“…Furthermore, because lipid oxidation affects the sensory quality of meat, including color, texture, and flavor, it also undermines the quality and consumer acceptability of meat products (Johnson and Decker, 2015). To prevent lipid oxidation, synthetic antioxidants, such as ascorbic acid, butylated hydroxyanisol, butylated hydroxytoluene, tert-butylhydroquinone, prophylgallate, nitrates, and nitrites, are added during meat production (Ribeiro et al, 2019;Shah et al, 2014). However, consumers have become increasingly concerned about the addition of synthetic antioxidants in processed meat products (Han and Ahn, 1998), which has instigated the use of natural antioxidants extracted from plants (Gil et al, 2001;Shah et al, 2014).…”