The relationship of pork longissimus muscle pH to mitochondrial respiratory activities, meat quality and muscle structure

The way the pH falls post-slaughter has an impact on meat quality. Pork longissimus muscles (n=48) were sorted in fast- (FG) (n=15) and normal glycolysing (NG) (n=33) muscles according to the post-slaughter pH 45 min values (FG<6.0; NG>6.0). FG muscles (5.84±0.04) compared with NG muscles (6.2...

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Main Authors: J. Popp, M. Wicke, G. Klein, C. Krischek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Animal
Subjects:
pig
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731114002365