Comparison of Meat Quality Characteristics in Different Parts of Different Breeds of Castrated Cattle
In order to explore the changes in meat quality characteristics of Beef brown cattle from Kazakh cattle and Xinjiang brown cattle breeding to the present by analyzing the progress and effectiveness of breeding improvement to achieve the goal of improving both meat yield and meat quality.Ten castrated cattle from each breed of 600 to 700 kg were selected and slaughtered.Muscle samples from seven different carcass parts including chuck tender,chuck,striploin,tenderloin,outside flat,eye round,outside were collected for observation,the meat quality characteristics,nutritional characteristics were measured.The HE staining method was used to measure and statistically analyze fiber number、cross-sectional area、average area、fiber diameter and fiber percentage of striploin.The results showed that there was no significant difference in meat color and pH between the three breeds of castrated cattle.The shear force of Beef brown cattle is less than that of Kazakh cattle and Xinjiang brown cattle.The cooking loss of Kazakh cattle was significantly higher than that of Xinjiang brown cattle and meat brown cattle(P<0.05).The fat content of Beef brown cattle was significantly higher than that of Kazakh cattle and Xinjiang brown cattle(P<0.05).The fiber num-ber and cross-sectional area of Beef brown cattle were significantly different from those of Kazakh cattle(P<0.05),and the fiber percentage was significantly different from that of Xinjiang brown cattle(P<0.01).The striploin sec-tion showed that the perimysial thickness and intramuscular fat content of Kazakh cattle were significantly different from those of Xinjiang brown cattle and beef brown cattle.These results indicated that the breeding of Beef brown cat-tle not only improved the meat yield,but also the meat quality parameters shear force and intramuscular fat content indexes that is better than those of Kazakh cattle,and conforming the direction of quality breeding.
kazakh cattleXinjiang brown cattleBeef brown cattlephysicochemical propertiesnutritional in-dicatorsmuscle fiber properties