Quantifying production, processing and post-slaughter effects on pork eating quality using random effects meta-regression.

ABSTRACT: Random effects meta-regression techniques, analyzed using a restricted maximum likelihood (REML) approach, was used to determine the influence of various factors that may be experienced or imposed on pigs, carcases and pork on pork eating quality attributes and shear force of the M. longissimus dorsi (loin). This was done to inform the development of a pathway based eating quality system for pork. Estimated means of explanatory variables were obtained for those pathway factors where sufficient published studies met the criteria for inclusion in the analysis. Due to a lack of data for interactions between factors investigated, only single factors were included as fixed terms in the REML models. This analysis identified that moisture infusion (P < 0.001), ageing for more than 2 d post

SUBMITTER: Channon HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7204977 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature