Dietary citrus pulp and grape pomace as potential natural preservatives for extending beef shelf life
- Source:
- Meat science 2020 v.162 pp. 108029
- ISSN:
- 0309-1740
- Subject:
- Angus, antioxidant activity, beef, beef cattle, biopreservatives, body weight, cattle finishing, citrus pulp, coliform bacteria, diet, grape pomace, lipids, longissimus muscle, microbial load, oxidation, packaging, shelf life, slaughter, steers, thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances
- Abstract:
- The shelf-life of beef was compared from 7-months old Angus steers (281 ± 15.4 kg initial body weight) fed 150 g/kg DM dried citrus pulp (DCP) or grape pomace (DGP) for 90 days. The antioxidant activity, bacterial load, and lipid and protein oxidation were evaluated on the longissimus lumborum subjected to air-permeable packaging at days 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 post-slaughter. Beef antioxidant activity was DGP > DCP > control (P ≤ 0.05). Beef from steers fed DGP or DCP had higher L* values (P ≤ 0.05) and fewer (P ≤ 0.05) coliform counts than steers fed the control diet. Beef antioxidant activity was DGP > DCP > control (P ≤ 0.05). Beef TBARS and carbonyl contents were DGP < DCP < control (P ≤ 0.05). Overall, antioxidant activity decreased (P ≤ 0.05), while bacterial loads, TBARS and carbonyl contents increased (P ≤ 0.05) during retail display for all diets. Current findings indicate that DGP could be a better natural preservative than DCP when included in beef cattle finishing diets.
- Agid:
- 6785106
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2019.108029