The relationship between broiler breast meat color and pH, moisture content, water-holding capacity (WHC), and emulsification capacity (EC) was investigated. In each of three replicate trials, fillets were collected from three different commercial processing plants according to breast meat lightness (L*) values as follows: lighter than normal (light, L* > 53), normal (48 < L* < 53), and darker ...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) on fatty acid composition, lipoprotein content, lipid peroxidation, and meat colour of broiler chickens. A total of 180 broiler chickens were allocated to 3 dietary treatments (0, 2.5, and 5% Lutrell) and given a standard broiler starter diet and finisher diet. Body weight of chickens and feed intake w...

The objective of the present research was to develop vacuum packaging incorporated with Rosmarinus officinalis L. essential oil treatment of fresh chicken breast meat. For this purpose, fresh chicken’s meat breast samples were divided into three groups. First group was kept as a control group with air packaging, others one was with vacuum packaging of samples and last one group was treated with...

Quantitatively and qualitatively most important metabolites of the indispensable polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) of the n-6 (linoleic acid, LA) and the n-3 (α-linolenic acid, LNA) series are arachidonic acid (AA), and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), respectively. In the present experiment, AA content, long-chain n-3 PUFA equivalent (LCE; calculated as 0.15 LNA + E...

An experiment was conducted to compare the effect of dietary sodium selenite and selenomethionine on selenium and α-tocopherol concentration in breast meat, oxidative stability of meat in broilers, and on growth performance, but only as an unimportant criterion in this case. Sexed broiler cockerels Ross 308 were allocated to 3 dietary treatments, each comprising 100 chickens. The basal diet was...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between dietary protein sources in early adulthood and risk of breast cancer. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Health professionals in the United States. PARTICIPANTS 88,803 premenopausal women from the Nurses' Health Study II who completed a questionnaire on diet in 1991. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Incident cases of invasive breast carcinoma, ...

An experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of powdered vegetable dip sauces to improve the tenderness of spent-hen breast meat. Our overall purpose was to find lower-priced materials for the tenderization of spent-hen breast meat. The spent-hen breast meat was dipped into vegetable powder for 24 h at 4°C, and then the samples were analyzed. In the results for vegetable-powder trea...

Soluble proteins, myofibrillar proteins, collagen, texture, and cook loss were evaluated at different meat temperatures by heating ground and formed chicken breast meat in brass containers in a water bath to temperatures of 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 C. The soluble proteins decreased by approximately 90% as meat temperature increased from 23 to 80 C. The myofibrillar protein subunits of molecular we...