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| Changes in Muscle Quality of Wuchang Bream during Live Transportation |
| PENG Ling, YOU Juan, WANG Lan, LIAO Tao, XIONG Shanbai, YIN Tao |
| 1.National R&D Branch Center for Conventional Freshwater Fish Processing (Wuhan), College of Food Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; 2.Key Laboratory of Cold Chain Logistics Technology for Agro-Product, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Agricultural Products Processing and Nuclear Agricultural Technology, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430064, China |
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Abstract The changes in the muscle quality of Wuchang bream during live transportation (3, 6, 12 and 24 h) were measured by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography, a color difference meter and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer. The results showed that after 3 h of transportation, the pH value, water-holding capacity, whiteness, brightness (L*), redness (a*), and the contents of lactic acid, muscle glycogen, ATP and its derivatives in fish muscle were 6.57, 70.33%, 52.22, 52.27, 0.29, 4.50 mg/g, 1.46 mg/g and 909.25 mg/100 g, respectively. With increasing transportation time to 24 h, the pH value first increased and then decreased to 6.33 (P < 0.05), while the lactic acid content initially decreased and then increased to 3.81 mg/g (P < 0.05). The water-holding capacity gradually increased to 76.05% and then decreased to 73.33%. The whiteness and L* gradually decreased to 47.64 and 47.71, respectively, whereas a* increased to 1.31 (P < 0.05). The content of muscle glycogen gradually decreased to 1.25 mg/g. The total content of ATP and its derivatives increased to 1 116.62 mg/100 g; the ATP content decreased to 62.43 mg/100 g, while the content of the umami substance IMP increased to 747.91 mg/100 g, and the contents of the bitter substances inosine (HxR) and hypoxanthine (Hx) increased to 156.12 and 63.28 mg/100 g, respectively. It was concluded that the muscle quality of Wuchang bream changed significantly during live transportation under the influence of stress.
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2022, Vol. 36 
