Table 6.
pH, water activity, color and texture values of nuggets of leg and breast meat of broilers fed on extruded flaxseed meal supplemented diet
|
Treatment |
Breast meat nuggets |
Leg meat nuggets |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pH | 0 day | 10 day | 20 day | 30 day | Mean | 0 day | 10 day | 20 day | 30 day | Mean |
|
T0 |
6.69±0.03 |
6.63±0.02 |
6.60±0.02 |
6.56±0.07 |
6.62±0.05ab |
6.64±0.05 |
6.64± 0.06 |
6.63±0.02 |
6.59±0.04 |
6.6267±0.02 a |
|
T1 |
6.64±0.07 |
6.60±0.05 |
6.58±0.07 |
6.53±0.05 |
6.58± 0.04b |
6.66±0.06 |
6.61±0.03 |
6.58±0.07 |
6.50±0.03 |
6.5883±0.06ab |
|
T2 |
6.77±0.11 |
6.64±0.05 |
6.62±0.02 |
6.61±0.04 |
6.66±0.07a |
6.64±0.07 |
6.62±0.02 |
6.55±.0.09 |
6.50±0.02 |
6.5783±0.06 b |
|
T3 |
6.71±0.11 |
6.66±0.07 |
6.57±0.07 |
6.54±0.03 |
6.62±0.07ab |
6.65±0.04 |
6.59±0.05 |
6.58±0.06 |
6.49±0.03 |
6.5750±0.06 b |
|
Mean |
6.70±0.05a |
6.63±0.02b |
6.59±0.02bc |
6.56±0.03c |
|
6.65±0.01a |
6.62±0.02ab |
6.59±0.03b |
6.52±0.c |
|
|
Water activity | ||||||||||
|
T0 |
0.683±0.005 |
0.667±0.002 |
0.663±0.005 |
0.655±0.004 |
0.6669±0.01a |
0.671±0.003 |
0.670±0.004 |
0.660±0.004 |
0.654±0.002 |
0.6638±0.008a |
|
T1 |
0.678±0.004 |
0.672±0.003 |
0.670±0.005 |
0.647±0.005 |
0.6668±0.01a |
0.664±0.004 |
0.660±0.005 |
0.658±0.004 |
0.648±0.002 |
0.6575±0.006b |
|
T2 |
0.673±0.005 |
0.668±0.005 |
0.662±0.007 |
0.659±0.003 |
0.6657±0.00a |
0.659±0.005 |
0.656±0.004 |
0.650±0.004 |
0.646±0.005 |
0.6528±0.005c |
|
T3 |
0.676±0.004 |
0.661±0.004 |
0.655±0.004 |
0.643±0.003 |
0.6589±0.013b |
0.656±0.03 |
0.655±0.003 |
0.649±0.004 |
0.644±0.006 |
0.6510±0.005c |
|
Mean |
0.6777±0.004A |
0.6672±0.00B |
0.6627±0.00C |
0.6508±0.0D |
|
0.6626±0.0A |
0.6602±0.00A |
0.6541±0.5B |
0.6482±0.04C |
|
|
Color | ||||||||||
|
T0 |
115±4 |
111±4 |
110±2 |
102±4 |
109.75±5a |
125±3 |
120±3 |
111±3 |
106±3 |
115.83± 9a |
|
T1 |
110±3 |
103±3 |
102±2 |
99±1 |
103.50±5b |
122±2 |
119±4 |
110±3 |
100±2 |
112.67±10b |
|
T2 |
111±5 |
106±4 |
98±3 |
95±3 |
102.58±7b |
121±3 |
117±3 |
106±3 |
100±3 |
110.92±10bc |
|
T3 |
107±3 |
105±2 |
92±3 |
90±2 |
98.67±9 c |
119±1 |
118±3 |
104±2 |
99±1 |
109.92±10c |
|
Mean |
110.92±3 A |
106.33±3B |
100.67±8C |
96.58±5 D |
|
121.83±3 A |
118.42±1 B |
107.50± 3 C |
101.58± 3D |
|
|
Texture | ||||||||||
|
T0 |
985.47±4.90 |
986.83±4.31 |
988.53±5.68 |
991.10±4.09 |
987.98±2.42A |
969.3±3.4 |
973.9±3.1 |
976.7±4.0 |
978.3±3.2 |
974.57±3.9AB |
|
T1 |
984.33±5.06 |
984.83±5.41 |
985.60±4.90 |
991.37±3.00 |
986.53±3.26A |
974.8±3.9 |
976.6±4.6 |
977.5±4.2 |
979.1±3.8 |
977.00±1.8A |
|
T2 |
979.37±4.16 |
981.97±3.0 |
986.40±5.47 |
992.90±4.37 |
985.16±5.9 A |
971.6±3.6 |
976.0±4.8 |
978.4±4.3 |
980.0±4.4 |
976.49±3.6AB |
| T3 | 983.73±4.92 | 984.53±4.4 | 986.33±5.65 | 994.33±3.74 | 987.23±4.85A | 968.9±3.6 | 970.0±3.0 | 974.7±3.3 | 979.6±5.0 | 973.30±4.9B |
Values are mean of three replicates ± SD. Means followed by different letters are significant different (p<0.05).