. 2025 Oct 10;12:1671325. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1671325

Table 1.

Effects of diet, additive, and their interaction on physiochemical values at 24 h post-mortem of breast meat of broilers slaughtered at day 35 of age.

Treatments		Core temperature	pH	Color component
Diet	Additive	Core temperature	pH	Lightness (L*)	Redness (a*)	Yellowness (b*)
Interaction effects
Standard	None	17.15	5.64	51.2^ab	1.12^b	13.18^ab
Standard	Fibrafid 0.15%	18.23	5.61	48.41^b	2.59^a	13.06^ab
Standard	Fibrafid 0.25%	17.93	5.65	50.73^ab	0.56^c	11.90^c
Standard	TURBO Grow	17.46	5.61	52.96^ab	0.05^d	13.95^a
Reduced	None	17.06	5.68	52.22^ab	0.96^b	14.03^a
Reduced	Fibrafid 0.15%	17.97	5.69	53.03^a	−0.64^e	12.88^ab
Reduced	Fibrafid 0.25%	17.59	5.69	53.34^a	−0.15^d	13.32^ab
Reduced	TURBO Grow	17.09	5.69	53.05^a	0.59^c	14.02^a
SEM		0.079	0.009	0.405	0.137	0.122
Main effects of diet
Standard		17.69^a	5.63^b	50.83^b	1.08^a	13.03^b
Reduced		17.43^b	5.69^a	52.91^a	0.19^b	13.57^a
SEM		0.112	0.012	0.573	0.193	0.173
Main effects of additive
None		17.11^c	5.66	51.71	1.04^a	13.61^a
Fibrafid 0.15%		18.10^a	5.65	50.72	0.98^a	12.97^b
Fibrafid 0.25%		17.76^b	5.67	52.03	0.21^b	12.61^b
TURBO Grow		17.28^c	5.65	53.01	0.33^b	13.99^a
SEM		0.159	0.017	0.811	0.274	0.244
p value
Diet		0.013	0.001	0.008	<0.0001	0.001
Additive		<0.0001	0.754	0.208	<0.0001	<0.0001
Diet*Additive		0.712	0.735	0.020	<0.0001	0.004

n = 6 per each additive*diet arrangement. ^a–eMeans in the same column with different superscripts differ significantly (p < 0.05). Means with the same letter are not significantly different.