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. 2017 May 22;6:e23. doi: 10.1017/jns.2017.17

Table 1.

Physical and chemical parameters of canned cat foods processed using three retorting conditions

(Mean values with their standard errors)

	113°C/232 min		120°C/103 min		127°C/60 min
Parameter	Mean	sem	Mean	sem	Mean	sem
GMD (μm)	620^a		470^b		441^b
GSD	65·8		30·4		15·6
Viscosity (mPa)	3·3^a	0·04	7·9^b	0·07	7·3^b	0·08
Texture
Firmness (kg)	1·99^a	0·15	3·51^b	0·28	4·01^b	0·12
Adhesiveness (kg)	0·22^a	0·06	0·42^b	0·03	0·42^b	0·02
Chewing work (kg × s)	24·0^a	4·1	53·9^b	9·9	59·3^b	2·2
pH	6·53^a	0·00	6·63^b	0·00	6·66^b	0·01

GMD, geometric mean diameter based on wet sieving; GSD, geometric standard deviation.

^a,b Values with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0·05).