What is it about?
Though singeing cattle hides with scrap tyre or firewood increases the energy content and derivable metabolic water of the hides, the practice introduces heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons into the meat which makes it unhealthy for consumption and puts the unsuspecting consumer at health risk. It is therefore advised that singeing of animals (hide or any other part) be discouraged and more awareness created so that people will know the dangers to health posed by this harmful practice.
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Why is it important?
We have found out that (1) there is no significant difference in the proximate composition and energy content of both firewood or scrap tyre singed hides. However, except that the hides singed with firewood had a significant higher lipid and fibre content; (2) The hide singed with scrap tyre had higher concentrations of heavy metals and PAH4.
Perspectives
We believe that what we eat makes us either healthy or unhealthy. A good food gives rise to good health but a bad food gives rise to bad health. Often the difference between good and bad food is down to how the food is prepared. For instance, in Southern Nigeria, cattle hide can be processed for food by singeing it with either firewood or scrap tires. We were curious to know whether there were nutritional differences between cattle hides prepared with either firewood or scrap tire. Therefore, we carried out this research to answer the questions
Eze Chidozie Woko
National Biotechnology Development Agency, Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Heavy Metal, and Derivable Metabolic Water and Energy of Catle Hides Processed by Singeing, March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,
DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.18.994962.
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