Table 7.

Effect of dietary Polygonatum sibiricum polysaccharide (PSP) on meat quality traits of leg 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	52.83	52.46	52.83	0.170	0.626	0.993	0.343
a45 min	11.57	11.63	11.92	0.115	0.439	0.827	0.215
b45 min	7.310a	7.107ab	7.017b	0.171	0.049	0.047	0.267
pH45 min	7.108	7.001	7.082	0.130	0.948	0.936	0.757
pH24 h	6.646	6.332	6.208	0.148	0.492	0.257	0.771
Drip loss24 h/%	4.753	4.857	4.928	0.213	0.358	0.258	0.852
Cooking loss/%	22.87	22.69	22.84	0.189	0.846	0.587	0.729

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

¹SEM: standard error of means.