Razmaitė Violeta, Šveistienė Rūta, Račkauskaitė Alma, Jatkauskienė Virginija
Animal Science Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, R. Žebenkos 12, LT-82317 Baisogala, Lithuania.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Oct 1;11(10):2880. doi: 10.3390/ani11102880.
The objective of the study was to assess the influence of gender, age, and carcass weight on the properties of meat from adult horses slaughtered in Lithuania. of twenty-six obsolescent horses from 3 to 21 years of age were used in the experiment. Gender appeared to affect the horse meat properties. Stallions demonstrated ( < 0.01 and < 0.05, respectively) lower content of dry matter and also considerably lower ( < 0.001 and < 0.01) intramuscular fat content compared with mares and geldings and higher ( < 0.01) cholesterol content compared with mares. The meat of stallions showed the highest pH; however, a significant ( < 0.01) difference was obtained only in comparison with mares. Meat lightness (L*) and yellowness (b*) of stallions were lower ( < 0.05) compared with geldings. Meat toughness of stallions was also lower ( < 0.01) than the meat of mares and geldings. The highest ( < 0.05 and < 0.01, respectively) proportion of total polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), higher ( < 0.05) and more favorable PUFA/SFA ratio, and also the highest ( < 0.05) but least favorable n-6/n-3 PUFA ratio, were detected in the muscles of stallions compared with mares and geldings. The differences in horse ages did not exhibit any effect on the properties of . Despite the age differences at the decline of horse life, the properties of the horse meat exhibited good quality and showed that horse meat is potentially highly beneficial to human health.
该研究的目的是评估性别、年龄和胴体重量对在立陶宛屠宰的成年马肉品质的影响。实验使用了26匹3至21岁的淘汰马。性别似乎会影响马肉的品质。与母马和阉马相比，种马的干物质含量较低（分别为P<0.01和P<0.05），肌内脂肪含量也显著更低（P<0.001和P<0.01），而与母马相比，种马的胆固醇含量更高（P<0.01）。种马的肉pH值最高；然而，仅与母马相比时才获得显著差异（P<0.01）。与阉马相比，种马的肉亮度（L*）和黄度（b*）更低（P<0.05）。种马的肉嫩度也低于母马和阉马（P<0.01）。与母马和阉马相比，种马肌肉中总多不饱和脂肪酸（PUFA）的比例最高（分别为P<0.05和P<0.01），PUFA/SFA比值更高（P<0.05）且更有利，n-6/n-3 PUFA比值最高（P<0.05）但最不利。马的年龄差异对马肉品质没有任何影响。尽管马在生命末期存在年龄差异，但马肉品质良好，表明马肉对人类健康可能具有极大益处。
