It is well known that an important component in the quality assessment of meat, in addition to analysis of physico-chemical parameters, is to understand muscle microstructure. Evidence from the literature
indicates that fibre type composition and myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoforms composition could be the most important factors influencing many of the postmortem biochemical processes and thereby meat quality, especially pH, colour and tenderness. For reasons stated above, an understanding of muscle microstructure may provide more information about the development of meat quality, and also explain
the variation in physico-chemical traits of the analysed muscles.