Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy in the Prediction of Sensory Properties of Beef
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- Vol. 3 (2), 81-87
- https://doi.org/10.1255/jnirs.59
Abstract
Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy in the prediction of sensory hardness, tenderness and juiciness of bovine M. Longissimus dorsi muscles has been studied. Principal component regressions (PCR) of sensory variables from NIR reflectance measurements on frozen/thawed beef of 120 heat treated samples yielded multivariate correlation coefficients of cross-validation of 0.74, 0.70 and 0.61 for hardness, tenderness and juiciness, respectively. The corresponding correlation coefficients for NIR measurements of fresh (non-frozen) samples were approximately 0.1 units lower for all sensory variables. Predicting Warner Bratzler (WB) shear press values from NIR measurements gave a correlation coefficient similar to that for prediction of sensory hardness. The univariate correlation coefficient between sensory hardness and WB shear press values was 0.90.Keywords
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