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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2006
Fred R. Wolf, Urbandale, IA (US);
Cindi S. Zimmermann, Madrid, IA (US);
Court A. Saunders, Clive, IA (US);
Fred R. Wolf, Urbandale, IA (US);
Cindi S. Zimmermann, Madrid, IA (US);
Court A. Saunders, Clive, IA (US);
E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A novel method for improving the meat quality of an animal is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises feeding the animal a diet supplemented with oleic acid and tocols and subsequently formulating the meat with a non-tocol antioxidant such as rosemary extract. The source of the oleic acid and/or tocols may be transgenic corn that employs the FAD-2 gene as a silencing agent for a high-oleic phenotype and/or expresses the HGGT gene for a high-tocotrienol phenotype. The method improves the quality of meat from both non-ruminants and ruminants.