Blade Tenderization Effects on Cooking and Palatability Characteristics of Steaks from Bullock and Cow Carcasses

1979 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 563-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. SMITH ◽  
S. C. SEIDEMAN ◽  
Z. L. CARPENTER

Steaks (n = 240) from bullock and cow carcasses were studied to determine effects of blade tenderization on cooking and palatability characteristics. After two control (0×) steaks were removed, strip loins, inside rounds, outside rounds and top sirloin butts (all boneless) were blade-tenderized; additional steaks were removed after one (1×) and two (2×) passes through a blade tenderizer. Evaluations included cooking time, cooking loss, visual degree of doneness, Warner-Bratzler shear force and sensory panel evaluation for tenderness, amount of organoleptically detectable connective tissue, flavor, juiciness and overall palatability. Blade tenderization of bullock muscles resulted in steaks which required less time to cook, had decreased amounts of organoleptically detectable connective tissue and had increased tenderness, flavor and overall palatability ratings. Blade tenderization of cow muscles had little or no effect on cooking characteristics, tenderness, flavor, or overall palatability of muscles from the round but increased the tenderness, decreased the shear force value and amount of organoleptically detectable connective tissue, and increased the overall palatability of the longissimus dorsi muscle. Blade tenderization, though it will usually improve tenderness, will not improve the product enough to make beef of unsatisfactory quality comparable to that from high quality beef.

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueteng Xing ◽  
Xin Wu ◽  
Chunyan Xie ◽  
Dingfu Xiao ◽  
Bin Zhang

The present study evaluated the effects of dietary N-carbamylglutamate (NCG) on carcass traits, meat quality, and fatty acid profiles in the longissimus dorsi muscle and adipose tissues of Chinese Ningxiang pigs. A total of 36 castrated female pigs with a similar initial weight (43.21 ± 0.57 kg) were randomly assigned to two treatments (with six pens per treatment and three pigs per pen) and fed either a basal diet or a basal diet supplemented with 0.08% NCG for 56 days. Results showed that dietary NCG reduced shear force (p = 0.004) and increased drip loss (p = 0.044) in longissimus dorsi muscle of Ningxiang pigs. Moreover, increased levels of oleic acid (C18:1n9c) (p = 0.009), paullinic acid (C20:1) (p = 0.004), and α-linolenic acid (C18:3n3) (p < 0.001), while significant reduction in the proportions of arachidonic acid (C20:4n6) (p < 0.001) and polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) (p = 0.017) were observed in the longissimus dorsi muscle of pigs fed NCG when compared with those fed the control diet. As for adipose tissues, the C20:1 (p = 0.045) proportion in dorsal subcutaneous adipose (DSA), as well as the stearic acid (C18:0) (p = 0.018) level in perirenal adipose (PA) were decreased when pigs were fed the NCG diet compared with those of the control diet. In contrast, the margaric acid (C17:0) (p = 0.043) proportion in PA were increased. Moreover, the NCG diet produced PA with a greater proportion of total PUFAs (p = 0.001) (particularly linoleic acid (C18:2n6c) (p = 0.001)) compared with those produced by the control diet. These findings suggest that dietary NCG has beneficial effects by decreasing the shear force and improving the healthfulness of fatty acid profiles, providing a novel strategy for enhancing meat quality of pigs.


1988 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. KOTULA ◽  
S. G. CAMPANO ◽  
D. M. KINSMAN

Paired beef short loin sections from four U.S. Good and four U.S. Choice carcasses were used to determine the effects of the mold Thamnidium elegans on cooking and palatability characteristics. The longissimus muscle from each section was treated with mold spores and aged for 2 or 4 d or left untreated and aged for 2 or 14 d at 4°C. Sensory panel ratings revealed that mold treatment had no significant effect (P&lt;0.05) on tenderness, juiciness, detectable connective tissue amount, or beef flavor intensity of the loins aged for 2 d. Thawing loss, cooking loss, cooking time, Instron shear force and work force values were not affected (P&gt;0.05) by treatment with T. elegans. Aging untreated meat for 14 d significantly improved (P&lt;0.05) sensory panel ratings for tenderness. No significant difference (P&gt;0.05) was noted between mold treatments (2 and 4 d) when compared to the 14-d untreated aging, for beef flavor intensity, detectable connective tissue amount, shear and work force values. Significant grade effects were noted with U.S. Choice samples having higher (P&lt;0.05) sensory panel ratings for juiciness and beef flavor intensity, and decreased (P&lt;0.05) ratings for connective tissue amount when compared with U.S. Good samples. The data indicate that treatment of sub-primal cuts with T. elegans has little or no effect on palatability and cooking characteristics.


2003 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aparecida Carla de Moura Silveira Pedreira ◽  
Albino Luchiari Filho ◽  
Vanderley Benedito de Oliveira Leite ◽  
Marina Hojaij Carvalho

Among several techniques to improve beef tenderness, vitamin D3, important for calcium mobilization, has recently been developed as an alternative. It acts on the intracellular calcium-dependent proteases (mu- and m-calpain). Ten days prior to slaughter, 36 Nelore steers were fed 0, 3, 6 and 9 million IU of supplemental vitamin D3 (D3) per animal per day (an-1 d-1). Animals were slaughtered and tenderness (shear force), cooking losses (1, 8 and 15 days of aging), sensory evaluation, and minerals in blood plasma and muscle (Longissimus dorsi) were measured. There were no differences (P > 0.05) among treatments for blood plasma and muscle mineral concentration, evaporation losses, and sensory juiciness. For drip and total loss, the smallest losses were for the 6 × 10(6) IU an-1 d-1 treatment. The control treatment resulted in lowest shear force and aging also tended to lower resistance to shearing. The 3 × 10(6) IU an-1 d-1 treatment had a positive effect on tenderness, flavor and overall palatability. High levels of supplemental D3 did not improve the quality characteristicsof Longissimus dorsi muscle from Bos indicus animals.


