The impact of selecting for lean meat yield using breeding values for increased eye muscle depth (PEMD) and decreased fat depth (PFAT) on the consumer acceptance of lamb meat was evaluated. Consumer sensory scores (tenderness, juiciness, flavour, odour, overall liking) were obtained for the longissimus lumborum (loin) and semimembranosus (topside) muscles of 1471 lambs. On average loin samples ...

Marination is the process of soaking meat in marinade to increase retention, improve flavour, fatness, juiceness, and water hold capacity, decrease cooking loss, extend tenderness. In marinating, lime that contained citric acid help break down proteins so became more tender. This study aims determine effect marinating various concentrations juice (Citrus aurantifolia) on physical properties (pH...

The identification of meat quality characteristics from selected breeds grazing in specific regions is particularly relevant to achieve a marketing advantage. Longisimus thoracis at lumborum (LTL) from the indigenous Western Balkan (WB) sheep VlašićkaPramenka (VP) sheep and lambs, and Pivska Pramenka (PP) sheep grazing in Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) and Montenegro (MN), respectively, was compare...

The potassium inwardly rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 11 (KCNJ11) gene was investigated as a candidate for meat tenderness based on the effects reported on muscle for KCNJ11 gene knockout in rat models and its position in a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for meat tenderness in the bovine genome. Sequence variations in the KCNJ11 gene were described by sequencing six amplified fragments...

Meat quality is the generic term used to describe the properties and perceptions of meat which are generally considered to be colour, flavour, texture, tenderness and juiciness (Maltin et al., 2003), with tenderness considered as one of the most important traits (Miller et al., 2001). Meat tenderisation occurs primarily from the weakening of the myofibrillar structure in muscle fibres via the a...

Introduction Overall quality of meat is determined by a combination of many factors including intramuscular fat, marbling, water absorption and pH. These factors also influence the quality of meat such as tenderness, juiciness and flavor at the time of eating (palatability) (AMSA, 2001). Marbling, which is defined as the intramuscular fat intermingled with lean within a muscle, has great influe...

Improving the traits that underlie meat quality is a major challenge in the beef industry. The objective of this paper was to detect QTL linked to sensory meat quality traits in 3 French beef cattle breeds. We genotyped 1,059, 1,219, and 947 young bulls and their sires belonging to the Charolais, Limousin, and Blonde d'Aquitaine breeds, respectively, using the Illumina BovineSNP50 BeadChip (Ill...

Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) have been identified at the bovine calpastatin locus. The objective of the present study was to determine whether these polymorphisms are related to variations in calpastatin activity or beef tenderness in unrelated animals of mixed breeding. A sample of 83 crossbred steers from sires representing eight different breeds was examined to determine ...

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The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of immersion marination with citric acid, calcium chloride and combined mixture of citric acid and calcium chloride solutions on Semimembranosus meat quality traits. Meat cuts obtained from culled cows were marinated with 0.05 M citric acid, 0.2 M calcium chloride or the combined mixture of these two compounds for 24 hr. Nonmarinated me...