Table 1. Marbling characteristics, including marbling score, intramuscular fat (IMF) content, and marbling fleck characteristics, of Hanwoo longissimus thoracis muscle

	Mean	Standard deviation	Minimum	Maximum
Marbling score	5.28	1.81	2.00	9.00
IMF content (%)	14.8	5.03	5.69	29.3
Marbling fleck characteristics
Fleck number	2,762	740.7	474.0	4,209
Marbling area (cm2)	24.4	6.40	13.7	48.1
Marbling area ratio (%)	24.5	5.13	16.4	40.8
Coarseness (C)	0.13	0.05	0.03	0.25
Fineness (F)	2.26	0.60	1.10	4.08
F/C ratio	20.2	12.0	5.62	60.7