• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.III
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• pp.521-524
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• 2000

Nearinfra-red(NIR) reflectance NIR a spectra (400 to 2,100 nm) were collected on 32 beef samples to find feasibility of predicting beef tenderness. The study to predict beef tenderness was accomplished with the stepwise second differential data of the collected NIR spectra. Beef tenderness was measured by Warner-Bratzler(WB) shear force using a Universal Testing Machine(UTM). After modeling the relation between Warner-Bratzler shear force and NIR spectrum of 19 samples among the 32 beef samples, the verification was carried out through predicting the other 13 samples. The SEC and R$^2$ values in the prediction equation were 9.07(N) and 0.6463, respectively. The SEP and R$^2$ were 14.8(N) and 0.7082 (wave length 552 nm, 1988 nm) respectively. The result implied that it was possible to predict the beef tenderness using NIR spectrum and that the tenderness could be predicted non-destructively in real time.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.723-743
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• 2022

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.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.216-223
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• 1998

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of the tenderness for the vacuum chilled, the air-frozen or the rechilled Holstein beef loin. The vacuum packaged beef was stored at 1$^{\circ}C$ and the air-packaged beef was stored at -20$^{\circ}C$ for 60 days. The rechilled beef was restored for 3 days at 1$^{\circ}C$ by using the vacuum chilled or the air-frozen beef. Hardness and chewiness of the vacuum chilled beef were better than those of the air-frozen beef. Hardness and chewiness were improved significantly(p＜0.05) after the 40 days storage for the vacuum chilled beef, but there was no significant improvement for the air-frozen beef during the 60 days storage. By the rechilling process, tenderness and myofibrillar fragmentation index of the vacuum chilled and air-frozen beef improved. Especially those were improved significantly(p＜0.05) in the vacuum chilled beef after the 20 days storage, and in the air-frozen beef after the 40 and 60 days storage.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.921-932
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• 2006

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.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제34권11호
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• pp.1849-1858
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• 2021

Objective: Tenderness is a very complex feature, and the process of its formation is very complicated and not fully understood. Its diversification is one of the most important problems of beef production, as a result beef aging is widely used to improve tenderness as it is believed to provide a homogeneous product to consumers. While few studies have evaluated the muscle structure properties in relation to tenderness from early post-mortem, there little to no information available on how the muscle nanostructure of beef carcasses changes during post-mortem ageing to determine the appropriate aging time for acceptable tenderness. Methods: Muscle nanostructure (myofibril diameter [MYD], myofibril spacing [MYS], muscle fibre diameter [MFD], muscle fibre spacing [MFS], and sarcomere length [SL]), meat tenderness and cooking loss [CL]) were measured on 20 A2 longissimus muscles of Bonsmara, Beefmaster, Hereford, and Simbra at 45_mins, 1, 3, and 7 days post-slaughter. Muscle nanostructure was measured using a scanning electron microscope, while tenderness was measured using Warner Bratzler shear force. Results: At 45 minutes post-slaughter, breed affected MYD and MYS only, while at 24_hrs it also affected MFD and MFS. On day 3 breed effected MFS and SL, while on day 7 breed effected tenderness only. As the muscles matured, both MYD and MYS decreased while CL increased, and the muscles became tender. There was no uniformity on muscle texture features (surface structure, fibre separation, muscle contraction, and relaxation) throughout the ageing period. Conclusion: Meat tenderness can be directly linked to breed related myofibril structure changes during aging in particular the MYD, spacing between myofibrils and their interaction; while the MFD, spacing between muscle fibres, SL, and CL explain the non-uniformity in beef tenderness.

