Meat and fat colour as a tool to trace grass-feeding systems in light lamb production

Meat Science

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 239-248

  Ripoll, G ^a   Joy, M ^a   Munoz F ^a   Alberti P ^a  

^a Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón IA2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Rectus abdominis colour; Reflectance spectrophotometry; Subcutaneous caudal fat colour

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO SATIVA; OVIS ARIES; RATTUS;

EID: 49649090866     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2007.11.025     Document Type: Article

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