Comparison of entire male and immunocastrated pigs for dry-cured ham production under two salting regimes

Autor: Etienne Labussière, Marjeta Čandek-Potokar, Carolina Pugliese, Nina Batorek Lukač, Mónica Flores, Maja Prevolnik Povše, Martin Škrlep
Přispěvatelé: Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Faculty of agriculture and life sciences, University of Maribor, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Elevage [Rennes] (PEGASE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Meat Science
Meat Science, Elsevier, 2016, 111, pp.27-37. ⟨10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.08.010⟩
ISSN: 0309-1740
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.08.010
Popis: International audience; Due to the initiative to stop piglet castration, meat from entire male pigs is expected to take important share on the European market which can affect dry-cured ham industry. In the present study, hams of entire males (EM) and immunocastrates (IC) were submitted to dry-curing process. Sex category and salting regime were evaluated using standard (18days; HS) and shortened salting (6days; LS). At the end of processing, compared to HS, LS hams had lower (40%) salt content, were more proteolysed, were less salty, and had softer texture and different volatile profile. Sex effect was less evident; still, hams from EM exhibited higher processing losses and salt intake, and were drier, less marbled, harder, and more intensively coloured than IC hams. The panellists perceived higher off-flavours in hams with high boar taint compounds (correlation 0.67 and 0.53 for skatole and androstenone, respectively). The effect of sex category on volatile profile was negligible.
Databáze: OpenAIRE