Use of a high-oleic and high-tocol diet in combination with a non-tocol antioxidant for improving animal meat quality
AssigneeE.I. duPont de Nemours and Company
InventorsFred R. Wolf, Cindi S. Zimmermann, Court A. Saunders
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Abstract
A novel method for improving the meat quality of an animal is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises feeding the animal a diet supplemented with oleic acid and tocols and subsequently formulating the meat with a non-tocol antioxidant such as rosemary extract. The source of the oleic acid and/or tocols may be transgenic corn that employs the FAD-2 gene as a silencing agent for a high-oleic phenotype and/or expresses the HGGT gene for a high-tocotrienol phenotype. The method improves the quality of meat from both non-ruminants and ruminants.
Claims18
A method of improving the meat quality of an animal, the method comprising the steps of:
- a. feeding the animal a diet comprising, (i) 3% to 10% total dietary oil with oleic acid comprising 50% to 70% of the fatty acid fraction of the oil and (ii) 50 ppm to 500 ppm tocotrienols, wherein said diet comprises a genetically modified, high oleic acid and high tocotrienol cereal grain crop or oilseed;
- b. harvesting meat from the animal;
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- c. adding to the meat a non-tocol antioxidant;
- wherein the meat exhibits improved quality.
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