Fat content and fatty acid pattern in muscle and adipose tissue from differently reared calves

M Seewald; H M Eichinger; H Scherz

doi:10.1016/0309-1740(87)90015-5

Fat content and fatty acid pattern in muscle and adipose tissue from differently reared calves

Meat Sci. 1987;19(2):101-9. doi: 10.1016/0309-1740(87)90015-5.

Authors

M Seewald¹, H M Eichinger, H Scherz

Affiliation

¹ Versuchsstation Thalhausen Lehrstuhl für Tierzucht der Technischen Universität München, D-8051 Kranzberg, West Germany.

PMID: 22055861
DOI: 10.1016/0309-1740(87)90015-5

Abstract

Two groups of Simmental calves were fed a milk replacer diet or were early weaned and slaughtered at the age of 4 months. Two muscles and two adipose tissue samples were removed, the lipids were extracted by chloroform-methanol and the fatty acid composition was analyzed by gas chromatography after transesterification with Na-methylate. Total lipid contents in both muscles were relatively small (<2%) Due to high phospholipid content, veal muscle lipids contain a high proportion of polyene fatty acids which accounted for more than 30%. Adipose tissue consists predominantly of oleic acid (from 34% to 37%) and palmitic acid (from 27% to 29%). In extractable perinephric fat, milk replacer diet caused significantly higher myristic acid (C(14)) values and, accordingly, lower oleic (C(18:1)) values.