Variations in chicken breast meat quality : implications of struggle and muscle glycogen content at death

Autor: Y. Jego, B Boutten, Elisabeth Baéza, Cécile Berri, E. Le Bihan-Duval, Nadine Sellier, Cécile Arnould, M. Debut, Véronique Santé-Lhoutellier, N. Jehl, Michel J. Duclos
Přispěvatelé: Unité de Recherches Avicoles (URA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Station de recherches sur la viande, Physiologie de la reproduction et des comportements [Nouzilly] (PRC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut Français du Cheval et de l'Equitation [Saumur]-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Technique de la Salaison de la Charcuterie et des Conserves de Viandes, Partenaires INRAE, ITAVI, Hubbard, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut Français du Cheval et de l'Equitation [Saumur]-Université de Tours-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2005
Předmět:
Restraint
Physical

medicine.medical_specialty
Hot Temperature
Meat
ROUGE
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Biology
Chicken breast
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Animal science
Stress
Physiological

Internal medicine
[SDV.IDA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food engineering
medicine
Water holding capacity
Animals
[INFO]Computer Science [cs]
[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering
Cooked meat
Muscle
Skeletal

ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
030304 developmental biology
2. Zero hunger
0303 health sciences
Glycogen
Behavior
Animal

Stunning
0402 animal and dairy science
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
040201 dairy & animal science
Endocrinology
Standard line
chemistry
Animal Science and Zoology
Water holding
Chickens
Abattoirs
Food Science
Zdroj: British Poultry Science
British Poultry Science, Taylor & Francis, 2005, 46 (5), pp.572-579
ISSN: 0007-1668
1466-1799
Popis: 1. Pectoralis major (P. major) muscle pH and meat quality traits were studied in relation to bird response to ante-mortem stress in three chicken lines: a fast-growing standard line (FGL), a slow-growing French 'Label Rouge' line (SGL) and a heavy line (HL). Ninety-nine birds of the three genetic types were slaughtered at their usual marketing age (6, 12 and 6 weeks for FGL, SGL and HL birds, respectively) on the same day. The birds of each line were divided into three different ante-mortem treatment groups: minimum stress (shackling for 10 s) (C), shackling for 2 min (SH) and acute heat plus shackling stress (exposure to 35 degrees C for 3.5 h and shackling for 2 min before stunning) (H + SH). 2. Regardless of chicken line, wing flapping duration (WFD) between hanging and stunning was strongly negatively related to P. major muscle pH at 15 min post-mortem. It was also moderately negatively related to P. major muscle glycolytic potential (GP), which represents glycogen level at death. Increasing WFD induced an increased ultimate pH (pHu) only in HL. The consequences of increased WFD for breast meat traits were dependent on the chicken line: it induced lower L* and b* and higher a* and drip loss in SGL while it only increased breast a* in HL birds. By contrast, WFD variations did not alter breast meat quality traits of FGL birds. Regardless of the chicken line, increased GP was associated with lower pHu and higher L* and drip loss. In SGL, it also increased b* and decreased curing-cooking yield of breast meat. 3. Struggling activity on the shackle line and muscle glycogen content at death could partly explain line and pre-slaughter variations in breast meat pH and quality traits. The water holding capacity of the raw and cooked meat was impaired by long shackling in the case of SGL birds while it was barely affected by ante-mortem conditions in the two standard lines. In conditions which minimised bird struggling (C), SGL and FGL birds had meat with a better water holding ability than that of broilers from the heavy line. However, when broilers were subjected to SH or H + SH conditions, the breast meat water holding capacity of SGL birds was lowered to the same level as that of the heavy line birds.
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