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Healthy n-6/n-3 fatty acid composition from five European game meat species remains after cooking

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, June 2015
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Title
Healthy n-6/n-3 fatty acid composition from five European game meat species remains after cooking
Published in
BMC Research Notes, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13104-015-1254-1
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Teresa G Valencak, Lisa Gamsjäger, Sarah Ohrnberger, Nicole J Culbert, Thomas Ruf

Abstract

Intensive farming of livestock along with recent food scandals and consumer deception have increased awareness about risks for human nutrition. In parallel, the demand for meat obtained under more natural conditions from animals that can freely forage has largely increased. Interestingly, the consumption of game meat has not become more common despite its excellent quality and content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). We addressed the question if game meat fatty acid composition is modified through kitchen preparation. By analysing muscle fatty acid (FA) composition (polar and total lipids) of five European game species in a raw and a processed state, we aimed to quantify the proportion of PUFA that are oxidised and hydrogenated during processing. All game meat species originated from local hunters and free-living individuals. To mimic a realistic situation a professional chef prepared the meat samples with gentle use of heat in a standardised way. Expectedly, the overall content of polyunsaturated fatty acids declined during the cooking process but the decrease size was <5% and the nutritiously most important n-3/n-6 ratio was not affected by processing (F1,54 = 0.46; p = 0.5). Generally, our samples contained species-specific high PUFA and n-3 FA contents but we point out that differentiating between species is necessary. Game meat thus provides a healthy meat source, as cooking does not substantially alter its favourable fatty acid composition. Further research is needed to elucidate species-specific differences and the role of habitat quality and locomotion for tissue composition.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 49 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 18%
Researcher 8 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 12%
Student > Master 6 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 8%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 11 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 31%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 6%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Engineering 2 4%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 15 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 June 2023.
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