Relationships among Consumer Liking, Lipid and Volatile Compounds from New Zealand Commercial Lamb Loins
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Author
Pavan, Enrique
Ye, Yangfan
Eyres, Graham T.
Reis, Mariza G.
Silcock, Patrick
Johnson, Patricia L.
Realini, Carolina E.
Publication date
2021-05-20ISSN
2304-8158
Abstract
Loin sections (m. Longissimus lumborum) were collected at slaughter from forty-eight lamb carcasses to evaluate consumer-liking scores of six types of typical New Zealand commercial lamb and to understand the possible underlying reasons for those ratings. A consumer panel (n = 160) evaluated tenderness, juiciness, flavor liking, and overall liking of the different types of lamb loins. Consumer scores differed among the types of lamb meat for all the evaluated attributes (p < 0.05). Further segmentation based on overall liking scores showed two consumer clusters with distinct ratings. Correlation and external preference map analyses indicated that one consumer cluster (n = 75) liked lamb types that had lower total lipid content, a lower proportion of branched-chain fatty acids, oleic and heptadecanoic acids; and a higher proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids and volatile compounds (green and fruity descriptors). Consumer liking of the other segment (n = 85) was less influenced by fatty acids and volatiles, except hexanoic, heptanoic and octanoic acids (rancid, fatty, and sweaty descriptors). Thus, the fatty acid profile and the volatile compounds derived from their oxidation upon cooking seem to be a stronger driver of consumer liking of lamb for some consumers than others.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
663/664 - Food and nutrition. Enology. Oils. Fat
Pages
21
Publisher
MDPI
Is part of
Foods
Citation
Pavan, Enrique, Yangfan Ye, Graham T. Eyres, Luis Guerrero, Mariza G. Reis, Patrick Silcock, Patricia L. Johnson, and Carolina E. Realini. 2021. "Relationships Among Consumer Liking, Lipid And Volatile Compounds From New Zealand Commercial Lamb Loins". Foods 10 (5): 1143. doi:10.3390/foods10051143.
Program
Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
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