PMID- 37467681
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230809
LR  - 20230809
IS  - 1873-4138 (Electronic)
IS  - 0309-1740 (Linking)
VI  - 204
DP  - 2023 Oct
TI  - Adding value to beef portion steaks through measuring individual marbling.
PG  - 109279
LID - S0309-1740(23)00185-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.meatsci.2023.109279 [doi]
AB  - The current Meat Standards Australia (MSA) and AUS-MEAT grading system assumes 
      that marbling through the M. longissmus thoracis et lumborum (loin) is 
      represented by the score of the grading site. However, studies have indicated 
      marbling varies within the beef loin, but commercially individual portion steaks 
      are not graded for marbling. Cube rolls from a wide phenotypic marbling range 
      (n = 102) were collected and sliced into 15 mm portion steaks, which were imaged 
      with a Marel vision scanner to obtain objective marbling scores. Additionally, 
      three locations (grading site, middle, cranial) across each cube roll were tested 
      for intramuscular fat percentage (IMF%). The effect of steak location 
      demonstrated marked variation across the length of the cube roll for both vision 
      scanner marbling scores and IMF%. This variation in vision scanner marbling 
      scores, expressed in units of MSA marbling score, equated to 316 MSA units. This 
      work suggests an opportunity for individual portion marbling measurements and 
      segregation of individual portion cut steaks based upon their marbling levels.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Pannier, L
AU  - Pannier L
AD  - Murdoch University, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, 
      Western Australia 6150, Australia. Electronic address: l.pannier@murdoch.edu.au.
FAU - van de Weijer, T M
AU  - van de Weijer TM
AD  - Marel Meat B.V, Handelstraat 3, Boxmeer 5830AD, the Netherlands.
FAU - van der Steen, F T H J
AU  - van der Steen FTHJ
AD  - Marel Meat B.V, Handelstraat 3, Boxmeer 5830AD, the Netherlands.
FAU - Kranenbarg, R
AU  - Kranenbarg R
AD  - Marel Meat B.V, Handelstraat 3, Boxmeer 5830AD, the Netherlands.
FAU - Gardner, G E
AU  - Gardner GE
AD  - Murdoch University, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, 
      Western Australia 6150, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230710
PL  - England
TA  - Meat Sci
JT  - Meat science
JID - 101160862
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Cattle
MH  - *Red Meat
MH  - Meat/analysis
MH  - Australia
MH  - Muscle, Skeletal
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Grading site
OT  - Intramuscular fat
OT  - Marbling distribution
OT  - Portion steaks
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest None.
EDAT- 2023/07/20 01:07
MHDA- 2023/08/09 06:43
CRDT- 2023/07/19 18:07
PHST- 2023/03/08 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/06/29 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/07/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/08/09 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/07/20 01:07 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/07/19 18:07 [entrez]
AID - S0309-1740(23)00185-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.meatsci.2023.109279 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Meat Sci. 2023 Oct;204:109279. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2023.109279. Epub 2023 Jul 
      10.