title: Furosine as an index of heat treatment intensity in meat products: Its application to cooked ham.
abstract: Furosine, a product of acid hydrolysis of Amadori compounds, has been proposed as an index of the heat treament intensity in various food products. In this paper we suggest furosine as an index of heat treatment in pork-meat products as well. Furosine is not detectable in fresh raw pork muscle and in injected tumbled pork muscle, the latter being used for the production of cooked ham. Activation energy of furosine formation in raw muscle and tumbled muscle, in the temperature range of 70 °-90 °C, was 79.2 kJ/mole and 81.7 kJ/mole, respectively. Furosine concentration was assessed in cooked hams whose time-temperature profiles, with reference to the cooking and cooling processes, were well known, thus enabling the verification of the feasibility of its use in the evaluation of heat damage. The good correlation between the values found during this investigation and the values foreseen by kinetic calculation confirms that furosine can be used as an index of heat treatment intensity in the production of cooked ham.
authors: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Alimentari e Microbiologiche, Università di Milano, Via Celoria, 2, Milano, Italy.
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authors: Pompei
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authors: Spagnolello