pink slime; lean finely textured beef; LFTB
A food industry term for a processed beef product made from trimmings, often used as a filler in ground beef. The term 'pink slime' is a colloquial, somewhat pejorative name.
In the US, pink slime is sometimes used as an ingredient in hamburgers.
Pink slime is made from lean beef trimmings.
Loanword from English 'pink slime', a term coined in the early 2000s for a processed beef product.