Animal Husbandry and Feed Science ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (7): 60-64.doi: 10.12160/j.issn.1672-5190.2019.07.014

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Research Progress on Influencing Factors of Nutritional Value and Quality of Donkey Meat

CHEN Jian-xing1,HONG Jun1,LI Jing1,MA Zhi-yan1,LIU Gui-qin2,SUN Yu-jiang3,4   

  1. 1.College of Chemistry and Life Science,Chifeng University,Chifeng 024000,China;
    2.College of Agronomy,Liaocheng University,Liaocheng 252059,China;
    3.College of Animal Science and Technology,Qingdao Agricultural University,Qingdao 266109,China;
    4.Vocational College of Dongying,Dongying 257091,China
  • Received:2019-05-08 Online:2019-07-30 Published:2019-12-19

Abstract: Donkey meat is a good source of animal origin food. It is very popular with consumers due to its delicious taste and high nutritional value. However, the uneven quality of donkey meat products has affected its production profit and the sales in domestic and foreign markets. Therefore, solving the problems affecting the quality of donkey meat is conductive to the long-term development of China′s donkey meat industry. There are many factors affecting the quality of donkey meat, including genetics, environment, breeding and meat processing. This paper introduced the main nutritional value of donkey meat, and reviewed the influencing factors associated with donkey meat quality from the aspects of variety, age, gender, dietary nutrition level, location, storage and processing, in hoping to provide new ideas for building a donkey meat industry system with high additional value.

Key words: donkey meat nutritional value meat quality influencing factors

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