Cooked meat. Coloured Scanning Electron Micro- graph (SEM) of a cut section through well-cooked meat. Meat is largely made up of muscle consisting of

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Cooked meat. Coloured Scanning Electron Micro- graph (SEM) of a cut section through well-cooked meat. Meat is largely made up of muscle consisting of striated muscle fibres. During the process of cooking, however, the muscle fibres are denatured (broken down) and here resemble a mesh of broken fibres. See photo H110/994 showing uncooked meat. Magnification; x1030 at size. Magnification; x2900 at inch size.

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Photo credit: © POWER AND SYRED/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: cooked, denaturation, food, foods, foodstuff, foodstuffs, meat, micro, protein