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MEAT SCIENCE
Volume 172, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2020.108350
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Dark cutting meat; Meat quality; Metabolites; NMR spectroscopy; Angus
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- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2018/09800-3, 2019/13656-8]
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This preliminary study aimed to evaluate meat quality properties, muscle metabolite profile, and metabolic pathways associated with dark cutting meat in Angus x Nellore crossbreed cattle. The results showed that dark cutting meat exhibited distinct meat quality attributes and concentrations of post-mortem glycolytic metabolites compared to normal meat, and appeared to be correlated with mitochondrial activity. Pathway analysis indicated that differentiation between dark cutting and normal meat was linked to energetic pathways such as starch and sucrose metabolism, amino sugar, nucleotide sugar metabolism, and glycolysis or gluconeogenesis.
The aim of this preliminary study was to evaluate meat quality properties, muscle metabolite profile and metabolic pathways associated with the occurrence of dark cutting meat in Angus x Nellore crossbreed cattle. After 14 days' ageing, dark cutting meat presented a higher pH, lower cooking loss and colour parameters, and greater tenderness compared with normal meat. Dark cutting meat had a higher ATP level and lower concentrations of glucose-6-phosphate, lactate, glucose, serine, threonine, creatine phosphate, inosine, leucine, methionine, succinate and glucose-1-phosphate compared to normal meat. In dark cutting samples, the ultimate pH was positively correlated with carnitine and negatively correlated with glucose-6-phosphate. However, in normal meat, the ultimate pH presented a positive correlation with arginine, leucine, methionine, proline, threonine, tyrosine and valine. Pathway analysis showed that differentiation of the groups was linked to energetic pathways such as starch and sucrose metabolism, the pentose phosphate pathway, amino sugar, nucleotide sugar metabolism, and glycolysis or gluconeogenesis. In conclusion, the occurrence of dark cutting meat has a notable impact on meat quality attributes and concentrations of post-mortem glycolytic metabolites, appears to be correlated with mitochondrial activity and affects energetic metabolic pathways.
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