K. Nürnberg, D. Dannenberger, K. Ender, Dummerstorf

Meat is a natural food supplying important nutrients . The concentration of meat components depends among others on management, gender, age, and feeding of the animals in particular.

Studies in bulls of different race and in lambs have shown that feeding on pasture significantly increases the concentration of n-3 fatty acids in muscles and fatty tissues. Linseed oil added to the feed concentrate also increases the n-3 fatty concentration in pig muscles. In this way the quotient of the total of n-6 and n-3 fatty acids may be lowered to the recommended value of 5 : 1 and even less. Fattening on pasture hence is a means of increasing the physiological meat quality and of practicing lifestock management according to the animals‘ requirements.

Keywords: Meat / n-3 fatty acids / enrichement

Sie finden den Artikel in deutscher Sprache in Ernährungs-Umschau 10/04 ab Seite 409.