Texture and quality of chicken sausage formulated with woody breast meat

Woody breast (WB) myopathy is a quality defect, afflicting a large portion of commercial broilers to some degree. The WB myopathy is commonly attributed to rapid bird growth and characterized by excessive fibrosis within the pectoralis major, which is thought to cause the palpably hardened texture o...

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Main Authors: Macc Rigdon, Alexander M. Stelzleni, Robert W. McKee, T. Dean Pringle, Brian Bowker, Hong Zhuang, Harshavardhan Thippareddi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579120309664