Effect of vitamin E on improving fresh pork quality in Berkshire- and Hampshire-sired pigs1
Hasty, J. L., Heugten, E., See, M. T., & Larick, D. K. (2002, December 1). Journal of Animal Science, Vol. 80, pp. 3230–3237.
MeSH headings : Adipose Tissue / anatomy & histology; Adipose Tissue / metabolism; Animals; Antioxidants / pharmacology; Body Composition / drug effects; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Eating; Female; Genotype; Male; Meat / standards; Muscle, Skeletal / anatomy & histology; Muscle, Skeletal / metabolism; Random Allocation; Sex Characteristics; Swine / genetics; Swine / growth & development; Swine / physiology; Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances / analysis; Vitamin E / pharmacology; Weight Gain / drug effects
topics (OpenAlex): Meat and Animal Product Quality; Animal Nutrition and Physiology; Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
TL;DR:
Vitamin E supplementation was not effective in improving fresh meat quality in genotypes with poor or superior meat quality traits and had no effects on carcass composition.
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