Shelf life of modified atmosphere packed cooked meat products: addition of Na-lactate as a fourth shelf life determinative factor in a model and product validation

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作者
Devlieghere, F
Geeraerd, AH
Versyck, KJ
Bernaert, H
Van Impe, JF
Debevere, J
机构
[1] Univ Ghent, Dept Food Technol & Nutr, Lab Food Microbiol & Preservat, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[2] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Food & Microbial Technol BioTec Bioproc Tech, B-3001 Louvain, Belgium
关键词
modified atmosphere packaging; predictive modelling; carbon dioxide; Na-lactate; cooked meat products; shelf life; validation; Lactobacillus sake;
D O I
10.1016/S0168-1605(00)00291-9
中图分类号
TS2 [食品工业];
学科分类号
0832 ;
摘要
Cooked meat products are often post-contaminated because of a packaging and/or slicing step after the pasteurisation process. The shelf life is therefore limited and can be extended by adding Na-lactate. A previously developed model for the spoilage of gas packed cooked meat products, including temperature, water activity and dissolved CO2 as independent variables, was extended with a fourth factor: the Na-lactate concentration in the aqueous phase of the meat product. Models were developed for the maximum specific growth rate mu(max) and the lag phase lambda of the specific spoilage organism Lactobacillus sake subsp. carnosum. Quadratic response surface equations were compared with extended Ratkowsky models. In general, response surface equations fitted the experimental data best but in the case of mu(max), the response surface model predicted illogical growth behaviour at low water activities and high Na-lactate concentrations. A extensive product validation of the mathematical models was performed by means of inoculated as well as naturally contaminated industrially prepared cooked meat products. The deviations of the experimentally determined versus predicted growth parameters in inoculated cooked meat products were in general small. Both types of models were also able to predict the shelf life of naturally contaminated cooked meat products, except for pate where an under-estimation of the shelf life was predicted by the response surface equations. The validation studies revealed higher accuracy of the extended Ratkowsky models in comparison to the response surface equations. A significant shelf life extending effect of Na-lactate was predicted, which was more pronounced at low refrigerated temperatures. A synergistic effect has also been noticed between Na-lactate and carbon dioxide which, at least partly, could be explained by the pH-decreasing effect of CO2. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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