The close relationship between human diet and health encourages consumers to be
more demanding about products that meet their nutritional preferences. The nutritional
properties of poultry meat are highly valued; it is a meat with low fat content and less
saturated fatty acid than the most ruminant tissues. Lipid oxidation is a major cause of meat
quality deterioration which lowers the functional, sensory and nutritive values of meat
products; and therefore, consumer’s acceptability1
. Oxidative stability of poultry meat is
influenced not only by bird genotype but also feeding, rearing practices and the degree of
muscle tissue damages during preslaughter, eg. physical damage, early postmortem
conditions, pH and carcass temperature. These factors could be manipulated by