. 2015 Mar 21;57:14. doi: 10.1186/s40781-015-0043-7

Table 3.

Effect of forage level and Cr-Met chelate supplementation diets on carcass weight and meat quality obtained from native Korean beef steers (Hanwoo, Bos taurus)

Items	Treatment
Items	LF ¹⁾	LFCM ²⁾	HF ³⁾	HFCM ⁴⁾
Post-fasting weight (kg)	578.33 ± 40.70^a	579.00 ± 41.41^a	571.67 ± 19.41^a	570.71 ± 48.91^a
Carcass weight (kg)	343.67 ± 26.59^a	344.25 ± 29.36^a	345.33 ± 11.33^a	339.86 ± 31.67^a
Meat quantity
Back fat thickness (mm)	10.67 ± 4.80^a	10.55 ± 4.58^a	7.33 ± 2.07^a	10.43 ± 2.87^ab
Rib-eye area (cm²)	75.67 ± 7.17^b	76.15 ± 6.33^b	84.67 ± 6.65^a	68.10 ± 1.12^ab
Meat yield index	57.56 ± 2.26^b	67.64 ± 2.08^b	69.65 ± 1.24^a	68.10 ± 1.12^ab
Quantity grade (A:B:C) (%)	33:50:17	25:50:25	50:50:00	29:71:0
Meat quality
Marbling score	3.17 ± 2.64^ab	2.65 ± 1.60^b	4.17 ± 2.14^ab	4.71 ± 2.02^a
Meat color	4.50 ± 0.55^a	4.96 ± 0.22^a	4.83 ± 0.75^ab	4.64 ± 0.50^a
Fat color	2.67 ± 0.52^b	3.00 ± 0.00^a	2.83 ± 0.41^ab	3.00 ± 0.00^a
Texture	18.17 ± 4.40^a	19.60 ± 3.42^a	16.83 ± 4.58^a	15.57 ± 4.22^a
Maturity	2.00 ± 0.00^a	2.00 ± 0.00^a	2.00 ± 0.00^a	2.07 ± 0.27^a
Quality grade (1⁺:1:2:3)	33:0:33:33	10:25:45:20	33:33:17:17	36:36:28:0

¹⁾40% forage in raising stage and 1^st fattening period + concentrate without Cr-Met.

²⁾40% forage in raising stage and 1^st fattening period + concentrate with Cr-Met.

³⁾60% forage in raising stage and 1^st fattening period + concentrate without Cr-Met.

⁴⁾60% forage in raising stage and 1^st fattening period + concentrate with Cr-Met.

^abSignificant differences occurred at (P < 0.05).