title: High pressure applied to frozen ham at different process stages. 2. Effect on the sensory attributes and on the colour characteristics of dry-cured ham.
abstract: This paper describes the effect of high pressure (400MPa and 600MPa) applied to frozen hams at early stages of the dry-cured ham process: green hams (GH) and hams at the end of the resting stage (ERS), on the appearance, some texture and flavour parameters and on the instrumental colour characteristics of dry-cured hams. Pressurized hams showed slightly lower visual colour intensity than the control ones. In general, pressurization did not have a significant effect on the flavour characteristics of the final product. The 600-MPa hams from the ERS process showed significantly lower crumbliness and higher fibrousness scores than the control and the 400-MPa hams. However, none of these differences were enough to affect the overall sensory quality of the hams negatively. Regarding instrumental colour characteristics (L(∗)a(∗)b(∗)), an increase in lightness was observed in the biceps femoris muscle from GH hams pressurized at 400MPa and 600MPa but not in the ERS hams.
authors: Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Centre de Tecnologia de la Carn, Granja Camps i Armet s/n, 17121 Monells, Girona, Spain.
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