ATR-MIR	attenuated total reflection mid-infrared
CAL	calibration
cfu	colony-forming units
CV	cross validation
DFD	dark, firm and dry
FA	fatty acid
GC	gas chromatography
IL	inner layer
IMF	intramuscular fat
LD	m. longissimus dorsi
LDA	linear discriminant analysis
LIF	laser induced fluorescence
LOO-CV	leave-one-out cross validation
LV	latent variable
MLR	multiple linear regression
NIRS	near-infrared spectroscopy
NMR	nuclear magnetic resonance
NRMSEC	normalized root mean square error of calibration
NRMSECV	normalized root mean square error of cross validation
NRMSEP	normalized root mean square error of prediction
OL	outer layer
PC	principal component
PCA	principal component analysis
PFN	pale, firm and non-exudative
PLS-DA	partial least squares discriminant analysis
PLS-R	partial least squares regression
PSE	pale, soft and exudative
RFN	reddish, firm and non-exudative
RMSEC	root mean square error of calibration
RMSECV	root mean square error of cross validation
RMSEP	root mean square error of prediction
RSE	reddish, soft and exudative
SM	m. semimembranosus
SVM-C	support vector machine classification
TVC	total viable count
VAL	validation
Vis	visible
VOCs	volatile organic compounds
WHC	water-holding capacity
WSBF	Warner-Bratzler shear force