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MEAT SCIENCE
Volume 72, Issue 4, Pages 672-679Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2005.09.017
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dry cured meat products; colour; Zn-protoporphyrin; nitrite content; salt content
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Zn-porphyrin (Zn-pp) was quantified by fluorescence spectroscopy in the Cured and dry cured meat products: Parma ham, Iberian ham, dry-cured ham with added nitrite, cooked ham with added nitrite, raw ham meat, raw bacon and Karree-Speck. The highest amount of Zn-pp was found in dry-cured Parma ham and Iberian ham, while the use of nitrite as Curing agent was found to inhibit completely the formation of Zn-pp in meat products. A positive correlation between both Zn content and Fe content and the logarithmic transformed Zn-pp content (measured as fluorescence intensity I-fl) was found for the different cured and dry cured meat products, with correlation coefficients of 0.79 (p < 0.001) and 0.71 (p < 0.01), respectively. Log I-fl correlates best with the Zri content, indicating that the formation of Zn-pp is proportional to the Zn content. A model system with vacuum packed pork in brine with different added levels of sodium chloride with or without nitrite and Zn acetate was investigated in order to further elucidate the mechanism of Zn-pp formation. Zn-pp increased with time (up to 42 days investigated) in non-cured meat and for meat cured solely with NaCl lower than 9%. Addition of nitrite or Zn(II) in the curing brine was found to inhibit formation of Zn-pp confirming the observations from the various cured meat products. it is suggested that a chloride anion assisted dissociation of iron from myoglobin could be rate-determining for Zn-pp formation in meat products. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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