Muscle lipid composition in bulls from 15 European breeds

Sevane Fernandez, Natalia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4766-6291, Nute, G., Sañudo, C., Cortes, O., Cañon, J., Williams, J. L. and Dunner, S. 2014. Muscle lipid composition in bulls from 15 European breeds. Livestock Science 160 , pp. 1-11. 10.1016/j.livsci.2013.11.001

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Abstract

Cattle meat provides essential nutrients necessary for a balanced diet and health preservation. Besides nutritional quality, consumers' preferences are related to specific attributes such as tenderness, taste and flavour. The present study characterizes the fatty acid composition of beef, which is an important factor in both nutritional and quality values, in 15 European cattle breeds fed a similar diet and reared in five countries (United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy and Spain). The effect of possible slight differences on diet composition which might have occurred between countries were included in the breed effect which confounds country, diet, slaughter house and slaughter day as all individuals of a same breed were managed simultaneously. The wide range of breeds studied and the significant differences on lipid profile described here provide a broad characterization of beef meat, which allows giving a better response to the variety of consumers' preferences. Regarding meat health benefits, the groups that stand out are: the double-muscled animals, which displayed lower total fat, lower proportion of saturated (SFA) and monounsaturated (MUFA) fatty acids, and a higher proportion of polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids; and Limousin and Charolais breeds with a significantly higher conversion of 18:3n-3 PUFA to the long chain 22:6n-3 PUFA.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QL Zoology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Fatty acid profile; Beef cattle; PUFA; Omega-3
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1871-1413
Date of Acceptance:	1 November 2013
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 09:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/75355

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