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Provedor de dados: 	Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Carcass characteristics and meat evaluation of Nelore cattle subjected to different antioxidant treatments	
Autores: 	Carmo,Thiago de Jesus do; Peripolli,Vanessa; Costa Jr,João Batista Gonçalves; Tanure,Candice Bergmann; Fioravanti,Maria Clorinda Soares; Restle,João; Kindlein,Liris; McManus,Concepta.	
Data: 	2017-02-01	
Ano: 	2017	
Palavras-chave: 	Fatty acid; Saponin; Selenium; Vitamin E; Zinc.	
Resumo: 	ABSTRACT Forty Nelore cattle were used to evaluate the effects of supplementation with different antioxidants on carcass characteristics and meat quality of feedlot cattle. Animals were fed Brachiaria brizantha hay and subjected to five treatments (control and four antioxidants: zinc, selenium, vitamin E, and selenium + vitamin E). After a 105-day feeding period, cattle were slaughtered. Tissue composition, as well as carcass proximate composition, color, tenderness, pH, and fatty acid profile were evaluated. Analysis of variance was carried out and means compared by Tukey test at 0.05 probability. The group fed selenium showed the lowest muscle amount (66.61 g/100 g) compared with the other antioxidants evaluated. There was no difference among treatments for bone, fat, and comestible portion percentages as well as muscle:bone, muscle:fat, and comestible portion:bone ratios, with mean values of 16.85 g/100 g, 14.70 g/100 g, 82.99 g/100 g, 4.06, 4.85, and 4.95, respectively. Neither brightness, red, or yellow contents of the meat nor carcass pH were affected by treatments. For tenderness and losses during thawing and cooking, there were no differences among treatments, with averages of 6.43 kgf cm2, 3.22 g/100 g, and 21.15 g/100 g, respectively. Supplementation of Nelore cattle fed Brachiaria brizantha hay with antioxidants do not influence carcass characteristics or meat quality. However, vitamin E supplementation reduces the levels of omega 3 fatty acid, whereas supplementation with selenium + vitamin E promotes an increase in linoleic and palmitoleic acids and a decrease in myristoleic acid, making the supplementation feasible due to the beneficial effects provided by these acids.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982017000200138	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia	
Relação: 	10.1590/s1806-92902017000200009	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.46 n.2 2017	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess