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Effect of dietary source of very long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in poultry diets on the oxidative stability of chicken meat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

C. Rymer  and
D.I. Givens
C. Rymer*
Affiliation:
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
D.I. Givens
Affiliation:
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
*
Email:c.rymer@reading.ac.uk
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Enriching chicken meat with the very long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLC n-3 PUFA) 20:5 (EPA) and 22:6 (DHA) is a possible means of increasing the human consumption of these essential fatty acids as current levels of intake of these fatty acids are extremely low. However, a potential drawback of increasing the VLC n-3 PUFA content of chicken meat is that the oxidative stability of the meat is reduced. Chicken meat is enriched with VLC n-3 PUFA by the addition of fish oil to the chickens’ diet. It is possible that using alternative dietary sources of VLC n-3 PUFA may increase the oxidative stability of the meat (Mooney et al., 1998). The objective of this experiment was to determine what the source of VLC n-3 PUFA in broilers’ diets had on the oxidative stability of their edible tissues.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2007 , April 2007 , pp. 17
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2007

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