Commercial samples of beef and turkey meat were prepared by commonly used cooking methods with standard cooking times: (1) broiled at 200°C for 10min, (2) broiled at a medium temperature (140°C) for 10min, (3) cooked by microwave (MW) for 3min and then grilled (MW/grill) for 7min, (4) cooked in a domestic microwave oven for 10min, and (5) boiled in water for 10min. The raw and cooked meats were...

Frankfurters are the most popular comminuted products in the US and account for the 25% of all sausages sold (NHDSC, 2006). Base on an average cooking loss (weight, %) of 2.64 (optimum chopping conditions), the estimated economic loss resulting from non optimum emulsion stability during the cooking process was estimated to range between 0.2 and 1.65 billion dollar per year (only in the US). A n...

1 Ivona Đurkin, BScAgr, Assistant; Goran Kušec, DSc, Associate Professor; Gordana Kralik, DSc, Full Professor; Antun Petričević, DSc, Prof. Emeritus; V. Margeta, MSc, Junior Assistant; Danica Hanžek, BSc Agr, Expert Consultant; Zlata Maltar, MSc, Expert Consultant. Faculty of Agriculture, University J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Department of Special Zootechnics, Trg Sv. Trojstva 3, 31 000 Osije...

Understanding the factors that contribute to the risk from fish consumption is an important public health concern because of potential adverse effects of radionuclides, organochlorines, other pesticides, and mercury. Risk from consumption is normally computed on the basis of contaminant levels in fish, meal frequency, and meal size, yet cooking practices may also affect risk. This study examine...

The histological characteristics, ie, myofibre types and cross-sectional areas (CSA), of pectoralis major and sartorius muscles of 20 male chickens from two lines (ten birds from each line) divergently selected for breast meat yield were compared. Moreover, some quality parameters (ie, drip loss, ultimate pH value and meat colour) of the breast muscle were recorded. The animals from both lines ...

Quality characteristics of frozen cylindrical pork loin were evaluated following different tempering methods: 27.12 MHz curved-electrode radio frequency (RF) at 1000 and 1500 W, and forced-air convection (FC) or water immersion (WI) at 4°C and 20°C. The developed RF tempering system with the newly designed curved-electrode achieved relatively uniform tempering compared to a parallel-plate RF sy...

The effect of Aspergillus xylanase (ASXYL) supplementation to maize-soybean diets on serum aspartate aminotransferase, serum alanine aminotransferase, microbial examination, growth traits, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits of broiler chickens was investigated. Three hundred one-day-old mixed sex “Cobb 500” broiler chicks were allotted to 5 dietary treatments with 5 replic...