DIFERENÇA DE COMPOSIÇÃO DAS CARCAÇAS DE SUÍNOS: FÊMEAS, MACHOS CASTRADOS E IMUNOCASTRADOS

Abstract

Pork is one of the most consumed in the world, Brazil is a major producer and exporter of pork in the world, taking fourth place for both production and export in the world ranking. Knowing that the whole male swine leaves a characteristic unpleasant odor to the palate, the consumer market demands a meat with better palatability, and with that, to meet the market demands, new techniques are being adopted, such as immunocastration, which inhibits sexual hormones, making the presence of the characteristic odor disappears. Thinking about this great niche of pork production, swine farming has always been innovating so that it is always qualifying in order to meet the demand that pork provides, fulfilling the demands that the consumer market demands, and with each passing day. the consumer market becomes more demanding in relation to the product they are consuming. This bibliographic review work aims to demonstrate the difference in carcass composition between female, castrated and immunocastrated pigs, also highlighting the difference between immunocastration in pigs and surgically castrated pigs.