The most important finding of this experiment was that increasing
levels of dietary dried citrus pulp in replacement of barley improved
the resistance of meat to lipid oxidation over time of refrigerated
storage. The effect of dietary citrus pulp on meat oxidative stability
has never been investigated before and our results might be linked
to the presence of antioxidant phenolic compounds in citrus pulp
as confirmed by the higher overall concentration of phenolic compounds
found in the diets supplemented with this by-product