Mineral and vitamin profiles of chuck and sirloin cuts of cattle in Ethiopia Erena Tariku1, Belay Abera1,*, Singh Anurag2,**, Deme Tesfaye1, Hailu Demelash1, Geleta Mulatu3 1Department of Food Science and Applied Nutrition and Bioprocessing and Biotechnology Center of Excellence, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, P O Box 16417, Ethiopia 2Department of Food Technology, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur-208 002, Uttar Pradesh, India 3Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Alnarp, Sweden *Corresponding Author: Abera Belay, Department of Food Science and Applied Nutrition and Bioprocessing and Biotechnology Center of Excellence, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, P O Box 16417, Ethiopia, Email: ab.berabelay@gmail.com
**Anurag Singh, Department of Food Technology, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur-208 002, Uttar Pradesh, India, anurag.niftem@gmail.com
Online published on 5 July, 2024. Abstract Background Meat plays a crucial role in the human diet as it is a rich source of micronutrients and helps combat malnutrition. The objective of this research was to examine the mineral and vitamin compositions of three different cattle. Methods Two methods, Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (AES) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES), were employed to evaluate the mineral concentrations present in the meat samples. Result The ranges of concentrations of the minerals were Cu (0.001±0.00-0.002±0.00), Fe (0.107±0.00-0.127±0.01), Na (0.469±0.06- 0.620±0.06), K (0.054±0.01-0.149±0.02), Zn (0.047±0.01-0.085±0.01), Se (0.040±0.01-0.120±0.03), Mg (0.228±0.02-0.269±0.02) and Ca (0.1108±0.03-0.254±0.01) mg per 100 kilograms. Certain cuts of Ethiopian Boran beef have been shown to contain an abundance of essential minerals, nutrients and fat-soluble vitamins. The ranges for vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin E are 10.34±0.86 to 17.14±2.39), 0.45±0.06 to 0.89±0.13) and 9.55±1.92 to 15.46±1.86), respectively. The results of the study showed that the sheko cattle variety had higher levels of vitamin D and E than other types of cattle and meat cuts. Top Keywords Beef meat, Cattle types, Meat cut, Mineral, Vitamin. Top |