TABLE 1.

Relevant terms related to beef

Term	Definition
Meat	The flesh of an animal as food
Processed meat	Meat that has been preserved by methods other than freezing, such as salting, smoking, marinating, air-drying, or heating (e.g., ham, bacon, sausages, hamburgers, salami, corned beef, and tinned meat)
Red meat	All types of mammalian muscle meat, such as beef, veal, pork, and lamb (fresh, minced, and frozen)
Beef	The flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food
Protein	Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of ≥1 long chains of amino acids and are an essential part of all living organisms, especially as structural components of body tissues such as muscle
Peptide	A compound consisting of ≥2 amino acids linked in a chain
Amino acid	A simple organic compound containing both a carboxyl (–COOH) and an amino (–NH2) group
Protein-derived bioactive compounds	Intermediates of proteolysis or amino acid sequences which exert a beneficial effect on body function and/or positively impact human health, beyond its known nutritional value