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Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers

Abandoning of male piglets castration in the European Union is a challenge for the pork production sector in particular for high-quality dry-cured traditional products. The information on consumer acceptability of dry-cured products from alternatives is limited, so the objective was to test the cons...

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Autores principales: Čandek-Potokar, Marjeta, Prevolnik-Povše, Maja, Škrlep, Martin, Font-i-Furnols, Maria, Batorek-Lukač, Nina, Kress, Kevin, Stefanski, Volker
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6518114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31013871
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods8040122
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author Čandek-Potokar, Marjeta
Prevolnik-Povše, Maja
Škrlep, Martin
Font-i-Furnols, Maria
Batorek-Lukač, Nina
Kress, Kevin
Stefanski, Volker
author_facet Čandek-Potokar, Marjeta
Prevolnik-Povše, Maja
Škrlep, Martin
Font-i-Furnols, Maria
Batorek-Lukač, Nina
Kress, Kevin
Stefanski, Volker
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description Abandoning of male piglets castration in the European Union is a challenge for the pork production sector in particular for high-quality dry-cured traditional products. The information on consumer acceptability of dry-cured products from alternatives is limited, so the objective was to test the consumer acceptability of unsmoked traditional dry-cured belly (Kraška panceta) processed from three sex categories, i.e., surgical castrates (SC), entire males (EM) and immunocastrates (IC). Consumers (n = 331) were asked to taste dry-cured bellies from EM, IC and SC and to score the taste appreciation on a 9 cm unstructured scale. After tasting the pancetta of three sex categories, the consumers attributed the lowest acceptability scores to SC, whereas IC and EM received similar scores. Only about a quarter of consumers attributed the lowest score to EM, mainly when boar taint compounds were present. The results of this study indicate that a certain share of consumers was sensitive to taste deficiencies and that the leanness of this product is very important for consumers.
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spelling pubmed-65181142019-06-03 Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers Čandek-Potokar, Marjeta Prevolnik-Povše, Maja Škrlep, Martin Font-i-Furnols, Maria Batorek-Lukač, Nina Kress, Kevin Stefanski, Volker Foods Article Abandoning of male piglets castration in the European Union is a challenge for the pork production sector in particular for high-quality dry-cured traditional products. The information on consumer acceptability of dry-cured products from alternatives is limited, so the objective was to test the consumer acceptability of unsmoked traditional dry-cured belly (Kraška panceta) processed from three sex categories, i.e., surgical castrates (SC), entire males (EM) and immunocastrates (IC). Consumers (n = 331) were asked to taste dry-cured bellies from EM, IC and SC and to score the taste appreciation on a 9 cm unstructured scale. After tasting the pancetta of three sex categories, the consumers attributed the lowest acceptability scores to SC, whereas IC and EM received similar scores. Only about a quarter of consumers attributed the lowest score to EM, mainly when boar taint compounds were present. The results of this study indicate that a certain share of consumers was sensitive to taste deficiencies and that the leanness of this product is very important for consumers. MDPI 2019-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6518114/ /pubmed/31013871 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods8040122 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Prevolnik-Povše, Maja
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Kress, Kevin
Stefanski, Volker
Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers
title Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers
title_full Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers
title_fullStr Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers
title_full_unstemmed Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers
title_short Acceptability of Dry-Cured Belly (Pancetta) from Entire Males, Immunocastrates or Surgical Castrates: Study with Slovenian Consumers
title_sort acceptability of dry-cured belly (pancetta) from entire males, immunocastrates or surgical castrates: study with slovenian consumers
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6518114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31013871
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods8040122
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