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http://dx.doi.org/10.5851/kosfa.2016.36.5.650

Effects of Artificial Supercooling Followed by Slow Freezing on the Microstructure and Qualities of Pork Loin  

Kim, Yiseul (Faculty of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sejong University)
Hong, Geun-Pyo (Faculty of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sejong University)
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Food Science of Animal Resources / v.36, no.5, 2016 , pp. 650-655 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated the effects of artificial supercooling followed by still air freezing (SSF) on the qualities of pork loin. The qualities of pork frozen by SSF were compared with the fresh control (CT, stored at 4℃ for 24 h), slow freezing (SAF, still air freezing) and rapid freezing (EIF, ethanol immersion freezing) treatments. Compared with no supercooling phenomena of SAF and EIF, the extent of supercooling obtained by SSF treatment was 1.4℃. Despite that SSF was conducted with the same method with SAF, application of artificial supercooling accelerated the phase transition (traverse from -0.6℃ to -5℃) from 3.07 h (SAF) to 2.23 h (SSF). The observation of a microstructure indicated that the SSF prevented tissue damage caused by ice crystallization and maintained the structural integrity. The estimated quality parameters reflected that SSF exhibited superior meat quality compared with slow freezing (SAF). SSF showed better water-holding capacity (lower thawing loss, cooking loss and expressible moisture) and tenderness than SAF, and these quality parameters of SSF were not significantly different with ultra-fast freezing treatment (EIF). Consequently, the results demonstrated that the generation of supercooling followed by conventional freezing potentially had the advantage of minimizing the quality deterioration caused by the slow freezing of meat.
Keywords
supercooling; nucleation; freezing rate; pork loin; quality parameters;
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