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Meat quality assessment using biophysical methods Credit seminar -2 Major advisor Dr. B.B. Nayak, Principal Scientist Post Harvest Technology, CIFE, Mumbai . Presented by Naresh Kumar Mehta (PHT-PA01-04) Ph.D. (Batch: 2011-14), Post Harvest Technology CIFE, Mumbai .

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Meat quality assessment using biophysical methods

Credit seminar -2

Major advisorDr. B.B. Nayak,

Principal ScientistPost Harvest Technology, CIFE,

Mumbai .

Presented by

Naresh Kumar Mehta(PHT-PA01-04)

Ph.D. (Batch: 2011-14), Post Harvest Technology

CIFE, Mumbai .

• Factor influencing the meat properties are related to

breed, age and sex.

• Meat toughness depends mainly on MFP and

conjunctive tissue.

• MFP structure influenced by zoo-technical conditions.

‘Greenwood et al., 2007 and Gondret et al., 2005 studied

on myofibril types the lamb in and out door rearing.’

Introduction

• Biophysical methods to measure meat component

properties directly or calculate them indirectly by using

obvious correlations.

• These techniques function on the basis three important

traits of food i.e. texture, appearance and nutritional

aspects

• Water content ≈ physical properties because it is

connected with juiciness and with pale, soft and

exsudative (PSE) and dark firm dry (DFD) defects.

• These defects are more precisely related to water

holding capacity (WHC).

Why does need arise?

• Chemical indices- time consuming

• Sensory indices - perceptional

• To obtain reliable information on meat quality throughout

the production process

• To reduce cumbersome data handling

• To be fast, accurate and non invasive techniques for

predicting technological and sensory qualities.

• Majority existing techniques are invasive

Biophysical methods

Mechanical methods,

Optical methods,

X-ray measurements

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)

measurements

1. Mechanical methods

• Instrumental methods –

• TA measurements(Compression, piercing)

• Rheometry (shearing)

• Ultrasound methods- analyzing the acoustic parameters of

wave propagating makes it possible to assess the

characteristic of the propagating medium and to characterize

it.

Monin (1998) reported that ultrasonic measurements give a

good prediction of meat texture on live animals and whole

carcass, while at the same time being inexpensive and non-

invasive.

2.Optical methods

a. Spectroscopic methodsI. Infrared spectroscopy

II. Raman spectroscopy

III. Visible spectroscopy and colorimetry

IV. Fluorescence spectroscopy

b. ImagingI. Microscopic imaging

II. Optical microscopy

III. Histology

IV. Confocal laser scanning microscopy

V. Electron microscopy

VI. Scanning electron microscopy

VII. Transmission electron microscopy

VIII. Macroscopic imaging

I. Infrared spectroscopy

• Principle-Infrared spectroscopy (800-2500nm) is based on the

principle that the chemical bonds in organic molecules absorb oremit infrared light when their vibrational state changes.

• Uddin et al.,2005 used for fresh and thawed fish to control offraudulent freezing-thawing cycle.

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ii. Raman spectroscopy

• Raman spectroscopy is also a vibrational spectroscopic techniqueused in condensed matter physics, biomedical applications andchemistry to study vibrational, rotational, and other low-frequencymodes in a system.

• It relies on inelastic scattering of monochromatic light, usually froma laser in the visible, IR, or near-UV spectra. It gives similar butcomplementary information to IR spectroscopy.

iii.Visible spectroscopy and colorimetry

• It covers the visible spectra and the CIE

L*a*b*colour space as objective and non-

destructive tools for tissue characterization.

• Fish muscle absorbs different components

of light differently, depending on the

composition and state of the muscles.

• spectra change depending on the degree of

spoilage during chilled or frozen storage.

• Early detection of pale, soft and exsudative

(PSE) meat is a major potential application

of visible spectroscopy and colorimetry for

both pork and poultry meat

Figure 10A is showing a colour picture of the fillet composed of three colours - red (641 nm), green (552 nm) and blue (458 nm). This is a colour composition that is close to what we actually can see with our eyes. Figure 10B, is focusing on oxy- and deoxyhaemoglobin (572 nm) and blood is visualised as dark spots. Figure 10C, is focusing on methaemoglobin (630 nm) and blood is visualised as luminous spots.

iv. Fluorescence spectroscopy

• is a type of electromagnetic spectroscopy which analyzes

fluorescence from a sample.

• For a well ordered biological tissue, fluorescence is

anisotropic and this anisotropy tends to disappear with

structural degradation.

• De-structuring processes like ageing, grounding or heating

have been successfully investigated.

• Tryptophan is an important intrinsic fluorescent probe that can

be used to assess the nature of the tryptophan

microenvironment.

• Proteins that lack tryptophan can be attached to an extrinsic

fluorophore probe.

2.i Imaging

Microscopic imaging

Optical microscopy-

• Optical microscopy offers the simplest way to obtain

magnified images of biological tissues.

• This field covers a large range of techniques that have been

used for years to characterize meat and meat product

structures.

• Techniques can be classed simply depending on whether

samples must be prepared in thin cuts or not.

• Detection of A and I band.

ii.Histology• Histology is a widely used as a tool for controlling meat

texture in food science.

• The technique may or may not require tissue staining with

specific dyes.

• Histology always needs very thin sample cuts.

• Fiber disorganization, fiber misalignment and increase in

fibers spacing have been analyzed.

iii.Confocal laser scanning microscopy

• is a fluorescence technique for obtaining high-longitudinalresolution optical images.

• Evolution of the more traditional fluorescence microscopy.

• Key feature being the ability to produce point-by-point in-focus images of thick specimens.

• Allowing 3D reconstructions of complex tissues.

• Because this technique depends on fluorescence, samplesusually need to be treated with fluorescent dyes to makeobjects.

• visible, but contrary to the histological techniques, there isno need for thin cuts

iv. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) • SEM gives images with great depth-of-field yielding a

characteristic 3D display that provides greater insight into thesurface structure of a biological sample

• Cryofixation, dehydration, embedding and staining

Fig. 6. SEM (200) images showing transverse section of raw and cooked muscle after heating at 121.1 1C for different time periods. The horizontal dotted bars indicate 150 mm. A, C, E: raw, 20 and 120 min cooked salmon muscle; B, D, F: raw, 20 and 120 min cooked chicken muscle

v. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

• In TEM electrons are passed through the sample.

• Resolution is higher than in SEM and the sample can be stained with heavy metals to improve image quality

vi. X-ray measurements• X-rays have long been used in medicine and others areas.

• principle is to obtain a measurement of the attenuation of the penetrating energy.

• Different materials have different attenuation properties, and so depending on the level of penetrating energy.

• possible to obtain quantitative measurements, in particular for bone, lean meat and fat.

• Multiple technology tools using X-ray beams at different energy levels have been developed, making it possible to discriminate fat, bone and lean meat according to the energy attenuation measured.

vii.Nuclear magnetic resonance

• NMR measurement of water proton relaxation times gives

information on the dynamics of water.

• Based on Water content and water mobility samples are

differentiated

• Significant correlations have been proposed between

measured vale and relaxation time for meat quality

parameters such as pH WHC or losses to cooking.

• The high costs involved do make it currently difficult to

consider installing NMR systems on production lines.

conclusion• All the results presented here point out the wealth of potential

for using biophysical methods in meat quality investigations.

• The field of research is vast, and meat scientists still have yearsof exciting work ahead before offering to meat industry acheap, robust, reliable, portable, rapid, universal andmagnificent meat quality sensor.

Thank you