Handbook of Meat, Poultry and Seafood Quality

Preface viii Contributors x PART ONE: QUALITY ASPECTS OF PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN 1 1 Chemical and Biochemical Aspects of Color in Muscle Foods 3 José Ángel Pérez-Alvarez and Juana Fernández-López 2 Sensory Methodology of Muscle Foods 25 Patti C. Coggins 3 Attributes of Muscle Foods: Color, Texture, Flavor 35 Patti C. Coggins 4 Recent Developments in Flavor Measurements 45 Jean-Luc Le Quéré PART TWO: FLAVOR 63 5 Sensory Characterization 65 Karen L. Bett-Garber 6 Chemical Characterization 76 Neil C. Da Costa and Sanja Eri 7 Process Flavors 91 Hyung Hee Baek 8 Savory Flavors 105 Christoph Cerny 9 Off Flavors and Rancidity in Foods 127 Ronald B. Pegg and Fereidoon Shahidi 10 Land Animal Products 140 Terri Boylston 11 Marine Animal and Plant Products 156 Narendra Narain and Maria Lúcia Nunes PART THREE: BEEF QUALITY 173 12 Sensory Evaluation of Beef Flavor 175 Rhonda K. Miller 13 Beef Quality and Tainting 192 Leo M.L. Nollet 14 Microbiological and Sensory Properties of Beef 199 Jack Thomas 15 Quality Measurements in Beef 208 Susan Brewer 16 Shelf Life of Meats 232 Leo M.L. Nollet 17 Packaging and Freezing of Beef as Related to Sensory Properties 246 Leo M.L. Nollet PART FOUR: PORK QUALITY 255 18 Sensory Evaluation of Pork Flavor 257 Veronika Válková 19 Pork Taint 280 William Benjy Mikel 20 Microbiological and Sensory Properties of Fresh and Frozen Pork Products 292 Lisa McKee 21 Shelf Life of Fresh and Frozen Pork 308 Sancho Bañon Arias 22 Packaging of (Fresh and Frozen) Pork 321 Maurice O'Sullivan and Joseph P. Kerry PART FIVE: POULTRY QUALITY 341 23 Poultry Meat Flavor 343 Paul L. Dawson and Nick Spinelli 24 Poultry Quality and Tainting 360 María de Lourdes Pérez-Chabela and Alfonso Totosaus 25 Microbiological and Sensory Properties of Fresh and Frozen Poultry 373 Lisa McKee 26 Quality Indicators in Poultry Products 390 Lisa Mckee, Elizabeth Cobb, and Sarah Padilla 27 Shelf Life of Fresh and Frozen Poultry 410 María de Lourdes Pérez-Chabela 28 Packaging of Fresh and Frozen Poultry 423 Alfonso Totosaus and V. Kuri PART SIX: SEAFOOD QUALITY 435 29 Quality Index Methods 437 Grethe Hyldig, Allan Bremner, Emilia Martinsdóttir, and Rian Schelvis 30 Sensory Quality of Fish 459 Grethe Hyldig 31 Quality of Frozen Fish 479 Alex Augusto Gonçalves, Jette Nielsen, and Flemming Jessen 32 Packaging for Chilled and Frozen Seafood 510 Alex Augusto Gonçalves Index 546