Resonance vibration ameliorating tenderness of yak longissimus thoracis et lumborum: A novel physical tenderization technology

Yingbo Peng; Shujie Liu; Yawei Zhang; Lu Yang; Xiuyun Guo; Muneer Ahmed Jamali

doi:10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.108860

Resonance vibration ameliorating tenderness of yak longissimus thoracis et lumborum: A novel physical tenderization technology

Meat Sci. 2022 Sep:191:108860. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.108860. Epub 2022 May 19.

Authors

Yingbo Peng¹, Shujie Liu², Yawei Zhang³, Lu Yang⁴, Xiuyun Guo⁵, Muneer Ahmed Jamali⁶

Affiliations

¹ College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210094, China. Electronic address: ybpengnj@njau.edu.cn.
² Academy of Animal and Veterinary, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China.
³ College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210094, China. Electronic address: zhangyawei@njau.edu.cn.
⁴ College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210094, China.
⁵ College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210094, China; School of Tourism and Cuisine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China.
⁶ Department of Animal Products Technology, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan.

PMID: 35623223
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.108860

Abstract

Physical tenderization technologies for beef have been of particular interest to the meat industry. Here a novel tenderization technology by mechanical resonance vibration was proposed. The fundamental natural frequency (NF_f) of the yak longissimus thoracis et lumborum (LTL) was obtained through a hammer impacting on the muscle, and was reported to be 24.89 Hz. The tensile stress and Warner-Bratzler shear force of the yak meat were decreased by using the obtained NF_f as the frequency of resonance vibration (RV), and only linear elastic deformation was found in stress-strain behavior of the vibrated meat. The variation of mechanical properties in post-rigor meat is responsible for the disappearance of the M-bands, shortening of the A-bands, and lengthening change in I-bands, rather than of the sarcomere length. The research demonstrated that RV treatment resulted in the M-band disappearance, the extensively detachment of endomysium from the myofibers, and the destruction of the linkages between α-actinin and thin filaments as well as other linkages.

Keywords: Mechanical properties; Microstructures; Nature frequency; Resonance vibration; Tenderization.

MeSH terms

Animals
Cattle
Meat / analysis
Muscle, Skeletal* / physiology
Sarcomeres
Technology
Vibration*