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woody breast

woody breast noun: a condition of farmed chickens causing their breast meat to become tough and chewy.

Noun

woody breast (uncountable)

  1. A condition of farmed chickens causing their breast meat to become tough and chewy.
    • Results suggest that severe degrees of white striping and woody breast, individually or in combination, negatively impact meat quality, especially water holding capacity attributes such as marinade uptake and cook loss.2016 April 14, Tijare VV, “Meat quality of broiler breast fillets with white striping and woody breast muscle myopathies”, in Poultry Science
    • White Striping (WS) is a condition characterized by the occurrence of white striations parallel to muscle fibers on breast, thigh, and tender muscles of broilers, while Woody Breast (WB) imparts tougher consistency to raw breast fillets.2016 November 1, VA Kuttappan, “White striping and woody breast myopathies in the modern poultry industry: a review”, in Poultry Science, volume 95, number 11, page 2724

Questions about woody breast

What does woody breast mean?
Woody breast means a condition of farmed chickens causing their breast meat to become tough and chewy.
What part of speech is woody breast?
Woody breast is a noun.

Words near woody breast in the dictionary

  1. woodwose
  2. woodwoses
  3. woodwright
  4. woodwrights
  5. woody
  6. woody breast
  7. Woody Creek
  8. Woody Head
  9. Woody Island
  10. woody nightshade
  11. woody nightshades

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