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nutrition, meat is an excellent diet source of the food industry. In addition to these basic
essential amino acids. Meat also plays an functions of foods, the “tertiary” function of
important role in supplying our diet with foods has attracted considerable attention
minerals and vitamins, such as iron, zinc, due to increasing concerns about health in
selenium, and B vitamins (Mulvihill 2004; developed countries (Heasman and Mellentin
Biesalski 2005). As well as these basic nutri- 2001; Dentali 2002; Sloan 2008). Tertiary
tional components, studies have revealed that functions are the roles of food components
meat contains several bioactive compounds, in preventing diseases by modulating phy-
such as conjugated linoleic acid, carnosine, siological systems. Examples of tertiary
and l-carnitine (Williams 2007; Arihara and functional properties are antioxidative, anti-
Ohata 2008)
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