The results obtained in our work are summarized in Tables 2 and 3. They show that vitamin E administered orally to animals, reduces the TBARS values in meat products more significantly than
adding vitamin E directly during the preparation of the products. The MG and SG group salamis have significantly lower TBARS values than the CG group salamis. Vitamin E or a-tocopherol is defined as a radical-chain breaker, which operates in a lipid environment due to its hydrophobic nature. The effects of a tocopherol as an antioxidant are thus restricted to its direct effects in membranes and lipoprotein domains (Fuchs-Tarlovsky, 2013).