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Post-slaughter Intervention Techniques to Ensure Tenderness of Beef Muscles for Korean Consumers

한국 소비자 쇠고기 연도 보증을 위한 도축후 도체 처리기술

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Abstract

Management to improve beef tenderness is always been a historical idea, but during the recent past it has become an issue of prime importance to the meat scientists and the industries as well. Variation in tenderness is the prime explanation for consumer’s dissatisfaction for the concern meat. It has been well documented that both postmortem proteolysis and sarcomere length have significant effect on meat tenderness and its consistency. Electrical stimulation and tenderstretch techniques have been used by a number of countries to underpin carcass quality assurance schemes focused on eating quality. The mechanism(s) by which the postmortem interventions improve tenderness (or prevent toughness) has not been fully elucidated. However, it is evident that electrical stimulation accelerates the development of rigor mortis so that prevention of cold shortening is possible and ageing commences at higher temperatures. On the other hand, tendersretch appears to prevent meat toughness via placing tension of the myofibrils and connective matrix during rigor development. Previous findings indicated that electrical stimulation and tenderstretch improved beef tenderness even for fattened cattle under moderate chilling conditions. Recent studies demonstrate beef tenderness to be one of the most important factors determining satisfaction levels of Korean beef consumers. There are number of studies which reported that electrical stimulation and tenderstretch techniques improved Hanwoo tenderness and color. It is believed that the techniques are mostly useful wherein controls of carcass size, fatness and/or chilling regimes are not easy such as Korean beef industry. However, Korean beef industry is one such area where postmortem intervention techniques have not been adopted so far. Taking into consideration of the Korean beef industry, wherein carcass size and fatness varies the post-slaughter intervention technique could be the most feasible measurement to ensure eating quality. The manuscript attempts to highlight the current knowledge aiming primarily towards the assurance of beef tenderness.

쇠고기 연도 조절에 대한 연구는 오랜 역사를 가지고 있으나, 균일한 쇠고기 맛에 대한 소비자들의 요구 증가로 응용적 연구가 가속화 되고 있다. 도축 후 근절길이와 단백질 분해가 연도에 큰 영향을 미친다는 사실은 잘 밝혀졌다. 전기자극은 맛 보증 프로그램을 위해서 여러 나라에서 산업적으로 이용되고 있다. 전기자극이 연도를 향상(또는 질겨짐 감소)시키는 기전은 모두 밝혀지지 않았으나, 이 처리가 저온 단축을 막고 사후 강직을 단축시켜 단백질 분해를 증가시킨다는 결과는 명확해 보인다. 한편 Tenderstretch는 사후 강직기 동안 근섬유와 결체 조직에 장력을 가하여 고기의 질겨짐을 줄이는 작용을 하는 것으로 보인다. 선행 연구들은 도축 후 전기자극과 Tenderstretch 처리가 지방이 많은 가축과 냉각 온도가 느린 조건에서도 연도를 향상 시킨다는 사실들을 증명하였다. 최근 연구에 의하면 한국 소비자들도 연도가 쇠고기 맛을 결정하는데 중요한 요인이며, 국내 연구결과에 의하면 도축 후 전기자극 또는 tenderstretch 처리가 한우의 연도 및 육색을 증가시키는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 이 기법들은 도체의 크기 및 지방 침착도와 도축 후 냉각속도 조절이 어려운 국내 축산업 조건에서 연도의 균일성 및 개선을 보장할 수 있는 중요한 기법으로 판단되나, 국내 산업체에서는 이용되지 않고 있다. 이 논문은 이러한 기법에 대한 현재의 이론과 국내 쇠고기 산업에 주는 의미를 서술했다.

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