Research article2003Peer reviewed
Pore formation in cured-smoked pork determined with image analysis - effects of tumbling and RN- gene
Hullberg A, Ballerini L
Abstract
The objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of RN genotype (rn(+)/rn(+) or RN-/rn(+)) and tumbling condition (tumbled or non-tumbled) on the number of undesirable pore formation in cured-smoked loins using image analysis. Even when not significant, RN-/rn(+) loins contained more pores than rn(+)/rn(+) loins. Tumbling clearly decreased the total number of pores, but increased the mean area per pore. Tumbled rn(+)/rn(+) loins contained half the number of pores compared with tumbled RN-/rn(+) loins. Even if RN genotype and tumbling influenced the number of pores they did not explain the development of pores in processed meat. The high correlations found when comparing the image analysis results with data from a trained sensory panel and visually scored images indicate that image analysis is a good too] in this type of investigations. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Keywords
pore formation; RN genotype; tumbling condition; image analysis; pork quality
Published in
Meat Science
2003, Volume: 65, number: 4, pages: 1231-1236
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
UKÄ Subject classification
Food Science
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0309-1740(03)00030-5
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/125