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LFTB

LFTB is the initialism of lean finely textured beef.

Meaning of lean finely textured beef

Noun

lean finely textured beef (uncountable)

  1. (US, meat industry) A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective, spinal, and digestive tissues by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive.
    • Two such materials that have been available for only a relatively short period of time are lean finely textured beef (LFTB) and lean finely textured pork (LFTP). They are obtained by low-temperature recovery of protein from trimmed beef […]2001, Meat Science and Applications (Y. H. Hui, Wai-Kit Nip, Robert W. Rogers), page 455

Questions about LFTB

What is LFTB the initialism of?
LFTB is the initialism of lean finely textured beef.

Words near LFTB in the dictionary

  1. LFS
  2. LFSR
  3. LFSRs
  4. LFSs
  5. LFT
  6. LFTB
  7. LFTR
  8. LFTRs
  9. LFTs
  10. LFW
  11. lg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LFTB (page history and authors); lean finely textured beef (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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