Department of Food Science and Technology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Murcia, Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
IRTA-Monells, Product Quality Program, Finca Camps i Armet, 17121 Monells, Girona, Spain.
Meat Sci. 2023 Jul;201:109171. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2023.109171. Epub 2023 Mar 28.
Pork production has undergone a shift towards the rearing of entire male pigs, however, its meat might carry with the presence of boar taint and it would be considered "unfit for human consumption". To offer a new alternative to the pork sector tailored to the needs of consumers, a viable option would be the use of edible spiced gelatin films to help minimize boar taint and improve its marketability. The responses of 120 regular meat consumers to entire pork with high levels of boar taint and castrated pork free of boar taint, both coated with spiced gelatin films were evaluated. They showed a similar response between entire and castrated male pork coated with spiced films, regardless of whether consumers usually detected unpleasant odours (as farm/animal) when consuming pork or not. Therefore, the new spiced films offer a new range of products to consumers as they contribute to the improvement of the sensory quality of entire male pork, especially among consumers who tend to buy new products.
猪肉生产已经转向饲养整头公猪，然而，其肉质可能带有公猪异味，被认为“不适宜人类食用”。为了向猪肉行业提供一种针对消费者需求的新选择，一种可行的方法是使用可食用的加香料明胶薄膜来帮助最大限度地减少公猪异味并提高其市场销售性。对 120 名普通肉类消费者对高公猪异味的整头猪肉和去势无公猪异味的猪肉的反应进行了评估，这两种猪肉都涂有加香料的明胶薄膜。结果表明，无论消费者在食用猪肉时是否通常能察觉到令人不快的气味（来自农场/动物），涂有香料薄膜的整头和去势公猪之间的反应相似。因此，这种新型加香料明胶薄膜为消费者提供了一系列新产品，因为它们有助于改善整头公猪的感官质量，尤其是对那些倾向于购买新产品的消费者而言。
