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• Red meats usually lose their red color when cooked. Description of the color and appearance of meat is influenced by many factors, including the source of lights used to view samples. In conjunction with a large inter-agency study on the prevalence of premature browning of hamburgers, ARS scientists at Russell Research Center evaluated the influence of lighting source on the interpretation of color of cooked ground beef patties.

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