Meat quality is becoming more important as consumers worldwide are increasingly demanding consistently higher quality meat. This article looks at the improvement of meat quality and also focuses on applied animal husbandry practices that can influence meat quality. Breeding technology for meat quality is still in its infancy, and will only accelerate with new developments in genetic markers, ge...

The objective of this study was to compare the physicochemical and nutritional properties of breast and thigh meat from commercial Chinese crossbred chickens (817 Crossbred chicken, 817C), imported commercial broilers (Arbor Acres broiler, AAB), and commercial spent hens (Hyline Brown, HLB). The crossbred chickens, commercial broilers and spent hens were slaughtered at their typical market ages...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to study the electrical properties and quality of frozen-thawed chicken breast meat and to investigate the relationship between these parameters at different times of frozen storage. METHODS Thawed samples of chicken breast muscles were evaluated after being kept in frozen storage at -18°C for different periods of time (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 m...

This study was aimed to determine the effect of feeding lambs diets with different proportions of double-low rapeseed and linseed and their supplementation with vitamin E on selected parameters of health quality of lamb meat. Lambs were fattened intensively to 30–35 kg body weight with a standard diet and experimental diets containing 10% full-fat rapeseed and linseed at a 2:1 or 1:1 ratio, wit...

Our objectives were to determine how beef hot carcass weights relate temperature and pH decline, Warner-Bratzler shear force, objective color of steaks from the longissimus thoracis semimembranosus. Beef carcasses (N = 59) selected at a commercial plant based on weight separated into either light- (< 363 kg), medium- (364–407 or heavy-weight (> 408 kg) groups. Temperature in semi-...