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The loin is located on both sides of the backbone starting at the shoulder and continuing back to the hind leg.

The primal cut of an animal that contains the most tender and the leanest sub-primal and market ready cuts.

A reference that can apply to several different cuts of pork used for roasting, referred to as: the loin roast, shoulder roast, butt roast, blade loin roast, pork tenderloin, sirloin roast, crown roast or rolled ham roast.

A term customarily applied to the meat of a pig that is under a year old. The pig carcass is generally split into two sides of pork; each consisting of four primal cuts known as the shoulder, loin, leg/ham, and side/belly.