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Provedor de dados: | 89
País: | Brazil
Título: | Effect of different probiotics on broiler carcass and meat quality
Autores: | Pelicano,ERL; Souza,PA de; Souza,HBA de; Oba,A; Norkus,EA; Kodawara,LM; Lima,TMA de.
Data: | 2003-12-01
Ano: | 2003
Palavras-chave: | Broilers; Carcass yield; Meat quality; Organoleptic characteristics; Probiotics.
Resumo: | The present work evaluated the effect of different probiotics on carcass and meat quality of broilers. One thousand and fifty male Cobb chicks were distributed at one day of age in a randomized design with 3 x 2 + 1 factorial arrangement (3 probiotics, 2 levels of probiotics in drinking water and 1 negative control group), using 5 replications with 30 birds. Carcass yield was higher (p&lt;0.05) in control birds. Nevertheless, the groups fed with probiotics showed higher (p&lt;0.01) leg yield at 45 days of age. There was a significant decrease in color (lightness) and increase in pH of breast muscle 5 hours after slaughter in the probiotics treated birds. In the sensory analysis, meat flavor and general aspect 72 hours after slaughter were better when probiotics were added in both water and diet. There were no differences in water holding capacity, cooking loss and shearing force among different probiotics or between them and the control. Thus, meat quality was better when probiotics were fed in the water and diet instead of only in the diet. Nevertheless, carcass and meat quality showed no alteration when the control group was compared to birds fed with probiotics, except for leg yield improvement in the latter.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2003000300009
Editor: | Fundação APINCO de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-635X2003000300009
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science  v.5 n.3 2003
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess