Human Nutrition
Pork Checkoff Research
Research is at the heart of the National Pork Board’s mission and is funded by your Pork Checkoff dollars. Research is administered in all areas of pork production, processing, and human nutrition to develop a higher quality and more profitable product in the competitive meat protein market.
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Pork Quality
Prediction of pork quality using online computer vision system
With the increasing demand of high quality of pork products from the global market the United States pork industry needs to seek new solutions for determining quality of pork products.
Pork Quality
National Pork Retail Benchmarking Study
The primary objective of this project was to benchmark fresh pork quality at the retail store level. A great deal of variation in pork quality exists in the retail marketplace, leaving consumers with...
Human Nutrition
Comparison of red meat versus high carbohydrate diet as a means of preventing tissue-specific down-regulation of insulin receptors
The effect of diet on physiological and chemical balance was assessed when mature, obese gilts were fed either a high fat ground beef (GB) or a high carbohydrate corn/soybean diet (CON). A pool of 21...
Pork Quality
National Pork Retail Benchmarking Study
The primary objective of this project was to benchmark fresh pork quality at the retail store level. A great deal of variation in pork quality exists in the retail marketplace, leaving consumers with...
Animal Well-being
Evaluation of a novel means to euthanize piglets
Electromagnetic (EM) energy transmitting devises that operate in the microwave frequency have been approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association for the specific use in euthanasia of...
Pork Quality
Stepwise discriminate and latent variable analysis of pre-harvest process factors influence on fresh pork quality
Pork producers have often been told that stressing pigs can not only have negative consequences on the pig’s welfare but also on the quality of pork that they generate. Removing pigs from their...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
