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Despite efforts by the industry to control the eating quality of beef, there remains a high level of variability in palatability, which is one reason for consumer dissatisfaction. In Europe, there is still no reliable on-line tool to predict beef quality and deliver consistent quality beef to consumers. Beef quality traits depend in part on the physical and chemical properties of the muscles. The...
This study used the BIF-Beef data warehouse to determine whether semitendinosus (ST) was a muscle with a faster contraction speed and more glycolytic than longissimus thoracis (LT), regardless of the sex and breed of animals. With more than 500 animals from 7 breeds, we confirmed that LT was more oxidative than ST in males and females, but not in steers, and in all the breeds studied except Montbéliard...
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