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Effect of combined heat and high-pressure treatments on the texture of chicken breast muscle (Pectoralis fundus)

Zamri, A. I., Ledward, D. A. and Frazier, R. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4313-0019 (2006) Effect of combined heat and high-pressure treatments on the texture of chicken breast muscle (Pectoralis fundus). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 54 (8). pp. 2992-2996. ISSN 0021-8561

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1021/jf051791x

Abstract/Summary

Commercially supplied chicken breast muscle was subjected to simultaneous heat and pressure treatments. Treatment conditions ranged from ambient temperature to 70 °C and from 0.1 to 800 MPa, respectively, in various combinations. Texture profile analysis (TPA) of the treated samples was performed to determine changes in muscle hardness. At treatment temperatures up to and including 50 °C, heat and pressure acted synergistically to increase muscle hardness. However, at 60 and 70 °C, hardness decreased following treatments in excess of 200 MPa. TPA was performed on extracted myofibrillar protein gels that after treatment under similar conditions revealed similar effects of heat and pressure. Differential scanning calorimetry analysis of whole muscle samples revealed that at ambient pressure the unfolding of myosin was completed at 60 °C, unlike actin, which completely denatured only above 70 °C. With simultaneous pressure treatment at >200 MPa, myosin and actin unfolded at 20 °C. Unfolding of myosin and actin could be induced in extracted myofibrillar protein with simultaneous treatment at 200 MPa and 40 °C. Electrophoretic analysis indicated high pressure/temperature regimens induced disulfide bonding between myosin chains.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences > Food Research Group
ID Code:7927
Publisher:American Chemical Society

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