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A Method of Estimating the Percentage of Protein and Fat in the Edible Portion of Steer Carcasses¹

Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, Corvallis

Abstract

Summmary: A core sampling technique for estimating the fat and protein content of steer carcasses is described. The method is reasonably quick and easy to apply and causes very little damage to the carcass. The multiple correlation coefficients (R₂) between the weight of fat in two side probes and warm carcass weight with percentage of fat and percentage of protein in the 9–10–11th rib cuts were 0.781 and 0.735, respectively. These associations are of sufficient magnitude to make them useful in studying the composition of large numbers of steer carcasses.

Equations are derived for predicting the fat and protein content of the edible portion of the 9–10–11th rib cut. These equations have been combined with those of Hankins and Howe (1946) so that the equations thus derived predict the fat and protein content of the edible portion of steer carcasses.

¹ Technical Paper No.1332. Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station.

² Department of Dairy and Animal Husbandry.