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Colour and lipid stability of beef from grazing or concentrate-fed cattle with and without supplemental alpha-tocopheryl acetate stored in a high oxygen atmosphere when intact or minced

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

P.G. Dunne*
Affiliation:
Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre, Dublin 15, Ireland
G. Colarusso
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche ed Ispezione degli Alimenti(DISCIZIA), Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Via Delpino n.1, 80137 Napoli, Italy
A. Anastasio
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche ed Ispezione degli Alimenti(DISCIZIA), Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Via Delpino n.1, 80137 Napoli, Italy
F.J. Monahan
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
A.P. Moloney
Affiliation:
Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre, Dublin 15, Ireland
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Supranutritional supplementation of cattle with vitamin E has improved the colour and lipid stability of beef. Grass-fed cattle have muscle vitamin E concentrations which are 2 to 3 times greater than unsupplemented concentrate-fed cattle (Lanari et al., 2002) but also have higher concentrations of the highly oxidisable long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (Nuernberg et al., 2005). The objective was to compare the oxidative stability of grass-with concentrate-fed beef, both minced and intact, and to determine if supplemental vitamin E can increase the oxidative stability of such beef in high oxygen packaging.

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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2008

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