National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
|
PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A study was conducted to assess the effect of immersing chicken breast meat inoculated with Campylobacter jejuni in turmeric powder added water. For this experiment, the chicken breast meat was portioned into pieces and sterilized by autoclaving. The sterilized chicken meat pieces were independently inoculated with standard Campylobacter jejuni culture at a concentration of 108 cells per gram of chicken meat and kept undisturbed for 30min at room temperature under aseptic condition to allow the bacteria to attach. The inoculated chicken pieces were randomly divided into six groups, each containing three pieces. Breast meat pieces from four groups were separately immersed in a glass beaker containing 20ml of 10%, 16.67%, 23.33% and 30% of turmeric powder added water for 15min, 15min, 5min and 5min, respectively. The fifth and sixth groups were dipped in 20ml of sterile distilled and tap water for 15min, respectively and maintained as controls. The breast meat pieces belonging to control and different treatment groups were individually drained, packed in sterile polyethylene bags, labelled and stored under refrigerated condition (4±1°C) for five days. The control and treated breast meat pieces were analyzed 45min after the treatments as well as on 3rd and 5th day of refrigerated storage for their effect on inoculated Campylobacter jejuni. The mean Campylobacter jejuni count of 16.67%, 23.33% and 30% turmeric powder added water treated chicken samples were significantly lower (p<0.05) from that of tap water and distilled water dipped control samples. Further, among turmeric water treated samples, 30% turmeric treatment resulted in significantly lower (p<0.01) Campylobacter jejuni count compared to all the other treatments studied.
Citations |
 |
 |
 |
 |
