Pig breeding takes important place in the husbandry. Consumers and producers demand higher requirements for pork quality. Genetic and non-genetic factors have influence on meat quality. Ability of meat production and demand in the market are dependet from meat quality. Meat had to have a good culinary, technological, sensual and biological characteristics. Sex have influence to meat quality, so it is important to evaluate meat quality of different breeds of gilts and castrates. To compare meat quality of gilts and castrates. The samples for analysis were taken from 10 Lithuanian White (LW), 10 Large White (LLW), 10 Landrase (L), 10 Yorkshire (Y), 10 Landrase x Large White (LxLLW), 10 Yorkshire x Landrase (YxL) gilts carcasses and from 10 Lithuanian White (LW), 10 Large White (LLW), 10 Landrase (L), 10 Yorkshire (Y), 10 Landrase x Large White (LxLLW), 10 Yorkshire x Landrase (YxL) castrates carcasses. Pigs were held at the Control Feeding Station of Pigs under the same feeding and keeping conditions. Pigs were slaughtered at the weight of 95 kg. After carcass chilling meat samples were taken from musculus longissimus dorsi for meat quality evaluating. At 48 h post-mortem, dry matter, pH, color (L* lighteness, a* redness, b* yellowness), drip loss, water holding capasity, cooking loss, shear forse, intramuscular fat, protein, ash were determined at the Laboratory of Meat Charecteristics and Quality Assessment in Lithuanian Veterinary Academy. Data were analyzed by using... [to full text]