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http://dx.doi.org/10.5851/kosfa.2022.e33

Post-Harvest Strategies to Improve Tenderness of Underutilized Mature Beef: A Review  

Tuell, Jacob R. (School of Agricultural Sciences, Northwest Missouri State University)
Nondorf, Mariah J. (Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University)
Kim, Yuan H. Brad (Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University)
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Food Science of Animal Resources / v.42, no.5, 2022 , pp. 723-743 More about this Journal
Abstract
Beef muscles from mature cows and bulls, especially those originating from the extremities of the carcass, are considered as underutilized due to unsatisfactory palatability. However, beef from culled animals comprises a substantial proportion of the total slaughter in the US and globally. Modern consumers typically favor cuts suitable for fast, dry-heat cookery, thereby creating challenges for the industry to market inherently tough muscles. In general, cull cow beef would be categorized as having a lower extent of postmortem proteolysis compared to youthful carcasses, coupled with a high amount of background toughness. The extent of cross-linking and resulting insolubility of intramuscular connective tissues typically serves as the limiting factor for tenderness development of mature beef. Thus, numerous post-harvest strategies have been developed to improve the quality and palatability attributes, often aimed at overcoming deficiencies in tenderness through enhancing the degradation of myofibrillar and stromal proteins or physically disrupting the tissue structure. The aim of this review is to highlight existing and recent innovations in the field that have been demonstrated as effective to enhance the tenderness and palatability traits of mature beef during the chilling and postmortem aging processes, as well as the use of physical interventions and enhancement.
Keywords
beef tenderness; cull cow beef; collagen solubility; dry aging; fresh beef tumbling; postmortem proteolysis; vascular chilling;
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