title: [Nutritional quality and acceptability of a product formulated with mechanically deboned poultry meat, plasma and bovine red cell].
abstract: The purpose of this research was to evaluate the nutritional quality and acceptability of a meat product formulated with mechanically deboned poultry meat (40%), bovine plasma (40%) and bovine red cells (3%) as major ingredients. Proteins, fat, humidity and ash were determined by AOAC procedure, iron and calcium by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry and essential amino acids by HPLC. Biological evaluation was performed using digestibility and PER procedures. To evaluate the acceptability (flavor, color and odor) of the product were used 277 children. Results indicated that 100 g of the formulated meat product contain 10.7 g of proteins, 4.4 g of fat, 68.6 g of humidity, 2.9 g of ash, 4.9 mg of iron, 46.6 mg of calcium. Essential amino acids are above the FAO requirements for a highly nutritional protein digestibility (92.4%) and PER (2.18). Acceptability was 91.3% for flavor, 81.2% for color and 92.4% for odor. The high nutritional quality and acceptability along with the low cost make this meat product suitable for government social programs.
authors.affiliation: La Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
authors.forename: Betty
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Benítez
authors.forename: Anangelina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Archile
authors.forename: Lisbeth
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rangel
authors.forename: Mariela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bracho
authors.forename: Maigualida
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernández
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Márquez
mesh_terms: D000601:Amino Acids, Essential / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood; D002417:Cattle; D002645:Chickens; D002648:Child; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005260:Female; D005511:Food Handling; D005518:Food Preferences; D005526:Food, Formulated / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008461:Meat Products / Q000032:analysis; D009753:Nutritive Value; D010949:Plasma
chemical_list: D000601:Amino Acids, Essential