Journal of Environmental Biology

The meat quality and growth performance in broiler

chickens fed diet with cinnamon powder

Park Sang-Oh¹, Ryu Chae-Min¹, Park Byung-Sung¹* and Hwangbo Jong²

^1*Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Animal Life Science, Kangwon National University,

Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, 200-701 South Korea

²National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Seonghwan, 331-801 South Korea

^*Corresponding Author email : bspark@kangwon.ac.kr

Publication Data

Paper received:

20 October 2010

Revised received:

18 November 2011

Accepted:

22 December 2011

Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate the feeding effect of diets containing 3, 5 and 7% of cinnamon powder? on meat quality and growth performance in broiler chickens. The chicken meat quality and growth performance in broiler chickens fed diets containing cinnamon powder increased significantly (P < 0.05) when compared to the control group. However, the TBARS of the meat of chickens fed diets containing cinnamon powder decreased significantly (P < 0.05) when compared to the control group. These findings suggest that the cinnamon powder can improve the shelf life and quality of chicken meat with maximize the productivity of broiler chickens. ??????

Key words

Cinnamon powder, Broiler chickens, Growth performance, Meat quality

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