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http://dx.doi.org/10.5187/jast.2021.e67

Changes in the quality of pork loin after short-term (ten-day) storage in a supercooling refrigerator  

Park, Chun Ho (Department of Hotel & Food Service Culinary Art, Daejeon Health Institute of Technology)
Park, Hye Sook (Department of Environmental Health, Daejeon Health Institute of Technology)
Yoon, Kyungah (Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Daejeon Health Institute of Technology)
Choe, Jeehwan (Department of Beef Science, Korea National College of Agriculture and Fisheries)
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Journal of Animal Science and Technology / v.63, no.4, 2021 , pp. 884-891 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study aimed to evaluate pork loin quality after short-term (ten-day) storage in a supercooling refrigerator. Pork loin samples were stored for 10 days in a traditional refrigerator (control) and a commercially available supercooling refrigerator (SC). Pork quality measurements included meat pH, meat color, water holding capacity (drip loss and cooking loss), tenderness (hardness), and a sensory evaluation. Temperature changes of 0.45 ± 0.2℃ and 0.02 ± 0.25℃ occurred in the control and the SC, respectively, during 10 days of storage. The temperature in the SC chamber did not remain below freezing point, failing to meet expectations. Regarding the pork quality measurements, only the drip losses in the control and the SC were significantly different (4.45% vs. 2.59%, p < 0.01) after 10 days of storage. There were no significant differences between the two types of refrigerator in terms of the other measurements. Additionally, the overall acceptability of the pork loin did not vary significantly between the control and the SC when the sensory evaluation was performed. Therefore, a commercial SC could prove beneficial in terms of water holding capacity during the short-term storage of meat. Further research should be performed to evaluate quality changes that occur during long-term storage of meat in SC s and evaluate a wide range of meat, such as beef and chicken.
Keywords
Supercooling; Short-term storage; Pork; Drip loss;
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