Internal and external factors affect the quality of meat, however ageing affects final product. Main objective of this work was to determine the effects of ageing on selected physical factors (pH, colour, water holding capacity and texture shear force) which affect meat quality from consumer and further meat processing perspective. Measuring of those factors was performed in periodical time sequences (one day post-mortem and 14 days of ageing) and factors of raw and heat-modified meat were measured. There were two hundred and fifty-eight samples from Czech pied cattle used in research. Musculus longissimus lumborum et thoracis (sirloin) was analyzed. Statistically high shear force difference (P=0.001) was identified at heat-modified and aged samples (decrease from 22.574 kg to 14.885 kg). Decrease of shear force during ageing of raw meat samples was observed at normal pH (pH < 5.8) beef ? from 6.403 kg to 5.982 kg. Correlations between pH and water holding capacity was found at samples which undergone ageing (r = 0.879 ***) and also at one day post-mortem samples (r = 0.872 ***). Middle correlation was observed between colour and pH at all colour parameters ? L* (r = -0.479 ***), a* (r = -0.478 ***) and b* (r = -0.581 ***). Water holding capacity and pH have influence on shear force of raw beef and also heat-modified beef; this was confirmed by correlation analysis. Lightness (L*) and water holding capacity affect heat-modified samples texture which was confirmed with multi-regression linear analysis (R2 = 0.565). As shown above the influence of meat ageing on quality parameters is high and properly aged meat from young bulls has better texture values. If the aged beef will be sold regularly it could be expected that consumer demand will increase especially due to remove the inconsistency of the quality of beef.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:115336 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | BENEŠ, Karel |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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