ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF BEEF CARCASSES AT VARIOUS TIMES POSTMORTEM.

Author(s) : SMULDERS F. J. M., EIKELENBOOM G.

Type of article: Article

Summary

TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED, INVOLVING MALES OF APPROXIMATELY 15 MONTHS OLD, IN WHICH THE EFFECT OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION AT VARIOUS TIMES POSTMORTEM WAS INVESTIGATED. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT MONITORED THE EFFECT ON PH FALL IN LONGISSIMUS AND ADDUCTOR MUSCLE AFTER STIMULATION AT 10, 45 AND 70 MIN POSTMORTEM AS COMPARED WITH CONTROLS. DATA INDICATED THAT ELECTRICAL STIMULATION WAS MORE EFFECTIVE IN LOWERING PH OF LONGISSIMUS MUSCLE THE SOONER THE CURRENT WAS APPLIED. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT INVOLVED THE EFFECTS OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION AT 10, 40 AND 50 MIN POSTMORTEM ON SOME SENSORY QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS. ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONAT ALL TIMES EFFECTED HIGHER DRIP LOSSES AND LOWER SHEAR FORCE VALUES. THE ADVANTAGES OF EARLY POSTMORTEM STIMULATION ARE DISCUSSED.

Details

Original title: ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF BEEF CARCASSES AT VARIOUS TIMES POSTMORTEM.
Record ID : 1986-1500
Languages: German
Source: Fleischwirtschaft - vol. 66 - n. 1
Publication date: 1986/01
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Themes: Food quality and safety. Microbiology;
Meat and meat products
Keywords: Meat; Chilling; Beef; Organoleptic property; Electrical stimulation; Ph