Effect of irradiation and packaging conditions after cooking on the formation of cholesterol and lipid oxidation products in meats during storage;

摘要

The effect of irradiation and packaging conditions on the content of cholesterol oxidation products (COPs) and lipid oxidation in cooked turkey, beef and pork during storage was studied. Ground turkey leg, beef and pork were cooked, packaged either in oxygen-permeable or oxygen-impermeable bags, and irradiated at 0 or 4.5 kGy. Lipid oxidation and COPs were determined after 0 and 7 days of storage at 4 deg.C. Packaging of cooked meat was more important than irradiation in developing COPs and lipid oxi- dation in cooked meats during storage. 7α -Hydroxycholesterol. 7β-hydroxycholesterol. β-epoxide, and 7-ketocholesterol were among the major COPs formed in cooked turkey, beef and pork after storage, and their amounts increased dramatically during the 7-day storage in aerobic conditions. Irradiation had no significant effects on the amounts of any of the COPs found in cooked turkey and beef, but increased (P< 0.05) the amounts of α- plus 7β-hydroxycholcsterol, 6-epoxide, 7-ketocholesterol, and total COPs in aerobically packaged cooked pork. The amounts of COPs and lipid oxidation products (TBARS) closely related to the proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids in meat. The results indicated that the composition of fats in meat is important on the oxidation rates of lipids and cholesterol, and packaging is far more important than irradiation in the formation of COPs and lipid oxidation in cooked meat.