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Meat quality traits and feeding distillers grains to cattle: a review
- Source :
- Animal Production Science. 60:1123
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- CSIRO Publishing, 2020.
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Abstract
- Livestock management and meat production involve a series of steps that affect meat quality. Animal genetics, nutrition and diets, slaughter procedures and meat-preservation conditions are some of the parameters that should be controlled to maintain meat quality. In regard to animal nutrition and diets, novel ingredients are increasingly used, distillers grains (DG) being an example. DG are obtained as a co-product from bioethanol production and comprise the fat, protein, fibre and micronutrient portion of the grains. Many papers have studied the inclusion of DG in finishing diets and their effect on growth performance and meat characteristics, but a review on the effects on meat quality is needed. Feeding with DG influences beef colour; nevertheless, a relationship between the level of inclusion and colour development has not been established yet. In addition, feeding DG-inclusion diets sometimes increases meat discoloration during retail display. Also, the composition of fatty acids is modified since total polyunsaturated fatty acid content in meat increases with the inclusion of DG in finishing diets. This increment in polyunsaturated fatty acid content is likely to contribute to lipid oxidation processes and might be related to meat discoloration due to myoglobin oxidation. However, meat tenderness has not been modified in most of the cases. This review focused on recent studies on DG inclusion, animal performance and meat quality. Key points that need further research are also identified and discussed.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
0303 health sciences
0402 animal and dairy science
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Biology
Micronutrient
040201 dairy & animal science
Distillers grains
Tenderness
03 medical and health sciences
Meat tenderness
chemistry
Lipid oxidation
medicine
Animal Science and Zoology
Composition (visual arts)
Food science
medicine.symptom
Animal nutrition
030304 developmental biology
Food Science
Polyunsaturated fatty acid
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18360939
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Animal Production Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........eda7bf58209b2c9e81a1abdac812f737
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1071/an18382