Ever wonder why your butcher has that knowing smile when you ask about certain cuts? It's hard to say for sure, but there's a ...

With intense marbling, deep umami, and new certification measures, American Wagyu is giving diners a fresh way to enjoy ...

A rancher breaks down the real differences between Prime and Choice beef, helping you choose better cuts and cook with ...

The Mangalica’s curly coat requires a specific management style on the farm. While these pigs were built for the cold, “hardy” doesn’t mean indestructible. For a successful winter, you’ll need to ...

Walmart offers a surprisingly affordable grass-fed, grass-finished ground beef option, and it happens to come in the ideal 80 ...

Adiposity phenotypes, including VAT and muscle adipose tissue infiltration, are linked to adverse cardiovascular aging in both sexes. Men exhibit higher VAT and android fat, while women have more ...

Consider the delicate web of fat in a Wagyu steak. The "marbling" that makes carnivore connoisseurs swoon is a visual heuristic for quality flavor. Now, a new study suggests the very same marbling of ...

Indroduction: Accumulation of intramuscular fat (IMF) is an important marker of skeletal muscle health, typically reported as the mean intramuscular fat fraction (FF) from quantitative magnetic ...

Higher thigh intramuscular fat infiltration may increase the risks for knee and hip osteoarthritis, regardless of BMI or sex. Thigh intramuscular fat infiltration (IMFI) may significantly increase the ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...

This study comprehensively presents data from single nuclei sequencing of Heigai pig skeletal muscle in response to conjugated linoleic acid supplementation. The authors identify changes in myofiber ...