Method for the contactless determination of features of meat quality

A method for contact-free analysis of fat/meat quality of a meat product, comprising the steps of:

• radiating the meat product with a scanning light source which creates a moving point of light on the meat product;
• detecting continuous radiation emanating from the moving point of light on the test object and periodically converting a detected continuous radiation into definite radiation values corresponding to the point of light at scanned locations on the test object;
• providing reference values which are known radiation values corresponding to fat and meat portions of a reference meat product;
• comparing the reference values to the definite radiation values to create a first group of the definite values corresponding to fat portions and a second group of the definite values corresponding to meat portions of the meat product;
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• comparing the two groups of values to determine fat/meat quality.