Table 4.
Meat color and physical characteristics of broiler meats according different light sources
Treatments | CIE | Physical characteristic1 |
L* | a* | b* | CL (%) | SF (g/cm2) | WHC (%) |
T1 | 52.8 | 1.64 | 6.91 | 14.4b | 8.08 | 60.7 |
T2 | 56.3 | 1.12 | 8.80 | 17.2a | 7.44 | 58.8 |
T3 | 52.8 | 1.28 | 6.97 | 14.2b | 7.63 | 60.7 |
SEM2 | 3.61 | 1.038 | 1.706 | 1.67 | 1.641 | 2.24 |
P-value | 0.237 | 0.726 | 0.182 | <0.05 | 0.822 | 0.339 |
Physical characteristic: CL, cooking loss; SF, share force; WHC, water holding capacity.
Standard error of means.
Means with different superscripts in the same column differ significantly (P<0.05).