Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

canales aptas

English translation:

suitable carcasses

Added to glossary by Poughkeepsie
Aug 5, 2019 11:08
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Spanish term

canales aptas

Spanish to English Social Sciences Cooking / Culinary Iberico pig terminology
The sentence is as follows:

Los datos de la montanera 2018-2019 muestran que se han sacrificado 669.480 cerdos, de ellos, 654.388 fueron canales aptas, lo que supone un 9,7 % menos de animales de bellota que en la campaña anterior, según las cifras que maneja Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico (ASICI).

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Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 suitable carcasses

Proposed translations

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Spanish term (edited): canales aptas
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suitable carcasses

See record 1 here: https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?l...

And here:
"Also, castrates tended to show a greater proportion of final suitable carcasses for Teruel ham (P < 0.10) than females because more barrows than gilts fulfilled the minimum requirement of carcass weight and fat thickness in the gluteus medius (GM) muscle (P < 0.01)."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18441085

Many other examples online.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2019-08-05 21:28:41 GMT)
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"Suitable" meaning "suitable for human consumption" obvs
Peer comment(s):

agree Toni Castano : Correct, female gender when it is referred to "reses abiertas en canal" (la res).
3 hrs
Indeed. Thanks, Toni.
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