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MEAT SCIENCE
Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages 827-837Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2012.11.047
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Beef production system; Energy metabolism; Meat colour; Sarcomere length; Tenderness
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Post-slaughter muscle energy metabolism meat colour of South African production systems were compared; steers (n=182) of Nguni, Simmental Brahman crossbreds were reared on pasture until A-, AB-, or B-age, in feedlot until A-AB-age. After exsanguination carcasses were electrically stimulated (400 V for 15 s). M. longissimus dorsi muscle energy samples were taken at 1, 2, 4 and 20 h. Post-mortem samples for meat quality studies were taken at 1, 7 and 14 days post-mortem. Production systems affected muscle glycogen, glucose, glucose-6-P, lactic acid, ATP, creatine-P glycolytic potential (P<0.05), with the muscles of feedlot carcasses having a faster glycolysis rate than pasture carcasses. Energy metabolites correlated (0.4<0.9) with meat colour (CIE, V*a*b*), (0.3 < r > 0.5) water holding capacity, drip loss, and Warner Bratzler shear force. Muscle energy only affected muscle contraction of the A-age-pasture system (shortest sarcomere length of 1.66 mu m vs 1.75 mu m highest WBS of 6 kg vs 5 kg 7 days post-mortem). (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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