Pig body composition during growth determined non-destructively or with dissection and intramuscular fat content of different anatomical locations

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Data from body composition of pigs of three crossbreeds obtained at four different moments during growth (30, 70, 100 and 120 kg body weight) is presented. Moreover, a subsample of pigs at 30, 70 and 100 kg and all those of 120 kg were slaughtered, all of them cut following the EU reference cutting and some of them dissected, either the four main cuts (simplified dissection) or all of them (full dissection). At each target BW live pigs were CT scanned, thus the volume associated with each Hounsfield value is available. Moreover from CT images at specific anatomical location, several measures (area, thickness, etc.) were obtained in order to characterize the body composition. Also, carcass characteristics (fat and muscle thickness) were obtained directly on the carcass after slaughter and the weight and intramuscular fat content of three ham muscles and 3 locations of the loin were determined. This information can be used to obtain growth curves for the different tissues and cuts a and to understand tissue deposition at different growth stages, either for all the animals globally or to see differences between genotypes. Also, it is a good database to see the relation between the whole carcass composition and the cuts composition, since it provides the weight of all the cuts and the dissection (i.e. weight of the different tissues) of some of them. Moreover, differences between full and simplified dissection can be studied from the database. Intramuscular fat is an important quality attribute that affects the acceptability of meat by consumer, either visually or after eating it. Usually, intramuscular fat is measured in one muscle, but the database provides information of six different muscle/locations of the pig carcass, allowing a more in-depth study of this attribute. All this data has been used in several papers but it can be reused and reanalysed using other methodologies and with a different purpose.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34810/data2105
Related Identifier IsCitedBy https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731114002237
Related Identifier IsCitedBy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2014.10.005
Related Identifier IsCitedBy https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118002021
Metadata Access https://dataverse.csuc.cat/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34810/data2105
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Creator Font i Furnols, Maria ORCID logo
Publisher CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca
Contributor Font-i-Furnols, Maria; Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference INIA Spain RTA2010-00014-00-00
Rights CC BY 4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Font-i-Furnols, Maria (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA))
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Resource Type Experimental data; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values; text/plain
Size 8251749; 31232; 15885; 21297; 14719
Version 1.0
Discipline Agricultural Sciences; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences
Spatial Coverage 41.97602343210449, 2.997687195885855 , Monells, Girona, Catalonia, Spain