Excel's Special Trim Beef Tongue includes the full blade muscle back to the heel area. The tongue is trimmed virtually free of fat. The loose hanging lean left over from the removal of the gullet is trimmed even with the base of the heel. The hyoid bone is removed and any yellow, fatty cartilage found at the natural v area of the blade is also removed. A white tongue is that which has no black spots or other such pigmentation on any portion of the blade.