Main description:

Camel meat has many benefits as a meat product. It has low fat content and is highly nutritious, and has potential to be used to combat hyperacidity, hypertension, pneumonia and respiratory disease. This book reviews up-to-date literature on camel meat and meat products, carcass and meat quality characteristics, muscle structure, post-mortem analysis and the nutritive value to humans. A comparatively small component of global meat consumption, camel meat has the potential to undergo an explosion of production worldwide, and currently farming for camel meat in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Australia is undergoing significant expansion. The potential of camel meat in helping to meet projected world food shortages, and being sustainably farmed, is also explored by the editors.

Contents:

1: Classification, History and Distribution of the Camel 2: Camel Meat in the World 3: Camel Nutrition for Meat Production 4: Camel Body Growth 5: Slaughtering and Processing of Camels 6: Inspection of Slaughtered Dromedary Camels 7: Prospects for Online Grading of Camel Meat Yield and Quality 8: Camel Carcass Quality 9: Distribution and Partitioning of Tissues in the Camel Carcass 10: Structure and Quality of Camel Meat 11: Interventions to Improve the Tenderness of Fresh Meat: a Future Prospect for Camel Meat Research 12: Processed Camel Meats 13: Nutritive and Health Value of Camel Meat 14: The Economical Potential of Camel Meat