Majid et al. 2020 - Cumin-supplemented broiler meat minerals

Majid, Albashr, Hamma, and Khidhir tested whether adding cumin seed powder to broiler diets changed meat-quality traits and mineral concentrations in breast and thigh meat. The study used four diets: control feed and basal feed supplemented with 3, 6, or 9 g cumin per kg of diet. Table 7 reports mean plus standard deviation mineral concentrations in ppm for Cr, Cu, Cd, Pb, Ni, Zn, Fe, Mg, P, Na, Ca, and K in finished broiler meat. For Heavy Metal Index routing, the usable occurrence signal is the measured breast and thigh meat concentration table; the source is not cumin-seed occurrence evidence.

Key numbers

Table 7 reports mineral concentrations in ppm, equivalent to mg/kg or 1000 ppb, in broiler breast and thigh meat. Treatments were T1 control, T2 3 g cumin/kg diet, T3 6 g cumin/kg diet, and T4 9 g cumin/kg diet.

The abstract also states that cumin supplementation affected copper, nickel, zinc, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and calcium concentrations in thigh meat, and iron, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, and calcium concentrations in breast meat.

Methods (brief)

The experiment used 96 eight-day-old Ross 308 broilers divided into four treatment groups, each with three replicates of eight chicks. Birds were fed for 45 days on a basal diet with no cumin, 3 g cumin/kg diet, 6 g cumin/kg diet, or 9 g cumin/kg diet. At the end of the experiment, breast and thigh meat samples were collected after slaughter. The paper states that mineral concentration was estimated according to method number 968.08 in AOAC and Helrich (1990), but it does not name the instrument, LOD, LOQ, or censoring treatment. Reported values are total elemental concentrations, not speciation; total chromium must not be treated as Cr-VI.

Implications

Certification: This source contributes small experimental broiler-meat concentration values for Pb, Cd, Ni, Cr, Zn, Cu, and Fe. It is not a market-basket poultry occurrence study and should not be pooled silently with retail chicken datasets without a row-fit note.

Courses: Useful as an example of a nutrition/feed-additive study that still contains routeable finished-food mineral values. It also shows why wishlist terms can misroute a source: the auto-fetch target was cumin, but the measured consumer matrix is broiler meat.

App: Supports context for chicken/poultry meat values only at low confidence because the sampling frame is an experimental feeding trial, not ordinary retail sampling.

Microbiome: No microbiome data.

Wiki pages this source may touch

• poultry-product
• chicken
• poultry
• lead
• cadmium
• nickel
• chromium
• zinc

Verification notes

• DOI, title, authors, journal, year, and page range were verified from the PDF first page: Basrah Journal of Agricultural Sciences 33(1): 159-171, 2020; DOI 10.37077/25200860.2020.33.1.12.
• The PDF filename and wishlist route imply a cumin/Ni ingredient lead, but the concentration table is in broiler breast and thigh meat. The source page therefore routes to poultry/chicken and records cumin only as the dietary intervention.
• Evidence Fitness: EF-2 / routeable experimental food-matrix concentration evidence for broiler meat. Limitations: experimental diet design, small group structure, no LOD/LOQ, no instrument named for minerals, and no retail-market sample frame.

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