Meat
Poultry
Eggs
Grading
Misc.
100

How most beef is sold today.

What is boxed beef?

100

A type of food product produced by alive chickens.

What are eggs?

100

Category of egg from a hen who were fed ingredients that were grown without pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizer. 

What is organic?

100
The highest quality grade for meat.

What is the prime grade?

100

The act of holding beef in a refrigerator for a period of time.

What is aging?

200

Meat products used to make cosmetics, glue, gelatins, tallow, variety meats, and bonemeal.

What is a by-product?

200

A muscle that is usually discolored on poultry.

What is the breast muscle?

200

Largest size of egg.

What is jumbo?

200

Highest quality grade of eggs.

What is AA?

200

Term for removal of the internal organs.

What is evisceration?

300

An ingredient that makes up 70% of the general composition of meat.

What is water?

300

An inspection on poultry animals while they’re still alive.

What is an antemortem inspection?

300

Another name for the whites of an egg.

What is albumen?

300

The branch of the USDA that grades poultry with their Poultry Program’s Grading Branch.

What is the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)?

300

The contraction and stiffening of muscles immediately after slaughter.

What is rigor mortis?

400

The hooves, hide, and intestines of meat are called this.

What is offal?

400

A macromolecule poultry is low in.

What is fat?

400

33% of the liquid weight of the egg comes from this.

What is the yolk?

400

A major factor in the quality grade of meat.

What is age?

400

The primary color pigment in meat.

What is myoglobin?

500

Dry sausages may or may not be characterized by this method of processing.

What is bacterial fermentation?

500

29% of poultry carcasses in the US are downgraded in the quality grade due to this form of discoloration.

What is bruising?

500

Name for ropey strands of egg whites that hold the yolk in place.

What is the chalazae?

500

The type of grade used for grading pork.

What is the yield grade?

500

Vegetable enzymes that tenderize meat by dissolving or degrading connective tissues. (3 answers)

What is papain, bromelin, and ficin?