Liha töötlemine
unsaturated fatty acids. Oxidation may be mutagenic, carcinogenic, and cytotoxic
induced by light, metal ions (i.e., iron, copper, (Guardiola et al. 1996). Cholesterol oxides
cobalt, manganese, etc.), or enzymes like may be formed when reheating chilled meat
lipoxygenase. In the case of induction by or during the chilling storage of meat. No
lipoxygenase, this enzyme needs activation cholesterol oxides were reported to be
by a preformed hydroperoxide (Honikel detected after the heating of pork sausages
2009). Lipid oxidation may also be induced (Baggio and Bragagnolo 2006), but studies
by hydrogen peroxide generated by peroxide- made on European sausages revealed the
forming bacteria during meat fermentation. generation of up to 1.5 μg/g of cholesterol
Lipid oxidation follows a free radical mecha- oxides, even though the percentage of cho-