Comparative studies of meat III. Rates of fattening in relation to the percentage of muscular and fatty tissue in a carcass
- 1 October 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Agricultural Science
- Vol. 39 (4), 347-358
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021859600004627
Abstract
1. It has been shown in a previous paper (Callow, 1948) that, with ‘standard’ carcasses of cattle, sheep and pigs containing more than 18 % of fatty tissue, FT/C, there is a close correlation between FT/C and MT/C, the percentage of muscular tissue. This is shown by the linear regression equationMT/C = 76·1 — 0·684FT/C ± 1·0 (r= — 0·9782).The reasons for this close correlation and the effects of varying rates of fattening on the constants of the generalized equationMT/C = a — bFT/Chave been deduced by a mathematical and biological analysis of the data.Keywords
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