pink slime

Also known as finely textured beef, lean finely textured beef, boneless lean beef trimmings, FTB, LFTB, BLBT

meat product made by heating beef trimmings to 42 ℃, centrifuging away melted fat, freezing the remainder to −9 ℃ in a roller press, and exposing it to ammonia or citric acid to disinfect; used as a filler to ground beef in the US; banned in the EU