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• R,
MYER
Researchers Look For Better
From the deli’s ham-on
rye to the smell of that
succulent country-style ham
in the oven, ham is high on
the culinary Hit Parade.
Food technologists hope to
make it even better and
more plentiful by finding
ways to improve lower grade
pork and to increase the final
ham yield in pork
processing.
Porcine stress syndrome,
called PSS, is responsible for
a prevalent type of low
quality pork • pale, soft,
exudative-known in the in
dustry as PSE. Hot weather,
poor ventilation, crowding,
rough handling, and en
vironmental conditions
occurring during marketing
all cause stress in the hog.
Although PSS has a genetic
origin as well, the en
vironment is an obvious and
immediate cause of both
disease and frequent
fatality. High body tem
perature, staggering gait,
abnormal muscle acidity,
and muscle tremors are
observable symptoms.
At USDA’s Richard B.
Russell Agricultural
Research Center in Athens,
Ga., characteristics of hams
quality-graded on the pork
cutting Ime in the meat
packing plant prior to
processing were studied by
Agricultural Research
Service scientists. The
quality grades were (1) pale,
soft, exudative (PSE) (2)
normal (3) dark, firm, and
dry (DFD). The pH of the
ham muscles was deter
mined on hams which had
been “pumped” or injected
with a standard commercial
curing pickle. In all the tests,
PSE hams had the most
acidic muscles. The normal
group was intermediate and
the DFD group was the
highest or most alkaline. The
research indicated that pH is
a factor which may be used
in the selection of hams with
different yield charac
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During two trials, hams
were hung to drain for S
hours, smoked and cooked
overnight to an internal
temperature of about 65
degrees C., and then chilled
for 24 hours at 2 degrees to 4
degrees C. However, in the
second of the trials the hams
were held overnight in a
brine solution before
smoking and cooking. In
both trials and within each
quality group, shrinkage was
highest during the smoking
and cooking stage of
processing. The PSE quality
group lost the greatest
amount of weight during this
stage.
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"We concluded that the
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bind and retain meat Juices
during smoking and cooking
is critical,” said food
technologist Carl E. Davis.
"PSE hams lose up to one
and a half times more weight
than normal or DFD hams.”
The final yield of the PSE
hams was ' 2.76 and 5.54
percentage points less than
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Hams
during smoking and chilling.
"Also, in trial 2 the ad
ditional holding time in cure
before the hams were
smoked and cooked in
creased the water-holding
capacity of the muscle,”
added Mr. Davis.
During oven cooking of
center-cut ham slices,the
quality of the fresh ham
muscle affected the amount
of cooked-out Juices. The
PSE quality had the greatest
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amount; normal, and in*
termcdiate amount; and the
DFD the least amount of
fluid loss.
With pale, soft, exudative
ham, soft does not mean
tender. PSE cooked ham
slices had the highest shear
values (a measure of case of
cutting), which indicated
less tender meat.
The study showed that
processing hams according
to a uniform curing,
smoking, and chilling cycle
without first evaluating the
fresh muscle quality would
result in a wide and wasteful
variation of final ham yield
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