• 한국축산식품학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국축산식품학회 2006년도 정기총회 및 제37차 춘계 국제학술발표대회
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• pp.90-93
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• 2006

Our results indicate that muscle temperature and glycolysis rate of pre-rigor could be closely related to Hanwoo beef tenderness at 24 h postmortem and have potential to predict beef tenderness at 24 h postmortem.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.343-346
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• 1995

The inclusion of crude ginger rhizome (zingiber officinale) extract at 0.5 to 1.0% (v/w) in the marination of marginally acceptable lean beef improved meat tenderness by 20-30% in the absence of 2% salt and by 35-45% in the presence of 2% salt. Ginger extract also retarded the development of rancidity and increased shelf-life of precooked lean beef two-fold in saran-wrap (no vacuum) storage at $4^{\circ}C$. Ginger rhizome improves the palatability and acceptability of lean beef from carcasses of marginal quality. It is particularly beneficial for the preparation of pre-cooked ready-to-eat beef products that are not vacuum-packaged.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.428-437
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• 2008

To identify transcriptional markers for beef traits related to meat tenderness and moisture, we measured the transcriptome of the Longissimus dorsi skeletal muscle in 10 Korean native cattle (KNC). We analyzed the correlation between the beef transcriptome and measurements of four different beef traits, shear force (SF), water holding capacity (WHC), cooking loss (CL), and loin eye area (LEA). We obtained non-overlapping and unique panels of genes showing strong correlations (${\mid}r{\mid}$ > 0.8) with SF, WHC, CL, and LEA, respectively. Functional studies of these genes indicated that SF was mainly related to energy metabolism, and LEA to rRNA processing. Interestingly, our data suggested that WHC is influenced by protein metabolism. Overall, the skeletal muscle transcriptome pointed to the importance of energy and protein metabolism in determining meat quality after the aging process. The panels of transcripts for beef traits may be useful for predicting meat tenderness and moisture.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.197-208
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• 2019

The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of sensory quality traits of cooked beef to fresh meat quality and histochemical characteristics, especially muscle bundle traits, in the longissimus thoracis muscle of Hanwoo steers. Cooking loss negatively correlated with softness, initial tenderness, chewiness, rate of breakdown (RB), and amount of perceptible residue (AR) after chewing (p<0.05), and drip loss showed negative correlation with RB and AR (p<0.05). All the attributes of tenderness exhibited negative correlation with the Warner-Bratzler shear force value (p<0.05). Marbling score and the intramuscular fat (IMF) content showed positive correlation with all the organoleptic characteristics, including tenderness attributes, juiciness, and flavor (p<0.05). Regarding histochemical characteristics, muscle fiber size did not have a significant correlation with all the sensory quality traits, although the area percentage of type I fiber was related with softness, initial tenderness, and chewiness (p<0.05). On the contrary, the characteristics of muscle bundle were related to all the sensory tenderness attributes (p<0.05), and the sensory tenderness increased with smaller muscle bundle size (p<0.05). These results suggest that the IMF content and bundle characteristics can be used as indicators for explaining the variations in sensory tenderness in well-marbled beef.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.123-128
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• 1996

한우육과 수입우육의 연한정도를 비교하기 위하여 등심육과 양지육에 대하여 시간-강도 분석을 실시한결과는 다음과 같다. 등심육은 양지육에 비해 더 연한 결과를 보였으며,등심육과 수입 양지육 간의 유의적인 차이는 볼 수 없었다(p<0.05). Rx에서 한우 등심 육이 수입 등심육보다 더 큰 수치를 나타냈고, 양지육 에서는 수입우육이 더 크게 평가되었다(p<0.05). lmax는 등심육에서는 한우육이 더 높은 경향을 보였고, 양지육에서는 수입우육의 연한정도가 유의적으로더 높다고 평가되었다(p < 0.05). Dur은 등심육에서는 한우육보다 수입우육이 씹을수록 더 오래까지 지속되 었으나(p<0.05) 양지육에서는 오히려 수입우육보다 는 한우육이 더 오래까지 지속되는 경향만을 보였다. 한편 AUC는 한우 등심육이 수입 등심육보다 유의적 으로 낮은 수치를 나타내어 전체적으로 한우육이 더 연하게 평가되었다(p .0.05). 한우육과 수입우육의 연 한정도 비교에 시간-강도 분석의 이용으로 시료간의 저작 과정 동안의 변화를 연구할 수 있었다.