RMC Quiz Bowl 2025

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

145

What doe ICoMST stand for?

International Congress of Meat Science and Technology

What term describes beef that has been harvested by rabbinical supervision?

Kosher

What are the three forms of water in meat?

Bound, immobilized, and free

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

Lumbar

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

Red meat and poultry

What organs comprise the central nervous system?

Brain and spinal cord

Who is the AMSA Youth Programs Manager?

Leslie Frenzel

What state is the top producer of cattle?

Texas

What are the fat soluble vitamins?

A, D, E, K

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

Wendys

Callipyge is a Greek word meaning what?

Beautiful buttocks

What food born 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 nitrates?

Clostridium botulinum

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

Blast freezing

What does the abbreviation ADP stand for?

Adenosine diphosphate

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

Oleic acid

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

LDL or vLDL

This major United States trading country imposed an import tariff of 25% in 2018, which included beed, soybeans, and many other agriculture related products?

China

What is the scientific name of the blade bone?

Scapula

Ingredients in meat products are listed on package labels in what order?

Descending order of concentration in product

Name two methods used to preserve meat.

Freezing, thermal processing, dehydration or irradiation

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

Beef

Burger King is now including this plant-based option for its popular Whopper burger.

Impossible burger

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

Flight zone

What are the two main uses for growth promotants?

Increase feed efficiency and aids in muscle growth

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

Fat/adipose

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

Triglycerides

Known as the national mammal of the US, what is the correct name for the American Buffalo?

Bison

Name the four adipose tissue deposits.

Intermuscular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, internal

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

Endomysium

What is meat from aquatic creatures commonly known as?

Seafood

What edible byproduct is the most nutrient dense?

Liver

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

Pork

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

170

How do you calculate the net meat consumption of a country?

Production plus imports minus exports

Holding carcasses of meat at refrigeration temperature for extended periods after initial chilling is called

Aging

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

Blood splash, ecomosis

What is the purpose of an autoclave?

Sterilization

Fermentation causes tha pH of foods ____

decrease

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

Skeletal muscle

What does the abbreviation RSE stand for in meat quality?

Red, soft, and exudative

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

Nitrosomyoglobin

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

Cis or trans

What is a group of muscle fibers joined together?

Muscle bundle

What is the flesh of goats called?

Chevon

What does the Greek prefix "mayo" mean?

Muscle

Ingredient lists in processed meats fall under whose inspection?

FSIS

What blood vessels are cut during exanguanation?

Jugular vein and carotid artery

What term describes a lipid-hydrolyzing enzyme?

Lipase

What temperature range (degrees F) is considered the danger zone regarding the microbial safety of meat?

40-140

What does the acronym CFU represent?

Colony forming unit

Name the following fatty acid: C16:0

Palmitic

What does Hunter or Minolta a* measurement describe?

Redness/greeness

What USDA agency is responsible for ensuring the US commercial supply of meat, poultry, or egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly packaged?

FSIS

What is the name of the electrical current is generated in the sarcolemma to initiate contraction?

Action potential

What are single level display cases commonly called?

Coffin cases

What process subjects meat products to agitation and helps disrupt tissue structure and hasten distribution of cure ingredients?

Tumbling or massaging or mixing

What vertebrae are found in the neck of the animal?

Cervical

What are the two greatest chemical components of muscle?

Water and protein

What is the most abundant myofibrillar protein?

Myosin

What muscle is voluntary, striated, and multinucleated?

Skeletal

What are a step by step instructions that tell you to perform a job?

SOP

Carboxymyoglobin is a very stable red color because the heme iron in myoglobin has a greater affinity for _______ than oxygen.

Carbon dioxide

What is the name of the device that is most commonly used to incapacitate cattle in the US?

Captive-bold gun/stunner

What term us used to describe the reaction to an ingredient that causes an immune response in people when consumed?

Allergy, allergic reaction, anaphylatic

Name two primary sources of routes of microorganisms to fresh meats with particular emphasis on red meats?

Stick knife, animal hide, GI tract, hands of handlers, containers, lymph nodes

What common variety meat contains beef caudal vertebrae?

Oxtail

The negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration is commonly to referred to as what?

pH

What is the common term for molecules that have an affinity for water?

Hyrophillic

What type of fatty acids are susceptible to lipid oxidation?

Unsaturated fatty adids

What fast food company had an E. coli O15H7 outbreak in 1993 that led to wide-spread media coverage?

Jack in the Box

What are the 4 stages of bacterial growth?

lag phase, log phase, stationary phase, death phase

What is lanolin?

Oil from wool

What is the common name for a retort pouch that unsealed or lost container integrity in some way, sometimes resulting in contents seeping out of the package?

Leaker

Meat, poultry, and fish contain this type of iron, which is more readily absorbed that iron from plant-based foods.

Heme

In the HACCP plan for a frankfurter, the franks are cooked to 160F. What type of hazard is controlled with this critical control point?

Biological

What type of amino acids cannot be made within the body and must be supplied by food?

Essential amino acid

Executives of what international meat company stepped down from their posts in 2017 amid regulations of bribery of government inspectors over tainted meat?

JBS South America (JBSSA)

What are all of the quality grade designations applied to steer and heifer carcasses?

Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Utility, Cutter, Canner

What kind of bacteria ferment carbohydrates and produce lactic acid lowering the pH of meat?

Lactic acid bacteria

Between beef, pork, lamb, and chicken, which has the highest percentage of polyunsaturated fats?

Chicken

What does URMIS stand for?

Uniform Retail Meat Identity Standards

What is the first step in the harvest inspection process?

Antemortem inspection

What is a yield grade attempting to predict in a beef carcass?

Perfect of BCTRC from the round, chuck, rib, loin

What is the most abundant fatty acid in the animal body?

Oleic

How many whole sale cuts does veal have?

6

What is the most common natural source of nitrate in processed meat?

Celery juice powder

What parasitic infection is caused by the consumption of insufficiently cooked pork?

Trichinosis

In terms of growth, what system has priority for bone and muscle development?

Brain or nervous system

What is the most common method of disposal of condemned meat in the industry?

Tanking

What color fat do grass fed cattle produce?

Yellow

Growth promoting hormones are not approved for in what red meat species?

Pigs

Name 2 filler meats.

Ox lips, tripe, pork stomachs, skin, snouts, livers

This step is the slaughter process of pigs immediately follows scaulding and dehairing.

Sing (torching)

What causes the high tensile strength and insolubility of collagen fibers?

Cross-linking

What are the two largest restaurant chains in the world?

Subway and McDonalds

In what phase of microbial growth are organisms growing exponentially?

Log phase

These structures "connect" adjacent cardiac muscle cells.

Intercalated disc

The US and EU have had decades long disputes regarding US beef. The use of what substance has led to this dispute?

Beef from cattle treated with hormones

Name the following fatty acid: C14:0

Myristic