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Smoking and curing and its effect on meat

Both smoking meat and curing meat seems to significantly decrease the retinol content. Is it actually destroyed or is it just broken down into retinoic acid?

 

I've read this in a couple of places, here are some sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174003003504

https://books.google.se/books?id=Aafy7MbhOlwC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=retinol++%22cured+meat%22&source=bl&ots=NoDMJuSWx3&sig=WLuIzzS3i_V6OxipgjMl47xaIvs&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjO2NDZnYHfAhXiAxAIHe3zA30Q6AEwAHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=retinol%20%20%22cured%20meat%22&f=false

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