Muscle lipid composition in bulls from 15 European breeds
Natalia Sevane
(1)
,
G. Nute
(2)
,
Carlos Sanudo
(3)
,
J. Cortes
(4)
,
J. Canon
(4)
,
J.L. Williams
(5)
,
S. Dunner
(1)
,
P. Alberti
(6)
,
Valérie Amarger
(7)
,
Simon S. Boitard
(8)
,
M.L. Checa
(4)
,
M. Christensen
(9)
,
A. Crisa
(9)
,
Didier Delourme
(7)
,
Per Ertbjerg
(10)
,
S. Failla
(11)
,
David Garcia
(4)
,
S. Gigli
(11)
,
Jean-François J.-F. Hocquette
(12)
,
Hubert H. Levéziel
(7)
,
Brigitte B. Mangin
(13)
,
Cinzia Marchitelli
(14)
,
M.E. Miranda
(4)
,
J.L. Olleta
(3)
,
Begoña Panea
(3)
,
R. Pérez
(4)
,
N. Razzaq
(15)
,
Gilles G. Renand
(16)
,
A. Valentini
(14)
1
UCM -
Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid]
2 Division of Farm Animal Science
3 University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza]
4 Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria
5 Parco Tecnologico Padano
6 CITA - Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón
7 UMR GMA - Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Animale
8 GenPhySE - Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage
9 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
10 Department of Food Science
11 Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia
12 UMRH - Unité Mixte de Recherche sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213
13 Unité mixte de recherche interactions plantes-microorganismes
14 Département de Production Animale
15 The Roslin Institute
16 GABI - Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative
2 Division of Farm Animal Science
3 University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza]
4 Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria
5 Parco Tecnologico Padano
6 CITA - Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón
7 UMR GMA - Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Animale
8 GenPhySE - Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage
9 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
10 Department of Food Science
11 Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia
12 UMRH - Unité Mixte de Recherche sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213
13 Unité mixte de recherche interactions plantes-microorganismes
14 Département de Production Animale
15 The Roslin Institute
16 GABI - Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative
Valérie Amarger
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- IdHAL : valerie-amarger
- ORCID : 0000-0001-9258-6675
- IdRef : 081794843
Simon S. Boitard
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- IdHAL : simon-boitard
- ORCID : 0000-0002-2499-5052
- IdRef : 114957460
Jean-François J.-F. Hocquette
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- IdHAL : jean-francois-hocquette
- ORCID : 0000-0003-2409-3881
- IdRef : 079209173
Résumé
Cattle meat provides essential nutrients necessary for a balanced diet and health preservation. Besides nutritional quality, consumers' preferences are related to specific attributes such as tenderness, taste and flavour. The present study characterizes the fatty acid composition of beef, which is an important factor in both nutritional and quality values, in 15 European cattle breeds fed a similar diet and reared in five countries (United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy and Spain). The effect of possible slight differences on diet composition which might have occurred between countries were included in the breed effect which confounds country, diet, slaughter house and slaughter day as all individuals of a same breed were managed simultaneously. The wide range of breeds studied and the significant differences on lipid profile described here provide a broad characterization of beef meat, which allows giving a better response to the variety of consumers' preferences. Regarding meat health benefits, the groups that stand out are: the double-muscled animals, which displayed lower total fat, lower proportion of saturated (SFA) and monounsaturated (MUFA) fatty acids, and a higher proportion of polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids; and Limousin and Charolais breeds with a significantly higher conversion of 18:3n-3 PUFA to the long chain 22:6n-3 PUFA.