Dry-aged beef requires 7 to 14 days or longer to age properly. Wet-aged beef can mature in as few as 7 days. Meat is muscle, and muscle is composed of protein structures that break down with the aging process.
White Americans are the racial majority. African Americans are the largest racial minority, amounting to 13.2% of the population. Hispanic and Latino Americans amount to 17% of the population, making up the largest ethnic minority.
In 2005, Hawaii, with a minority population of 976,000 (appendix table A-1a), had the highest percentage of minorities of any one state (77 percent), due to its large Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander populations (41 and 8 percent, respectively), and Hispanic population (8 percent).