• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.397-404
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• 2004

Turkey thigh meats with skin were ground twice through a 3-mm plate and patties were prepared. Patties were cooked using 5 different methods(oven cooking, pan frying, oil deep frying, boiling, and microwaving) to an internal temperature of 85${\sim}90^{\circ}C$ and packaged in either oxygen permeable PVC zipperbags or oxygen impermeable PVDC bags. The samples were analyzed for thiobarbituric acid reactive substances(TBARS) and cholesterol oxidation products(COPs) after storage at $4^{\circ}C$. The TBARS of cooked meat increased during the storage regardless of cooking methods, vacuum packaged thigh meat produced less TBARS and COPs than the aerobically packaged samples. At the beginning of storage, aerobically packaged meat cooked by boiling method produced higher TBARS than that of others. However, the TBARS of microwaved meat with vacuum packaging increased rapidly after 3 days of storage at $4^{\circ}C$. The amount of total COPs in cooked thigh meat increased linearly with storage time. The level of total COPs in aerobically packaged cooked meat was higher than the vacuum-packaged meat. Microwave produced higher level of total COPs in meat than other cooking methods during storage.