Beef products become higher quality
FBN presents cooperation with Greifswalder meat and sausage specialty manufacturers at the International Green Week in Berlin
Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology in Dummerstorf (FBN) were able to demonstrate for the first time that a higher content of health-promoting n-3 fatty acids (omega-3 fatty acids) in the beef of Holstein Bullen is also produced in the meat and sausage products produced from them preserved. This is a central result of an industry and research cooperation between the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and Greifswald-based meat and sausage specialty manufacturer Greifen-Fleisch GmbH. The collaboration is part of the European research network "ProSafeBeef", which brings together 41 research institutes and industrial companies from 18 countries (see the background). The results are from Friday, 21. January to Sunday, 30. January 2011 presented at the International Green Week in Berlin (see DATE).To date, not all of the physiological and nutritional properties of beef have been clarified. For example, there are generally few n-3 fatty acids in this meat. However, if the cattle are fed grass or grass silage (high-quality feed made from meadow or field grass preserved through lactic acid fermentation), the content of health-promoting omega-3 fatty acids and the ratio of n-3 to n, which is important for the human cardiovascular system, increase -6 fatty acids become cheaper. In the long-term study, Holstein bulls were fed a ration enriched with n-3 fatty acids, which led to an accumulation of these vital fatty acids both in the muscle tissue of the animals and in the products made from them. After slaughter, the n-3 fatty acid levels in the meat and fat of the test animals as well as the end products corned beef and tea sausage from Greifen-Fleisch GmbH were analyzed and evaluated at the FBN. During the technological processing of the meat by the industrial partner, no changes in the content or pattern of the enriched n-3 fatty acids were measurable. Greifen-Fleisch was able to offer these products enriched with n-3 fatty acids as part of the project and thus pass the high-quality end product on to the consumer.