which is rapid, ease to use, versatile and inexpensive, is one of the most
powerful analytical techniques available to the animal production industries
from feed manufacture to final product evaluation.
The muscle is organized in sets of fiber bundles more or less
aligned depending on type and functionality of the muscle. Looking
to an index of anisotropy (such as impedances along/across the
fiber direction) gives a valuable state of the meat structure. Biophysical
meat properties in using an index of anisotropy could be assessed
5. Transversal slices of a raw (top) and fried (bottom) bovine meat at 130 °C. We can
observe intramuscular fat and oil that have penetrate severalmillimeters into the fried sample.
From these images, the average profile was extracted of oil penetration after a 130 °C and
a 180 °C frying process. Temperature profilesmeasured in the samples during the frying process
are also shown. Oil penetration is higher at 180 °C (~5 mm) than at 130 °C (~2.5 mm).