title: Antioxidant enzyme activities are affected by salt content and temperature and influence muscle lipid oxidation during dry-salted bacon processing.
abstract: Fresh pork bacon belly was used as material and manufactured into dry-salted bacon through salting and drying-ripening. During processing both oxidative stability and antioxidant enzyme stability were evaluated by assessing peroxide value (PV), thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and activities of catalase, glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), and their correlations were also analysed. The results showed that all antioxidant enzyme activities decreased (p<0.05) until the end of process; GSH-Px was the most unstable one followed by catalase. Antioxidant enzyme activities were negatively correlated with TBARS (p<0.05), but the correlations were decreased with increasing process temperature. Salt showed inhibitory effect on all antioxidant enzyme activities and was concentration dependent. These results indicated that when process temperature and salt content were low at the same time during dry-salted bacon processing, antioxidant enzymes could effectively control lipid oxidation.
authors.affiliation: National R&D Center for Egg Processing, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, PR China. guofeng.Jin@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Guofeng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Lichao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jianhao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Meihu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000737:chemistry*; D002374:Catalase / Q000737:chemistry; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D005511:Food Handling / Q000379:methods*; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000737:chemistry; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D008461:Meat Products / Q000032:analysis*; D009132:Muscles / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000201:enzymology; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000032:analysis*; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000737:chemistry; D013552:Swine; D013696:Temperature; D017392:Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D008055:Lipids; D017392:Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D002374:Catalase; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase
keywords: Antioxidant enzyme activities; Dry-salted bacon; Salt content; TBARS; Temperature