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Chilling rate effects on pork loin tenderness in commercial processing plants

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JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
卷 90, 期 8, 页码 2842-2849

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2011-4855

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chilling; pork; slice shear force; tenderness

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The present experiment was conducted to provide a large-scale objective comparison of pork LM tenderness and other meat quality traits among packing plants that differ in stunning method and carcass chilling rate. For each of 2 replicates, pigs were sourced from a single barn of a commercial finishing operation that fed pigs from a single terminal crossbred line. On each day, 3 trucks were loaded, with each of those trucks delivering the pigs to a different plant. Plant A used CO2 stunning and conventional spray chilling; Plant B used CO2 stunning and blast chilling; and Plant C used electrical stunning and blast chilling. The boneless, vacuum-packaged loin was obtained from the left side of each carcass (n = 597; 100 . plant(-1) . replicate(-1)). As designed, HCW, LM depth, and LM intramuscular fat percentage did not differ among plants (P > 0.05). By 1.67 h postmortem (1 h after the carcasses exited the harvest floor), the average deep LM temperature was > 10 degrees C warmer for Plant A than Plants B and C (32.1 degrees C, 21.6 degrees C, and 19.3 degrees C, for Plants A, B, and C, respectively) and deep LM temperature continued to be > 10 degrees C warmer for Plant A until 4.17 h or 6.33 h postmortem than for Plants C and B, respectively. Both plants that used blast chilling produced loins with greater LM slice shear force at 15 d postmortem than did the plant that used conventional spray chilling (P < 0.0001). The frequency of loins with excessively high (> 25 kg) LM slice shear force values was greater for Plant B than Plant A (14.7% vs. 1%; P < 0.01). Among all the traits studied, including visual and instrumental evaluations of LM color, ultimate pH, marbling score, and lean color stability, the only other difference between Plants A and B was that purge loss during 13 d (from d 1 to 14) of vacuum-packaged storage was greater for Plant B (P < 0.05). That is, with this sample of pigs and CO2 stunning, no loin quality advantages were detected for blast chilling. Regardless of chilling method, CO2 stunning resulted in darker LM lean color and greater LM water-holding capacity than did electrical stunning (P < 0.05). This research shows that differences in chilling systems among pork packing plants can have a strong influence on loin chop tenderness.

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