. 2023 Apr 17;10:1165343. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1165343

Table 8.

Skin and muscle color and muscle texture of European seabass juveniles fed the experimental diets.

	Diet				SEM	p- value
	Algae0	Algae2	Algae4	Algae6	SEM	p- value
Color
Skin
L^*	69.1^b	63.4^a	64.7^ab	67.3^ab	1.40	0.027
a^*	−5.76^a	−4.66^b	−4.59^b	−4.55^b	0.144	<0.001
b^*	9.67^ab	9.07^a	10.6^b	10.4^b	0.327	0.007
C^*	11.3^ab	10.2^a	11.5^b	11.3^ab	0.31	0.020
h	121^b	118^b	114^a	114^a	0.9	<0.001
Muscle
L^*	51.4	52.5	51.7	50.9	0.92	0.637
a^*	−3.26	−3.60	−3.57	−3.29	0.161	0.308
b^*	6.65^b	5.54^a	5.25^a	5.70^ab	0.260	0.002
C^*	7.51^b	6.72^a	6.43^a	6.67^a	0.203	0.002
h	118^a	123^ab	125^b	120^ab	1.9	0.038
Muscle texture
Hardness	1.46^b	1.26^ab	1.20^a	1.06^a	0.068	0.001
Adhesiveness	−0.111^a	−0.0542^b	−0.0645^b	−0.0560^b	0.00886	<0.001
Springiness	1.17	1.19	1.23	1.32	0.057	0.264
Cohesiveness	0.242	0.265	0.269	0.255	0.0148	0.573
Chewiness	0.426	0.377	0.403	0.336	0.0403	0.437
Resilience	0.596	0.738	0.654	0.904	0.0885	0.087

Algae0, commercial-based diet without algae blend inclusion (control diet); Algae2, control diet with 2% algae blend inclusion; Algae4, control diet with 4% algae blend inclusion; Algae6, control diet with 6% algae blend inclusion; SEM, standard error of the mean; L^*, lightness degree; a^*, redness/greeness degree; b^*, yellowness/blueness degree; C^*, chroma value; h, hue angle value.

^{a, b}

Means in the same line with different superscripts are statistically different (p < 0.05).