Effects of heating methods on texture and protein physicochemical properties of Nile tilapia fillets
LI Rui1,2, SUN Zuli1, YANG Xianqing2,3, LI Laihao2,3, WEI Ya2, CEN Jianwei2,3, XIANG Yue1,2, ZHAO Yongqiang2,3*
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1.College of Life Science, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China; 2.Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Research & Development Center for Aquatic Product Processing, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510300, China; 3.Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
Texture indices including hardness, flexibility, chewiness, cohesiveness, and adhesiveness, myofibrillar protein content, secondary structure, carbonyl value, thiol value, and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis spectra were compared and analyzed in fresh muscle fillets (control group) of each 5 cm×3 cm×1.5 cm of Nile tilapia Oreochromisniloticus with body weight of (1000±100)g steamed at 100 ℃ water for 5 min, boiled at 100 ℃ for 5 min, and air-fried at 200 ℃ for 10 min to evaluate the effects of heating methods on the texture and protein properties of Nile tilapia. The results showed that the heating treatment had a great influence on the texture and physicochemical properties of tilapia fillets, with the effects varying with the different heating methods. The hardness, chewiness, and adhesiveness of the tilapia fillets were shown to be decreased significantly, and flexibility to be increased(P<0.05), while be decreased significantly in the steaming and boiling treatments(P<0.05). Oxidation and thermal denaturation of proteins were caused by heating treatment, with decrease in myofibrillar protein and hydrosulphonyl group contents in steaming, boiling, and air frying methods, and secondary structure being changed from order to disorder including decrease in the α-helical structure content, and increase in the content of the irregular coil structure. The SDS-PAGE spectrum showed that the molecular weight of muscle protein was concentrated in 16 000-220 000, with main bands of myosin heavy chain, actin, tropomyosin, and myosin light chain. The shallow and moved upward myosin heavy chain was observed in the muscle fillets of Nile tilapia exposed to heating treatment, and a small-molecular-weight protein aggregation of 37 000-52 000 was found in the SDS-PAGE of myofibrillar protein.The findings indicated that the heating methods affected the texture and protein physicochemical properties of tilapia fillets to varying extent, better flexibility, and chewiness in the tilapia fillets exposed to the air-fried, and less oxidation in the tilapia fillets exposed to the steamed treatment, which provided reference with heating treatment of Nile tilapia fillets.
LI Rui, SUN Zuli, YANG Xianqing, LI Laihao, WEI Ya, CEN Jianwei, XIANG Yue, ZHAO Yongqiang, .
Effects of heating methods on texture and protein physicochemical properties of Nile tilapia fillets[J]. Journal of Dalian Fisheries University, 2020, 35(4): 577-583 https://doi.org/10.16535/j.cnki.dlhyxb.2020-040