WHITE MEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white meat mean? 

• WHITE MEAT (noun)
  The noun WHITE MEAT has 1 sense:

1. meat carved from the breast of a fowl

  Familiarity information: WHITE MEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE MEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat carved from the breast of a fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

breast; white meat

Hypernyms ("white meat" is a kind of...):

helping; portion; serving (an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal)

Holonyms ("white meat" is a part of...):

chicken; poulet; volaille (the flesh of a chicken used for food)

turkey (flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted)

 Context examples 

After one month, researchers found that, on average, blood levels of TMAO in these participants tripled, compared to when they were on the diets high in either white meat or non-meat protein sources.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Dairy products, eggs and white meat were very expensive in most low-income and lower middle–income countries, while most fruit and vegetables were relatively expensive in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

When the subjects discontinued their red meat diet and moved to either a white meat or non-meat diet for another month, their TMAO levels decreased significantly.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

For the study, researchers enrolled 113 healthy men and women in a clinical trial to examine the effects of dietary protein—in the form of red meat, white meat, or non-meat sources—on TMAO production.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Scientists found that people who eat a diet rich in red meat have triple the TMAO levels of those who eat a diet rich in either white meat or mostly plant-based proteins, but discontinuation of red meat eventually lowers those TMAO levels.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)