Inhibition of pinking in cooked, uncured turkey rolls through the binding of non-pinking ligands to muscle pigments

The pink color defect in cooked, uncured turkey is a sporadic problem which can result in consumer dissatisfaction. Nicotinamide hemochrome may be one of the major pigments responsible for this defect. Reflectance (400-700 nm) methodology was developed to reliably and easily quantify (%R 537 nm/%R 5...

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Main Author: Schwarz, Stephen J.
Other Authors: Food Science and Technology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44982
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10022008-063230/