Meat quality of zebu and crossbred

Authors

  • Braulio Crisanto Carvalho da Cruz
  • Cristiane Leal dos Santos Cruz
  • Christian Albert Carvalho da Cruz

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Abstract

Brazil has the largest commercial cattle herd in the world, surpassing 200 million head (IBGE, 2006), but the meat quality is still lagging behind, knowing that the consumer market today is more demanding, it becomes necessary to improve some parameters related to obtain a better piece of meat, such as tenderness, color, texture and marbling. In this respect the meat quality of crossbred beef is higher than zebu. The objective of this study was to evaluate factors influencing meat quality of zebu and crossbred.

Published

2015-09-17

Issue

Section

Produção animal

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