gutbread

plural gutbreads · alternative gut-bread · alternative gut bread

1. The pancreas, especially the pancreas of livestock used as food.

   Gerrard discloses that the pancreas is sometimes substituted for sweetbread and is referred to as gutbread in English slaughter houses.

   1967, Araneta Journal of Agriculture, volumes 14–15, Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines: Araneta Institute of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 181

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   Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away."

   1909, The Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 29, London: J. Churchill, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 819

   (3) The throat bread (thyroid gland) (4) The heart bread (thymus gland) Biggr } These form a "set" of sweetbreads. (5) The gut bread (pancreas)

   1928, Thomas Barlow Wood; Leslie Frank Newman, Beef Production in Great Britain, Liverpool: R. Silcock & Sons, OCLC 504869788, page 27

   The feeding of raw pancreas has been advocated and claimed to be effective but the difficulty of ensuring a regular supply of fresh gutbreads, quite apart from doubts as to the effect of gastric digestion, makes this treatment of dubious value.

   1965, Joan O[live] Joshua, “Pancreas, Liver, Spleen, Peritoneal Cavity”, in The Clinical Aspects of Some Diseases of Cats, London: William Heinemann Medical Books, →OCLC, page 84

   The brownish-yellow lobulated pancreas is called ‘gut bread’ or ‘stomach sweetbread’ and weighs approximately 170 g in market-weight beef animals and 85 g in sheep and pigs.

   2004, H[erbert] W. Ockerman, L. Basu, “By-products”, in Werner K. Jensen, Carrick Devine, Michael Dikeman, editors, Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences, volumes I (A–F), Oxford: Elsevier Academic Press, →ISBN

   The summarized data from various states show that in the most contaminated regions the incidence rate of gut-bread cancer rose ten times during 1991–1994 if compared with the period of 1986–1990 (Radiation level..., 2000, par. 258, p. 52).

   2006, Marina Bänke, transl., edited by A[leksei Vladimirovich] Yablokov, R. Braun, and U[te] Watermann, Chernobyl 20 Years After: Myth and Truth, 2nd edition, Münster: Agenda Verlag, →ISBN, page 72

   Synonyms: pancreas, belly sweetbread, heart sweetbread, stomach sweetbread, sweetbread