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Pork Checkoff Research

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Human Nutrition
An analysis of pork intake, its association with diet, and modeling its nutritional impact on the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Analysis of intake of pork, its association with diet and health markers using NHANES 2001-2018, and modeling the nutritional impact of removing/adding servings to the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended healthy dietary patterns.

Human Nutrition
Investigating the Role of Pork Consumption on Cognition and Brain Health through Innovation in Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience

Lean pork consumption is linked with functional efficiency within the visual and ventral attentional networks of the brain, as well as favorable brain age, motivating the design of randomized controlled trials to establish the role of lean pork consumption in cognitive performance and brain health.

Human Nutrition
The place of fresh pork in the 2021 USDA Thrifty Food Plan:

A quadratic programming optimization of dietary guidance, nutrient density, and cost.

Human Nutrition
Influence of Lean, Unprocessed, Pork on Human Gut Microbiome

Influence of lean, unprocessed, pork on human gut microbiome and microbiome mediated production of trimethylamine-N-oxide: implications for cardiometabolic wellbeing.

Pork Quality
Increasing the Value of Heavy-Weight Pork Carcasses

Increasing the value of heavy weight pork carcasses by modifying current shoulder fabrication specifications.

Pork Quality
Increasing the value of heavy weight pork carcasses by evaluating belly and ham characteristics

Determining effects of increasing carcass size on ham and belly processing and quality characteristics.

Animal Well-being
Animal caretakers perspectives on performing euthanasia on commercial sow farms
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparative pathogenesis of different porcine rotavirus C (RVC) genotypes and correlation between maternal immune status and RVC diarrhea prevalence in suckling piglets
Human Nutrition
Nutrient Profile Analysis of Pork and Alternative Protein Sources
Human Nutrition
Does Meal-based Enhancement of Protein Intake Augment Long-term Responses to Sarcopenic Obesity Reduction?
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