›› 2012, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (12): 64-69.

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Effects of Leaves and Seeds of S.album on Meat Quality of Wenchang Chicken

WANG Yong-sheng1, LIU Yan-fen1, CAI Sheng2, LIU You1, LIU Ji1, LIU Xiao-jun1, LIU Shao-bin1, KONG Ling-zeng1   

  1. 1. Agricultural College, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China;
    2. Nanxing Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station of Leizhou City, Leizhou 524200, China
  • Received:2012-06-12 Online:2012-12-20 Published:2012-12-19

Abstract: The experiment was conducted to study the effects of S.album leaves and seeds on meat quality of Wenchang chicken.180 70-day-old Wenchang chickens were randomly allocated to 4 treatments. Each treatment contained 3 replicates,and 15 chickens per replicate. Chickens in the control group were fed basal diet, chickens in test group 1 to 3 were fed basal diet containing 8% fermented leaves and 1% seeds, 4% leaves and 1% seeds, 3% leaves and 2% seeds of S.album respectively. The results showed that compared with the control group, except for the test group 1 of leg muscle red degrees declined and brightness increased, the color of leg muscle in the test groups 1, 2, 3 tended to improve, lightness had the trend to reduce, the pH had no significant effect, the percentage of water and cooking loss tended to decrease, tenderness tended to increase. Compared with the control group, the thorax muscles of corrected IMP content of the test group 1 could significantly improve (P<0.05), the IMP content of breast could increase 9.2%(P>0.05),and the value of the K drcreased 26%(P>0.05). Compared with the control group, the C18∶1, C18∶2, UFA, EAA, free amino acids and flavour amino acids of the test group 1 tended to increase in thoracic muscles. The results indicated that fermented leaves and seeds of S.album supplementation in the diet had the trend to improve meat quality and flavour of Wenchang chicken.

Key words: S.album leaves; S.album seeds; Wenchang chicken; meat quality

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