Is Pink A Food. Coli which means it may have a little color in the middle. Pink slime also known as lean finely textured beef or LFTB finely textured beef boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT or pink goop is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats as a filler or to reduce the overall fat content of ground beef.
Some people assume that there are red-colored berries responsible for this oddity. Who knows how this will turn out. This is sometimes true but usually not -- and thats certainly not how it was originally invented.
Food and Drug Administration lists ammonia as generally recognized as safe in the quantities used in pink slime.
There are bacteria that grow even if you store the foods in the refrigerator. Today is no ordinary day because on this one were pitting black against pink and pink against black. Numerous callers to the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline report being alarmed when seeing pink. Think Pink This October.
