background : in every society, meat costs the most expensive parts of food basket, meat consumption is noticeably different in poor and rich societies. since meat intake has been associated with several chronic impairments, reduction of red meat in the diet has been   recommended by several health information services. however it is not clear yet to what extent the employed policies has been ef...

A trial was conducted to examine the effect of cinnamon essential oil supplementation on lamb growth performance and meat quality. Sixteen male lambs were randomly assigned to two groups. The first group served as control and was given a basal diet, and the second group was given the same diet supplemented with cinnamon oil (1 ml/kg of concentrated feed) for 35 days. Incorporation of cinnamon o...

This study was undertaken to assess the effect of milk replacer (MR) containing Lactobacillus acidophilus and a mix of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis and Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum on lamb immune response and on lamb meat quality. A 6-week-trial was conducted on 40 male Comisana lambs, divided into four groups, fed maternal milk (MM), MR, MR with L. acidophilus supplementation...

Those avoiding red meat represent up to 16% of the UK population whilst the proportion of the UK claiming to be ‘eating less meat’ ranges from 32.5 to 48% (Woodward, 1988; Food Research Association, 1989; The Realeat Survey Office, 1990; Vegetarian Society, 1991). In contrast, total meat production has not varied dramatically over recent years. Production figures reveal that although there has ...

Those avoiding red meat represent up to 16% of the UK population whilst the proportion of the UK claiming to be ‘eating less meat’ ranges from 32.5 to 48% (Woodward, 1988; Food Research Association, 1989; The Realeat Survey Office, 1990; Vegetarian Society, 1991). In contrast, total meat production has not varied dramatically over recent years. Production figures reveal that although there has ...

Those avoiding red meat represent up to 16% of the UK population whilst the proportion of the UK claiming to be ‘eating less meat’ ranges from 32.5 to 48% (Woodward, 1988; Food Research Association, 1989; The Realeat Survey Office, 1990; Vegetarian Society, 1991). In contrast, total meat production has not varied dramatically over recent years. Production figures reveal that although there has ...

little scientific information is available that has evaluated safflower (carthamus tinctorius) cake as a substitute to conventional ingredients in small ruminants diet. the objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of feeding safflower cake in total mixed rations (tmrs) on lamb and kid growth rates, carcass traits and meat fatty acid composition. two consecutive trials were conducted us...

Introduction: Sarcocystis species are one of the most important meat borne parasites. Sarcocystosis causes several symptoms in human as well as numerous diseases with high economic impact in livestock. In current paper at first results of a pilot study for determination of disease agent in lamb of Yazd province central Iran is presented. Then status of parasite in red meat products in study reg...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the inclusion of sunflower cake in the diets of lambs on meat quality. Forty male, uncastrated Santa Ines lambs with an initial average body weight of 20.9 ± 0.41 kg were used in a completely randomized design with four treatments. The lambs were fed 500 g/kg hay and 500 g/kg concentrate (corn, soybean meal, urea, ammonium sulfate and sunflow...

This Data article provides Supplementary data related to the research article titled "In-depth characterisation of the lamb meat proteome from longissimus lumborum" by Yu et al. [1]. This research article reports the proteome catalogue of the 48 h post-mortem lamb longissimus lumborum. A list of 388 ovine-specific proteins were identified and characterised after separating the samples into sarc...