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Meat Sci

Title:		Comparison of entire male and immunocastrated pigs for dry-cured ham production under two salting regimes
Author(s):		Skrlep M; Candek-Potokar M; Lukac NB; Povse MP; Pugliese C; Labussiere E; Flores M;
Address:		"Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Electronic address: meta.candek-potokar@kis.si. University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pivola 10, 2311 Hoce, Slovenia. Dipartimento di Scienze delle Produzioni Agroalimentari e dell'Ambiente, University of Florence, Via delle Cascine, 5, 50144 Firenze, Italy. INRA, UMR-1348 PEGASE, 35590 St-Gilles and Agrocampus Ouest, 35000 Rennes, France. Department of Food Science, IATA-CSIC, Avda. Agustin Escardino 7, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain"
Journal Title:		Meat Sci
Year:		2016
Volume:		20150820
Issue:
Page Number:		27 - 37
DOI:		10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.08.010
ISSN/ISBN:		1873-4138 (Electronic) 0309-1740 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Due to the initiative to stop piglet castration, meat from entire male pigs is expected to take important share on the European market which can affect dry-cured ham industry. In the present study, hams of entire males (EM) and immunocastrates (IC) were submitted to dry-curing process. Sex category and salting regime were evaluated using standard (18 days; HS) and shortened salting (6 days; LS). At the end of processing, compared to HS, LS hams had lower (40%) salt content, were more proteolysed, were less salty, and had softer texture and different volatile profile. Sex effect was less evident; still, hams from EM exhibited higher processing losses and salt intake, and were drier, less marbled, harder, and more intensively coloured than IC hams. The panellists perceived higher off-flavours in hams with high boar taint compounds (correlation 0.67 and 0.53 for skatole and androstenone, respectively). The effect of sex category on volatile profile was negligible"
Keywords:		"Animals Contraception, Immunologic/adverse effects/*veterinary Crosses, Genetic Dietary Fats/analysis Food Contamination/prevention & control *Food Preservation *Food Quality Food, Preserved/*analysis Hardness Humans Male Meat/*analysis Muscle, Skeletal/g;"
Notes:		"MedlineSkrlep, Martin Candek-Potokar, Marjeta Lukac, Nina Batorek Povse, Maja Prevolnik Pugliese, Carolina Labussiere, Etienne Flores, Monica eng Comparative Study Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2015/09/04 Meat Sci. 2016 Jan; 111:27-37. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.08.010. Epub 2015 Aug 20"