By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- New research on Life Science Research - Animal Science is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Tsukuba, Japan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The relationship between water-holding capacity (WHC) and intermuscular fat (IMF) was studied in Japanese commercial pork. Longissimus muscles of pigs (n=62), obtained from two meat packing plants, were analyzed for IMF content, moisture content, drip loss, cooking loss, and pH.”
Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, “Pairwise relationships among these traits were determined using correlation analyses. IMF content was significantly correlated with moisture content (r=-0.88; p<0.01) and pH (r=0.32; p<0.05), but not with drip loss (r=-0.23; p=0.07) or cooking loss (r=-0.10; p=0.42). In contrast, drip loss was significantly (and negatively) correlated with pH (r=-0.57; p<0.01).”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “IMF content was not significantly correlated with WHC in pork, and so ultimately, we consider pH to be one of the most important factors influencing WHC in pork meat.”
For more information on this research see: Relationship between water-holding capacity and intramuscular fat content in Japanese commercial pork loin. Asian-australasian Journal of Animal Sciences , 2017;():. Asian-australasian Journal of Animal Sciences can be contacted at: Asian-Australasian Assoc Animal Production Societies, College Agriculture Life Sciences, Dept Animal Science Technology, Suwon 441-744, South Korea.
The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting G. Watanabe, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Additional authors for this research include M. Motoyama, I. Nakajima and K. Sasaki.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.5713/ajas.17.0640. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
Publisher contact information for the Asian-australasian Journal of Animal Sciences is: Asian-Australasian Assoc Animal Production Societies, College Agriculture Life Sciences, Dept Animal Science Technology, Suwon 441-744, South Korea.
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CITATION: (2018-01-09), New Findings Reported from National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Describe Advances in Animal Science (Relationship between water-holding capacity and intramuscular fat content in Japanese commercial pork loin), Life Science Weekly, 3927, ISSN: 1552-2474, BUTTER® ID: 014973858
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