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Effect of low- and high-forage diets on meat quality and fatty acid composition of Alentejana and Barrosã beef breeds.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jul 2012
Costa P, Lemos J P, Lopes P A, Alfaia C M, Costa A S H, Bessa R J B, Prates J A M
Abstract excerpt
This study investigated the effects of genotype and diet on meat fat composition and palatability obtained from Alentejana (AL) and Barrosã (BA) breeds. Herein, 20 males from each breed allocated at 11 months of age were fed ad libitum a low-forage diet or a high-forage diet and slaughtered at 18 months of age. Trained sensory panel analysis found that the longissimus lumborum (Ll) muscle from BA had higher...
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