Effect of Pre-Slaughter Practises and Early Post-Mortem Interventions on Sheep Meat Tenderness and Its Impact on Microbial Status [PDF]
Tenderness, together with flavour, is the main quality trait that defines consumer acceptance of sheep meat. The factors affecting tenderness can be grouped as those influenced before slaughter, in the early post-mortem intervention and, finally, during ...
Carlos Álvarez +3 more
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Meat Tenderness: Underlying Mechanisms, Instrumental Measurement, and Sensory Assessment [PDF]
Meat tenderness is a quality trait critical to consumer acceptance and determines satisfaction, repeat purchase, and willingness to pay premium prices. The aim of this review was to explore instrumental and sensory methods for assessing meat tenderness ...
Frank Dunshea +7 more
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Preliminary Results about Lamb Meat Tenderness Based on the Study of Novel Isoforms and Alternative Splicing Regulation Pathways Using Iso-seq, RNA-seq and CTCF ChIP-seq Data [PDF]
Tenderness is an important indicator of meat quality. Novel isoforms associated with meat tenderness and the role of the CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) in regulating alternative splicing to produce isoforms in sheep are largely unknown.
Zehu Yuan +6 more
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Differences in global gene expression in muscle tissue of Nellore cattle with divergent meat tenderness [PDF]
Background Meat tenderness is the consumer’s most preferred sensory attribute. This trait is affected by a number of factors, including genotype, age, animal sex, and pre- and post-slaughter management. In view of the high percentage of Zebu genes in the
Larissa Fernanda Simielli Fonseca +6 more
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Exploring how papaya juice improves meat tenderness and digestive characteristics in Wenchang chickens [PDF]
Wenchang chicken meat, used as the primary ingredient, was combined with papaya juice in different proportions for pickling and stewing. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of papain in papaya juice on the tenderness, structure and ...
Zihan Zhang +3 more
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Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Calpastatin (CAST) and Micro-Calpain (CAPN1) Genes Influencing Meat Tenderness in Crossbred Beef Cattle in Thailand [PDF]
This study investigated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the CAPN1 316, CAPN1 4751, and CAST 2959 markers using high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis to predict meat tenderness in crossbred beef cattle.
Thanathip Thaloengsakdadech +4 more
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DNA Amplification of Meat Tenderness Gene of Bali Cattle
The aim of this study was to know DNA band pattern as a result of amplification using DNA primer from meat tenderness gene of Bali cattle. Sample used in this study was DNA isolated from blood Bali cattle.
Agus Susilo +3 more
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Co-Regulation of Very Fast Chilling Treatment and the Follow-Up Storage Temperature on Meat Tenderness Through Glycolysis. [PDF]
The effects of storage temperature (4 °C, −1 °C, and −4 °C) after the very fast chilling (VFC) treatment on the glycolysis in lamb were investigated. The meat tenderness, glycolytic rates, activity, phosphorylation, and acetylation levels of glycolytic ...
Bai Y +5 more
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Ruminant meat tenderness. I. Overview of factors affecting meat tenderness. Review
The aim of the present article was to make an overview of tenderness of meat from large and small ruminants and to outline some factors that affect it. At present, the tenderness of meat is one of its most important quality traits.
Nikolay Ivanov
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Psychophysical investigations into the tenderness of meat
Tenderness of five veal meat cuts was determined by two groups of subjects: a panel of skilled butchers and a consumers' panel. The butchers estimated tenderness with and without assistance of visual information.
Broekhuijsen, M. L., Van Willigen, J. D.
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