Postmortem changes in meat quality and myofibrillar protein degradation in turkey breast muscle

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effect of elevated carcass temperature in combination with rapidly declining pH or with postrigor muscle on turkey breast meat quality. Two groups of twelve turkey carcasses with similar ultimate pH values were selected based on 15 min postmortem (PM)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rathgeber, Bruce Mitchell
Other Authors: Shand, Phyllis J.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Saskatchewan 2000
Online Access:http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-10212004-002733