Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation

Ruminant-derived foods, predominantly milk and meat, are globally recognized as staples of a high-quality diet. Despite their widespread popularity, there is a notable deficiency in comprehensive standards addressing the nutritional values and safety of these products. This gap significantly limits...

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Main Authors: Boyan Zhang, Jiakun Wang, Bing Wang
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2025-01-01
Series:Animal Nutriomics
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2977377624000309/type/journal_article
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description Ruminant-derived foods, predominantly milk and meat, are globally recognized as staples of a high-quality diet. Despite their widespread popularity, there is a notable deficiency in comprehensive standards addressing the nutritional values and safety of these products. This gap significantly limits both the supply of and demand for premium quality milk and meat. This review endeavors to highlight the benefits of utilizing metabolomics for the evaluation of quality and safety in milk and meat products from ruminants. It identifies critical metabolites, genetic signals, and metabolic pathways related to the synthesis of ruminant-derived milk and meat, proposing their potential as nutritional or regulatory targets and biomarkers. These biomarkers are instrumental in predicting and assessing the quality and safety of dairy and meat products, offering guidance for quality-based pricing and food safety inspections in the market. This review offers a critical overview of current metabolomics-based platforms and tools for interpreting the quality and safety of ruminant foods. The core metabolic biomarkers and biological biosynthetic processes of milk and meat enhance our understanding of the interplay between conventional food production from animals and new synthetic biological technologies.
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spelling doaj-art-4aa16d67f384486e9ee58594b3079d2e2025-08-20T03:41:15ZengCambridge University PressAnimal Nutriomics2977-37762977-37842025-01-01210.1017/anr.2024.30Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluationBoyan Zhang0Jiakun Wang1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7213-3721Bing Wang2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4410-0495State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. ChinaKey Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. ChinaKey Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. ChinaRuminant-derived foods, predominantly milk and meat, are globally recognized as staples of a high-quality diet. Despite their widespread popularity, there is a notable deficiency in comprehensive standards addressing the nutritional values and safety of these products. This gap significantly limits both the supply of and demand for premium quality milk and meat. This review endeavors to highlight the benefits of utilizing metabolomics for the evaluation of quality and safety in milk and meat products from ruminants. It identifies critical metabolites, genetic signals, and metabolic pathways related to the synthesis of ruminant-derived milk and meat, proposing their potential as nutritional or regulatory targets and biomarkers. These biomarkers are instrumental in predicting and assessing the quality and safety of dairy and meat products, offering guidance for quality-based pricing and food safety inspections in the market. This review offers a critical overview of current metabolomics-based platforms and tools for interpreting the quality and safety of ruminant foods. The core metabolic biomarkers and biological biosynthetic processes of milk and meat enhance our understanding of the interplay between conventional food production from animals and new synthetic biological technologies.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2977377624000309/type/journal_articlefood quality and safetymetabolomicsadulterationbiomarkersartificial meat
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Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation
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food quality and safety
metabolomics
adulteration
biomarkers
artificial meat
title Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation
title_full Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation
title_fullStr Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation
title_short Metabolomics in ruminant food: Bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation
title_sort metabolomics in ruminant food bridging nutritional quality and safety evaluation
topic food quality and safety
metabolomics
adulteration
biomarkers
artificial meat
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