues at the grea rate near the end of the finishing period?

Fat/adipose

What is the main ingredient of traditional "Foie Gras"?

Goose/Duck Liver

Known as the national mammal of the United States what is the correct name for the American Buffalo?

Bison

The sacrolemma of an individual muscle fiber is surrounded by what?

Endomyosin

What edible byproduct is the most nutrient dense?

Liver

Named the four adipose tissue depots

Internal, subcutaneous, intermuscular, intramuscular

What is the meat from aquatic creatures commonly known as?

Seafood

As of 2019, what is the most widely consumed meat in the world?

Pork

What is the approximate internal temp (degree F) of a steak cooked to a well done degree of doneness?

170

Holding carcasses or meat at refrigeration temperature periods after initial chilling is called

Aging

What is the purpose of an autoclave

sterilization

How do you calculate the net meat consumption of a country

Production plus imports minus exports

What is the common name for the lean quality defect that results from capillary rupture during too long stun-stick interval?

Blood splash, ecomosis

Fermentation causes pH of foods to

Decrease

What muscle type represents the bulk of carcass weight of meat animals?

Skeletal Muscle (35-65%)

Nitric oxide binds to myoglobin in raw meat to form what?

Nitrosomyoglobin/ Nitric Oxide Myoglobin (note: nitrosohemocrhome is the pigment heat is also added).

What is a group of muscle fibers joined together?

Muscle bundle, muscle fascicle

What does the abbreviation RSE stand for in meat quality?

Red, soft, exudative

What two carbon chain configurations around a double bond exist with regard to fatty acids?

Cis or trans

What is the flesh of goats called

Chevon

Since 2009, this system receives 40 cents for every 100 dollars at market rate of the value of all pork products manufactured in the United States or imported in the country.

Pork Checkoff

Ingredient lists in processed meats fall under whose inspection?

FSIS

What does the Greek prefix "myo" mean?

Muscle

What blood vessels are cut during exsanguination

Jugular vein and carotid artery

What are composed of three fatty acids attached to a glycerol backbone?

Triglycerides

Who are the authors of the principles of meat science fourth edition?

Aberie, Forrest, Gerrard, Mills

What are the red meats?

Beef, Lamb, Pork, Goat, and Veal

Meat from domesticated birds

poultry

meat from aquatic creatures

Seafood

Animal tissues suitable for use as food

Meat

Meat provides virtually all of this B-Vitamin consumed

B12

What two factors influence a countries meat consumption?

Livestock availability and economic resources

What proportion of US agriculture resources are devoted to meat production?

more than 60%

This country is by far the largest consumer of beef

Argentina

The country is the largest consumer of pork

Denmark

This country is the largest consumer of lamb

New Zealand

This country is the largest consumer of poultry

Israel

What city did Carl Sandburg immortalize as the "hog butcher of the world?"

Chicago

What are the three primary components of a carcass?

Muscle, fat, bone

Where in terms of total receipts does the meat industry rank within US Food Production?

First

Removal of the blood, viscera, head, hair, and skin results in what product

Carcass

This type of muscle is present around blood vessels

Smooth muscle

What two types of muscle are involuntary

Cardiac and smooth

What is cell of the skeletal muscle called

muscle fiber

This membrane, immediately below the endomysium, surrounds the muscle fiber

Sarcolemma

Organs of the muscular system attached directly or indirectly to bones via ligaments, fascia, cartilage, or skin

Skeletal muscles

What percent of the muscle is made up of muscle fibers

75-92%

invaginations of the sarcolemma

T tubules

Motor nerves terminate on the sarcolemma at this point

Myoneural junction

The cytoplasm of a muscle cell

Sarcoplasm

Muscle cells are multinecleated, how far are the nuclei spaced on the muscle fiber?

5 micrometers

Structures present at the myonerural junction that from a raised mound on the surface of the muscle fiber

Motor end plate

This constituent makes up the greatest portion of the cytoplasm

Water (75-85%)

This organelle is unique to skeletal muscle tissue or cells

Myofibrils

This bisects the I-band

Z Disc or Z line

This portion of the myosin contains the myosin head

Heavy meromyosin

What are the three classifications of myofibrillar protein

Contractile, Regulatory, Cytoskeletal

What is the average length of a sarcomere

2.5 micrometers

Near the Z-disc, each actin filament connects to four of these proteins

Z-filaments

This is the area of no myosin heads in the center of the A-Band

H-Zone

Myomesin, M-Protein, and Skelemin are all cytoskeletal proteins found where in the sarcomere?

M-Line, they all stabilize the red portion of the myosin

Dystrophin, Talin, and Vinculin are all components of what body laying just beneath the sarcolemma

Costamere

This is a perforated sheet like area of the SR found in overlaying the H-band

Fenestrated Collar

Where are the alpha-actin and Cap-Z found in the sarcomere?

Z-disc

Where specifically with in the SR is calcium stored?

Cisternae

This portion of the SR lays on either side of the T-Tubule

Terminal cisternae

Where in relation to the sarcomere does the T-tubule run?

Directly over the A-I band junction

The body contains a group of enzymes capable of digesting the cell and its contents

Lysosome

This body forms tight membrane to membrane junctions in smooth muscle allowing for communication

Sarcolemma

A T-tubule and the two adjacent terminal cisternae

Triad

These are the enzymes contained within the lysosome

Cathespins

True or False. Smooth muscle fibers are multinucleated.

False

True or False. Cardiac Muscle is multinucleated

False

Cardiac muscle carries out this type of metabolism primarily

Oxidative

What group of animals is epithelial tissue normally left on during harvest

Poultry