Effects of dietary ferulic acid on growth performance, carcass traits and meat quality of heifers.

Edgar Fernando Peña-TorresJosé Luis Dávila-RamírezEtna Aida Peña-RamosMartin Valenzuela-MelendresAraceli Pinelli-SaavedraLeonel Avendaño-ReyesHumberto González-Rios

Published in: Journal of the science of food and agriculture (2020)

Ferulic acid has the potential for use as a growth promoter additive in finishing heifers without negatively affecting the meat quality, as occurs with some synthetic growth promotants compounds used in animal production. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry.

Keyphrases

dna methylation
quality improvement
gene expression
transcription factor
risk assessment