Table 6.

Effect of dietary Polygonatum sibiricum polysaccharide (PSP) on meat quality traits of the pectoral muscle of broiler chickens at 35 d of age.

Parameter	Dietary PSP level, mg/kg			SEM1	P-values
	0	400	800		PSP	Linear	Quadratic
L45 min	52.48	52.22	51.72	0.139	0.062	0.053	0.650
a45 min	11.56	11.95	12.27	0.163	0.206	0.082	0.912
b45 min	7.553	7.429	7.175	0.162	0.658	0.379	0.860
pH45 min	7.126	7.036	6.808	0.119	0.564	0.309	0.794
pH24 h	6.306	6.158	6.172	0.062	0.597	0.411	0.564
Drip loss24 h/%	4.650	4.970	5.108	0.120	0.298	0.137	0.721
Cooking loss/%	23.01	22.56	22.53	0.253	0.719	0.479	0.713

Means in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different,

¹SEM: standard error of means.