2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoa Van Ba ◽  
Cynthia M. Oliveros ◽  
KyoungMi Park ◽  
Dashmaa Dashdorj ◽  
Inho Hwang

Effects of marbling and chilled ageing on technological quality traits, volatile compounds and sensory characteristics of Hanwoo beef were investigated. Three marbling groups of longissimus dorsi muscles (n = 10 each), namely, high marbling (HM), moderate marbling (MM) and slight marbling (SM), classified according to the Korean carcass-grading system, were used. Each longissimus dorsi muscle from each marbling group was divided into two equal portions, vaccum-packaged and then assigned to 1- and 7-day ageing groups. The ageing was conducted in a chilling room at 4°C. Marbling level was significantly correlated with intramuscular fat content, shear force, cooking loss, tenderness and flavour. Particularly, the HM group had a lower shear force value, and higher fat content, lightness, tenderness, flavour and overall-liking scores than did MM and SM groups. Ageing significantly reduced the shear force value and increased tenderness, flavour and overall-liking scores for the HM group. Twenty-four volatile compounds were significantly influenced by marbling and/or ageing. The SM group had the highest concentration of benzaldehyde, while HM group had the highest concentrations of octanal, nonanal and dimethyl sulfide. In conclusion, our results demonstrated that a high marbling positively affected some technological quality traits and eating quality of beef, and ageing for 7 days reduced the shear force and improved eating quality of samples in the HM group, suggesting that the highly marbled beef responds to the ageing at a faster rate.


1960 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 803-809
Author(s):  
D. J. Matthews ◽  
R. A. Merkel ◽  
J. D. Wheat ◽  
R. F. Cox

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 713-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyu Tao ◽  
Tianjiao Zhou ◽  
Perot Saelao ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Yuhua Zhu ◽  
...  

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) remains a major problem in swine production since the associated low birth weight leads to high rates of pre-weaning morbidity and mortality, and permanent retardation of growth and development. The underlying regulatory mechanisms from the aspects of epigenetic modification has received widespread attention. Studies explore the changes in genome wide methylation in small intestine (SI), liver and longissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) between IUGR and normal birth weight (NBW) newborn piglets using a methylated DNA immunoprecipitation-sequencing (MeDIP-Seq) approach. The data demonstrated that methylated peaks were prominently distributed in distal intergenic regions and the quantities of peaks in IUGR piglets were more than that of NBW piglets. IUGR piglets had relatively high methylated level in promoters, introns and coding exons in all the three tissues. Through KEGG pathway analysis of differentially methylated genes found that 33, 54 and 5 differentially methylated genes in small intestine, liver and longissimus dorsi muscle between NBW and IUGR piglets, respectively, which are related to development and differentiation, carbohydrate and energy metabolism, lipid metabolism, protein turnover, immune response, detoxification, oxidative stress and apoptosis pathway. The objective of this review is to assess the impact of differentially methylation status on developmental delay, metabolic disorders and immune deficiency of IUGR piglets.


2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 241-242
Author(s):  
Yongjie Wang ◽  
Keshari Thakali ◽  
Sarah Shelby ◽  
Jason Apple ◽  
Yan Huang

Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare the meat quality and genomic differences between cross-bred commercial pig (CP) and domestic Large Black pig (BP). Seven cross-bred commercial pigs and eight British Large Black pigs were assigned to CP group and BP group, with initial mean body weights of 18.82±1.412 kg for CP group and 23.31±1.935 kg for BP group, P = 0.061, and fed ad libitum. The final BW of the CP at d101 was similar to the BP (130.0±8.16 kg vs. 121.1±2.80 kg, P = 0.132). However, the BP group took 108 days to reach the final BW. The ADG in the CP was higher than BP (1.102±0.0599 kg vs. 0.905±0.0138 kg, P = 0.003). The hot carcass weight of CP was higher (P &lt; 0.01) than BP, but the backfat of BP was higher (P &lt; 0.01) than CP. The a* value of CP was higher (P &lt; 0.05) than BP, and the c* value of CP was tended to be higher (P &lt; 0.10) than BP. However, the h value of BP was higher (P &lt; 0.05) than CP. The longissimus dorsi muscle fat content of BP was higher (P &lt; 0.05) than CP. For the fatty acid composition, the SFA and MUFA of BP were higher (P &lt; 0.05) than CP, but the PUFA of CP was higher (P &lt; 0.05) than BP. The metmyoglobin content of CP was tended to be higher (P &lt; 0.10) than BP. For the meat metabolism, the oxygen consumption of longissimus dorsi muscle of BP was higher (P &lt; 0.01) than CP. The RNA-Seq data showed that the expression of the genes related to lipid metabolism is higher in BP (fold change &gt; 3, P &lt; 0.05). To conclude, BP has higher meat quality, while CP has its advantages in growth performance. And the differences between these two breeds may due to the genomic diversity.


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