Relationship Between Meat Quality and Animal Nutrition

Abstract

The present review asessessed meat quality taking into account complex and multivariate qualities including meat production. Production conditions; however, consist of management system, breeding, genotype, feeding, holding and stunning before slaughtering, method of slaughter, cooling and storing conditions. Meat quality changes depending on many factors such as feed, level of feeding, weaning age, castration, slautering age, etc. Today, animal nutritionists have developed new nutrition strategies to improve meat quality by changing the feed composition of poultry and small/large ruminant. Also, animal nutrition can affect gene expression in the animal via epigenetic effects varying the differentiation and proliferation of adipose cells. Scientists can use different feedstuffs to modulate the expression of target genes and increase meat quality.