도계 후 원료육의 저장기간 동안 가슴육의 품질 특성

This study was first conducted to investigate the effect of post-mortem storage time of chicken meat on the quality of chicken breast, and to determine whether the current grading rule that is ‘using the chicken meat within 2 day post-mortem (PM)’ is appropriate or not at meat processing plants. Different methods such as freshness, lightness (L * ), total number of microbes, 2-thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), shear force and cooking loss were performed. Forty samples of different PM time (0∼4 day) of chicken meat were stored in the refrigerator (3℃). As a result of comparing the chicken meat of 2 day and 3 day PM, torrymeter value was 6.9 and 7.0, respectively. The other values are also as follows: lightness (L * ) 60.22 and 60.51, total number of microbes 4.20 and 4.31 log10CFU/g, TBARS value 0.056 and 0.071 mg MDA/kg, shear force 1.43 and 1.59 kg/㎠, and cooking loss 17.24 and 15.66%, respectively. As a result, these two groups were not significantly different (P<0.05). TBARS value of the chicken meat of 4 day PM was 0.088 mg MDA/kg which is significantly higher compared to 2∼3 day PM (P<0.05). Thus, the result of the study suggests that using the chicken meat within 3 day PM is also possible. If the grading rule that is ‘using the chicken meat within 2 day post-mortem (PM)’ is changed to 3 day PM, it will allow processing plants and distributors to more flexibly use or distribute chicken meat.