title: Finishing steers with diets based on corn, high-tannin sorghum or a mix of both: Color and lipid oxidation in beef.
abstract: We tested the hypothesis that feeding high-tannin sorghum (HTS) to steers would produce beef more resistant to oxidative deterioration. We observed lower thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) in Gluteus medius of steers fed HTS before it was displayed (P=0.028), which could be explained by a reduced response to stress in these animals. While steers finished with corn and corn+HTS had elevated plasma cortisol at the end of the feeding period (P=0.047 and 0.093, respectively), animals fed HTS and corn+vitamin E did not. However, feeding HTS increased the rate of discoloration and TBARS accumulation after aerobic display of Longissimus lumborum and Gluteus medius. Diet did not affect the activity of oxidation-related enzymes and fatty acid composition of muscle. The accelerated rate of lipid oxidation during display of beef could be partially explained by a numerically lower concentration of tocopherols in the tissue.
authors: Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Departamento de Ciencias Animales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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