“…However, this finding may be related to a greater intrinsic stability of the pigment redox in this meat (Bekhit, Geesink, Ilian, Morton, & Bickerstaffe, 2003;Mancini, Hunt, Kim, & Lawrence, 2004), particularly a higher level of antioxidant components (Tang, Faustman, Lee, & Hoagland, 2003), such as creatine, anserine and Q10 concentrations (Roseiro et al, 2014). Yet, the greater oxidative potential prevailing in the Gm muscle, which would decrease lactate production while increasing pyruvate oxidation within mitochondria, and the time necessary to muscle exhaustion (Vestergaard, Oksberg, & Henckel, 2000), may result here in less protein denaturation during rigor onset with the consequent impact on light incidence scattering (Bruce, Stark, & Beilken, 2004).…”