Study of biological value of beef produced by interspecies hybrids of domestic cattle and wild yaks

• Published in: Voprosy pitaniia Vol. 83; no. 6; pp. 81 - 85
• Main Authors: Bagirov, V A, Chernukha, I M, Lisitsin, A V, Zinovieva, N A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russia (Federation) 2014
• Subjects: Amino Acids - analysis; Animals; Animals, Domestic - metabolism; Animals, Wild - metabolism; Cattle; Chimera; Dietary Fats - analysis; Dietary Proteins - analysis; Meat - analysis; Nutritive Value
• ISSN: 0042-8833

The comparative study of the chemical composition and biological values of beef produced by hybrids of Angus cattle with wild yaks (hybrid beef) and pure-bred Angus cattle (traditional beef) has been carried out. Longissimus muscle samples were used for analysis. It was observed, that the hybrid beef samples had the practically equal protein content comparing to traditional beef (21.1 vs. 21.6 per cent) but were characterized by the lower fat content (1.2 vs. 2.5 per cent). The higher biological value of hybrid beef comparing to traditional beef has been shown. The value of protein-quality index, calculated as the ratio of tryptophan amino acid to oxyprolin and characterizing the ratio of high biological value proteins to low biological value proteins was 8.1 vs. 5.7. The values of amino acid indexes [ratio of essential amino acids (EAA) to non-essential amino acids (NAA) and ratio of EAA to the total amount of amino acids (TAA)] were EAA/NAA = 0.77 vs. 0.65 and EAA/TAA = 0.43 vs. 0.39. The protein of hybrid beef was characterized by the higher content of a number of the essential amino acids: by a factor of 1, 77 for threonin, 1.23--for valin, 1.09--for lysin, 1.17--for leucine and 1.19--for tryptophan. The amount of the essential amino acids in 1 gram of protein of the hybrid beef was 434.7 mg against 393.1 mg for traditional beef It has been shown, that the protein of the hybrid beef comparing to traditional beef is characterized by the higher values of the amino acid scores calculated for EAA.