Muscle metabolism and meat quality of Pectoralis from turkeys treated with postmortem electrical stimulation /

24 h postmortem. After aging fillets were analyzed for cook

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owens, Casey Michelle
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
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Summary:24 h postmortem. After aging fillets were analyzed for cook
450 mA, AC, 60 Hz, 2 s on/ I s off for 10 pulses) or used as
All fillets were sampled at time of deboning for expressible
and at 24 h postmortem.
and sarcomere length. The remainder of the fillet and the
as indicated by significantly lower pH values and
color values. These results suggest that this postmortem
controls or the 24 h controls. Although ES accelerated
deboned at 2 h had significantly longer sarcomeres compared
differences between the 2 h ES treatment and the 8 h ES, 8 h
different from the 8 h ES, 8 h controls or the 24 h controls.
electrical stimulation (ES) on muscle metabolism and breast
Electrical stimulation accelerated rigor mortis development
electrical stimulation system would not benefit turkey
electrically stimulated at the neck in a saline bath (570 V,
Fillets from carcasses that were electrically stimulated and
harvested from the ES carcasses at 8 h postmortem and from
loss and shear value. Color was measured at time of deboning
meat quality in turkeys. Thirty-six turkey hens were either
moisture, pH, R-value, gravimetric fragmentation index (GFI),
muscle metabolism at 2 h postmortem, it had no effect on
processors.
R-values of the 2 h ES treatment were not significantly
samples for GFI and sarcomere length were aged on ice until
shear value, expressible moisture, cook loss, GFI, L* or a*
significantly higher R-values at 2 h postmortem. The pH and
the unstimulated controls at either 8 or 24 h postmortem.
This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of
to the 2 h controls; however, there were no significant
unstimulated controls. One breast fillet from all carcasses
was harvested at 2 h postmortem. The opposite fillet was
Item Description:"Major subject: Food Science and Technology".
Vita.
Physical Description:ix, 36 leaves ; 28 cm.
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 31-35.