In recent years, the concept of food quality has received a lot of attention from food producers and retailers as well as from public authorities and health educators. There are a lot of discusses a practical approach to defining the term ‘quality’. But although there have been many attempts to clarify and define the concept, there still no general agreement on the term (Grebitus et al, 2006). For European food industry, quality is a key factor because the high quality of a product is the basis for success in this highly competitive market. However, it is difficult to decide which sort of meat has the best nutrition value or technological properties (Kortz, 2003).
Work object. To research and compare various animal meat quality and nutrition value.
During investigation were taken 6 different sorts of animal and poultry meat samples: Lithuanian white pigs, Lithuanian black head sheep, Lithuanian black-white bulls, wild pork, Big-6 turkey broilers and Hybro G cross chicken broilers. For the samples was taken 500-550g from long back muscle (musculus longissimus dorsi). For poultry and turkey samples was taken breast meat. Pork, sheep, bulls, chicken and turkey broilers were raised and slaughtered in the same groups, had the same feeding and slaughtering conditions, wild pork was hunted in Lithuanian forests. Measuring different animals meat quality and nutrition features, samples were taken chilled 24 hours after slaughtering.
Meat quality indexes were measured at ‘Meat... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070417_104959-92373 |
| Date | 17 April 2007 |
| Creators | Valaitienė, Vilma |
| Contributors | Jukna, Vigilijus, Matusevičius, Paulius, Kauzonienė, Ilona, Kulpys, Jurgis, Gružauskas, Romas, Suveizdis, Virginijus, Jukna, Česlovas, Staniškienė, Birutė, Čiučelienė, Zita, Juozaitis, Arūnas, Kriauzienė, Janina, Lithuanian Veterinary Academy |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Lithuanian Veterinary Academy |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070417_104959-92373 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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