Table 1. Proximate composition of chicken thigh meat from conventional and animal welfare farm during cold storage
Items | Treatment | Storage (days) | SEM1 |
1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
Moisture | CTC2 | 75.57 | 75.75 | 75.30 | 75.21 | 74.95 | 0.465 |
CTW | 75.15 | 75.25 | 75.27 | 74.99 | 75.15 | 0.435 |
SEM | 0.333 | 0.445 | 0.380 | 0.373 | 0.650 | |
Crude protein | CTC | 17.34 | 17.68 | 17.34 | 17.40 | 17.38 | 0.294 |
CTW | 17.76 | 17.65 | 17.56 | 17.54 | 17.54 | 0.258 |
SEM | 0.301 | 0.300 | 0.288 | 0.242 | 0.247 | |
Crude fat | CTC | 6.41 | 6.22 | 6.61 | 6.59 | 6.63 | 0.302 |
CTW | 5.80 | 6.18 | 6.05 | 6.35 | 5.81 | 0.282 |
SEM | 0.283 | 0.341 | 0.303 | 0.201 | 0.313 | |
Crude ash | CTC | 1.23 | 1.12 | 1.32 | 1.25 | 1.23 | 0.071 |
CTW | 1.12 | 1.25 | 1.19 | 1.35 | 1.29 | 0.061 |
SEM | 0.064 | 0.049 | 0.070 | 0.082 | 0.062 | |
SEM: Standard error of means.
CTC: Chicken thigh meat from conventional farm, CTW: Chicken thigh meat from animal welfare farm.