The seasonal variation in the quality of venison from wild fallow deer (Dama dama) – A pilot study

Stanisz, Marek; Skorupski, Maciej; Śłósarz, P.; Bykowska-Maciejewska, Marta; Składanowska-Baryza, Joanna; Stańczak, Łukasz; Krokowska-Paluszak, Małgorzata; Ludwiczak, Agnieszka

doi:10.1016/j.meatsci.2018.12.003

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“…b ns not significant (P > 0.10); *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001. c n = 6 and 8 for stressful-winter hunted and stalking-summer, respectively. 3 have not observed differences for body weight with hunting season of hunt-harvested does. However, the authors observed a higher technological quality for venison obtained in winter showing compared to that harvested in summer.…”

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“…With regard to the effect of seasons, meat hunted in winter had a higher pH than meat hunted in summer. However, recently, Stanisz et al 3 observed that the pH of the muscles Longissimus lumborum measured 24 h post-mortem was 0.22 units higher in the summer season, compared to the winter season. This is consistent with current results regarding colour and literature reports that pre-harvest stress affects the degree of bleed, leading to an increase in the level of oxymyoglobin 21 and confirming the influence of hunting type on meat colour 4 .…”

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“…The quality of wild game meat depends on the hunting method 19 and on the hunting season 3 . Wild deer shot with a projectile (e.g.…”

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“…www.nature.com/scientificreports/ force of SP meat by hunting type/season. In fact, Stanisz et al 3 concluded that a greater impact of season could be evidenced using biting measures (Volodkevich Bite Jaws, test speed 2 mm/s; strain 100%; force 5 g at 24 h and 14 days post-mortem) compared to Warner-Bratzler measures. However, biting measures were not included in the current study.…”

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“…Thus, inevitably, the comparison between the most common SP marketed meats shows a mixed effect of hunting type with seasonality: the driven hunts during winter vs. summer when wild animals have a rather different amount of food available and stalking results in sudden death rather than the extreme stress of being chased by dogs. A literature review focusing on quality of venison shows that the animals studied (farm-raised or wild deer) were slaughtered/hunted during one particular season of the year, being either the autumn or the winter time 3 . There is very little available information about meat quality from deer hunted in summer.…”

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Quality of main types of hunted red deer meat obtained in Spain compared to farmed venison from New Zealand

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Deer venison is increasingly valued as a natural meat. This study examines the three main sources of venison: farmed venison from New Zealand (NZ), the world's leading producer, and wild deer from Spain (SP), the second largest producer, which mainly supplies venison from traditional autumnwinter driven hunts (monteria), involving packs of dogs, and a smaller proportion culled through summer selective stalking. Meat from NZ contained more protein, lower shear force and lower n-6/n-3 ratio (P < 0.01). Spanish meat had a greater content of total, essential and non-essential amino acids (P < 0.01). Meat from deer culled in winter had lower intramuscular fat and saturated fatty acids (FA) but higher polyunsaturated FA (P < 0.01) and pH (P < 0.001) than meat from summer stalked deer. Therefore, venison presents differences by country of origin for composition, FA and texture that are likely to affect its health characteristics. Anomalies observed in meat between the winter driven hunt and non-stressful summer stalking may be attributed to the level of death stress in the case of variables such as pH. However, the effect on fat and mineral composition seems to be seasonal, depending respectively on wild diet or cyclic osteoporosis in males.

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