INVESTIGADORES
ZARITZKY Noemi Elisabet
artículos
Título:
Antioxidant status, lipid and colour stability of aged beef from grazing steers supplemented with corn grain and increasing levels of flaxseed
Autor/es:
POUZO, L.B., DESCALZO, A.M., ZARITZKY, N.E., ROSSETTI, L. , PAVAN, E.
Revista:
MEAT SCIENCE
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2016 vol. 111 p. 1 - 8
ISSN:
0309-1740
Resumen:
Angus steers were grazed on unsupplemented pasture (CNTRL), pasture supplemented with 0.7% BW cracked corn (FLAX-0), FLAX-0 with 0.125% and 0.250% BW of whole flaxseed (FLAX-1 and FLAX-2). Six steers were grazed per treatment for 70 days, with start and finish weights of 458 and 508 kg. At 24 h post slaughter,longissimus thoracis were harvested, and steaks assigned to treatments of postmortem aging time under vacuum (PM; 3, 14 and 56 days) with or without five days of aerobic exposure (AE). Meat antioxidant status was higher (P b 0.05) when feeding CNTRL and FLAX-1 than FLAX-0 and FLAX-2. Under AE, lipid oxidation was highest for FLAX-2 (P b 0.05), and lowest for FLAX-1. Greatest TBARs and lowest antioxidant capacity and redness values were obtained with AE and the longer PM (P b 0.05). Beef oxidative stability through AE improved by adding alow flaxseed level to supplemented corn grain, but deteriorated by adding a high flaxseed level or by extending PM.