Novel product using a native breed of sheep (Merino da  Beira Baixa): smoked lamb

Merino breed emerged, in the textile industry renowned for their high-quality wool. This work aims to develop a novel food product. In Castelo Branco the “Merino da Beira Baixa” is part of 3 PDO cheeses and a PGI meat “Amarelo”, “Picante” e “Castelo Branco” and “Borrego da Beira”.The breed has experienced a decline in influence due to plummeting wool prices and an inability to compete with more productive breeds. This work aims to develop a novel food product using a ancestral breed and technique (smoking).

Keywords

Smoked lamb Merino da Beira Baixa

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/8812

Citation

CRISTÓVÃO, Mário [et al.] (2023) - Novel product using a native breed of sheep (Merino da Beira Baixa): smoked lamb. In Congress Farm to Fork, Castelo Branco, 2023 - Farm to Fork: our food, our health, our future congress : book of abstracts. p. 111.