1. European conformation and fat scores of bovine carcasses are not good indicators of marbling
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Jingjing Liu, Jean-François Hocquette, Sghaier Chriki, Declan J. Troy, Grzegorz Pogorzelski, Marie-Pierre Ellies-Oury, I. Legrand, Linda J. Farmer, Jerzy Wierzbicki, Rod Polkinghorne, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213 (UMRH), VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), ISARA-Lyon, Institut de l'élevage (IDELE), Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Polish Beef Association, Agri Food and Biosciences Institute, Teagasc Food Research Centre [Fermoy, Ireland], 431 Timor Road, Murrurundi, NSW 2338, Australia., and China Scholarship Council European research project ProSafeBeef FOOD-CT-2006-36241Polish ProOptiBeef Farm to Fork project - EU Innovative POIG.01.03.01-00-204/09French 'Direction Generale de l'Alimentation' FranceAgriMer Irish Department of Agriculture Food and The Marine under the FIRM program Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture and Rural Development 'Vision' program
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Male ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Marbled meat ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Biology ,0404 agricultural biotechnology ,Animal science ,Animals ,Palatability ,2. Zero hunger ,0402 animal and dairy science ,European fat score ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Marbling ,040401 food science ,040201 dairy & animal science ,Beef industry ,Red Meat ,Adipose Tissue ,European conformation score ,Body Composition ,Cattle ,Female ,Beef ,Food Science - Abstract
International audience; Marbling is one of the primary carcass attributes utilized in most beef grading systems for eating quality evaluation. In Europe, the current beef grading system is the EUROP grid, which is focused on carcass commercial value and production yield rather than eating quality estimation. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between marbling and the most common scores for carcass classification in Europe. If there are strong associations between marbling and European classification scores, marbling score may be estimated from the carcass characteristics. However, this study indicated that European classification scores explain only a slight proportion of the variance in marbling score (32%, 46%, 34% and 21% for the entire cattle group, young bulls, females and steers, respectively). Therefore, whereas the EUROP grid is well adapted to estimate yield, it does not reflect marbling at all. The European beef industry should take into account additional indicators related to beef palatability to assist the determination of the commercial value of carcasses.
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- 2020
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