Quality preservation of reduced sodium pork patties: effects of antioxidants on colour and lipid stability.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of lipid oxidation and colour change of precooked pork patties with reduced sodium and added antioxidants. This study can fill the gap of antioxidant application between meat products with regular and low salt content. RESULTS: For precooked pork patties, addition of sodium tripolyphosphate and carnosine increased pH values and cooking yields. Patties with ascorbic acid had significantly higher a* values compared to the other samples. There was no significant difference of b* values among treatments. Precooked pork patties with sodium tripolyphosphate or carnosine had significantly higher L* values compared to other patties. The addition of antioxidants reduced lipid oxidation in precooked pork patties during refrigerated storage, except for the addition of 0.5% carnosine. CONCLUSION: Tripolyphosphate and ascorbic acid were successfully proven to be effective in retarding lipid oxidation and preserve the colour stability in reduced salt pork patties. This study provides a preliminary foundation of keeping meat products from lipid oxidation and maintaining in better stability.

Effect of phosphate, ascorbic acid and α-tocopherol injected at one-location with tumbling on quality of roast beef.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate if continuous non-vacuum or vacuum tumbling improves the quality of roast beef utilizing the one location injection. Basically, fresh roast beef treated by one location injection with tumbling had significantly different quality compared to non-tumbled ones. However, the cooked roast beef did not significantly exhibit better quality due to tumbling. There was insignificant difference of TBARS value for whole meat among treatments at day 0. The control had significantly higher TBARS value compared to roast beef with non-vacuum and vacuum tumbled samples at day 2. At 4, 7 and 14 days of refrigerated storage, the control maintained the significantly highest values when compared to the other treatments that had similar TBARS values. The addition of three antioxidants was the major contributor to lipid stability of the cooked roast beef.

Lipid oxidation and color change of salted pork patties.

The purposes of this study were to explore the interaction of lipid oxidation and pigment oxidation in salted pork patties and to study the mutual relationship between lipid and pigment oxidation caused by replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride at low salt levels. For fresh pork patties, a(∗) and b(∗) values decreased with the replacement of sodium chloride by potassium chloride. However, there were no significant differences of L(∗) values, pH values, total pigments and heme irons by replacement of NaCl with KCl; however, the replacement reduced 2-thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS). The addition of sodium tripolyphosphate, ascorbic acid and carnosine did not change a(∗) and b(∗) values of raw pork patties. However, raw pork patties with 0.25% sodium tripolyphosphate had significantly higher L(∗) value compared to other samples. The pH of raw pork patties with 0.5% carnosine was higher than those of other treatments. The pH of raw pork patties with 0.25% sodium tripolyphosphate was significantly higher than that of the control treatment with no antioxidant. Samples with 550ppm ascorbic acid had significantly higher total pigment and heme iron than patties with 0.25% sodium tripolyphosphate. Although control treatment with no antioxidant had slightly higher TBARS values, these differences were not large enough to be significant.