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Meat quality of vitamin E enriched beef.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Nassu, Renata Tieko Dugan, Michael E. R. Juárez, Manuel Basarab, John A. Baron, Vern S. Aalhus, Jennifer L. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | This study aimed to evaluate quality and sensory properties of 6 and 21 days aged beef (steaks and ground beef) from animals with different tissue levels of α-tocopherol. A total of 56 feedlot steers were fed a barley-based finisher diet with four vitamin E supplementation levels (340, 690, 1040 and 1740 IU dl-αtocopheryl acetate . animal -1. day -1 ) for 120 days. The animals were then grouped based on their α-tocopherol (μg . g meat -1 ) levels (<3 or low; 3 to 4 or low-medium; 4 to 5 or high-medium and >5 or high). Longissimus lumborum muscle and overlying subcutaneous fat were aged 6 days and then used to prepare steaks and 75/25 ground beef. Steaks aged for 21 days were also analysed. Although the increase in fatty acid oxidation over time was smaller (P<0.001) in the high-medium and high groups, tissue α-tocopherol levels did not affect (P>0.05) pH, proximate analysis, drip and cooking losses, and shear force of steaks. Similarly, α-tocopherol tissue levels had no effect (P>0.05) on sensory characteristics of 6 days aged steaks and ground beef. No effect of tissue α-tocopherol levels was found over the 6 days retail evaluation period for steaks, but with 21 days of ageing, a delay in formation of metmyoglobin (P=0.008) was observed with higher tissue levels of α-tocopherol. Similar results were found for ground beef (25% fat) prepared from 6 days aged meat. Higher α-tocopherol tissue levels protected ground beef ad long-aged steaks from discolouration and lipid oxidation. Keywords— α-tocopherol, steak, ground beef |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ainfo.cnptia.embrapa.br/digital/bitstream/item/46127/1/PROCI2011.00156.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |