Mai Elsheikh

Dr. Mai Elsheikh


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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 August 2024 in Food and Bioprocess Technology
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MEMai Elsheikh
Mai Elsheikh
AOAli Osman
Ali Osman
Shimaa EdrisShimaa Edris
Shimaa Edris
WDWesam Dawam
Wesam Dawam
MSMahmoud Sitohy
Mahmoud Sitohy
ISIslam Sabeq
Islam Sabeq
Ensuring the safety and longevity of food products is a major priority in the meat industry. This paper focused on assessing the soybean-glycinin (SBG) impact on the quality and shelf-life of beef Musculus longissimus thoracis et lumborum (LTL) steaks and their potential in-vivo adverse consequences on foodborne pathogens and quantitative minimum biocidal values. Over 15 chilling-days at 4 °C, fresh LTL-steaks were fortified with either 1 mg/g of SBG (SBG1) or 0.5 mg/g (SBG0.5) and compared to control for physicochemical, oxidative, and microbiological attributes. Antibiotic-susceptible pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella enterica, and Escherichia coli were suppressed by 0.98 mg/mL of SBG, whereas antibiotic-resistant Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli required higher biocidal dosages of 50 and 6.25 mg/mL, respectively. SBG-fortification kept LTL-steaks’ pH below borderline until day 12, increased water-holding capacity, reduced cooking loss at the storage end, and significantly improved tenderness (p < 0.05). LTL-steaks’ lightness, redness, and chroma were statistically unaffected by SBG1.0-fortification compared to the control; however, there were notable growing-patterns during the last two storage-periods (p < 0.05). Except the sixth- and ninth-day storage-periods, SBG1.0-fortification increased the LTL-steaks yellowness and hue compared to the control, indicating brighter, less red meat (p < 0.05). SBG-fortification had a dose-dependent antioxidant and bactericidal impact on both native microflora and inoculated pathogens, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. Conclusively, SBG-fortification activities to improve LTL-steaks oxidative stability and shelf-life beyond 15 days and to inhibit inoculated-pathogens growth by one log CFU/g above or below the inoculation dose, validating SBG as a promising feasible meat preservation strategy.