“…Protein oxidation undergoes similar radical reactions to those of lipid oxidation, involving initiation, propagation, and termination stages (Schaich, 2008). These reactions lead to carbonylation of amino acid side chains, loss of free thiol groups, and further to the formation of protein cross-links and aggregation (Lund, Heinonen, Baron, & Estévez, 2011), which could negatively affect the functionality of meat proteins, and therefore result in the loss of meat quality such as tenderness (Bao & Ertbjerg, 2015) and nutritional value (Ferreira, Morcuende, Madruga, Silva, & Estévez, 2018). In meat, proteins and lipids locate closely to each other, and thus it is highly possible that oxidation reactions could be transferred from lipids to meat proteins and vice versa.…”