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. 2023 Jun 5;102(8):102842. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102842

Table 6.

Effects of dietary ARE addition on indices of meat quality in broilers.

	Treatments				Statistics
Index¹	0% ARE	0.15% ARE	0.30% ARE	SEM²	P_anova	P_linear	P_quadratic
Flesh color	72.35	76.87	67.38	1.62	0.052	0.190	0.038
pH_45min	5.78^b	5.84^ab	6.16^a	0.07	0.036	0.016	0.324
EC, μS/cm	3.38^b	7.48^a	7.76^a	0.56	<0.001	<0.001	0.046
Shear force, N	4.27^a	3.83^ab	3.05^b	0.14	<0.001	<0.001	0.458
Muscle TG, mmol/g protein	0.13^b	0.20^a	0.11^b	0.13	0.001	0.240	<0.001

^a,b

Means within a row with different superscripts are different at P < 0.05.

¹

Abbreviations: EC, electrical conductivity; TG, triglyceride.

²

SEM = standard error of mean, n = 8.