Table 10. Changes of total aerobic counts for cured chicken breast prepared with different concentrations of grapefruit seed extract during 10 d of storage at 5°C.
| Storage time (d) | Treatments1) |
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| N | C | G0.05 | G0.1 | G0.3 | G0.5 | ||
| Total microbial count (Log CFU/g) | 0 | 3.65±0.152)a3)D4) | 3.21±0.10bD | 3.24±0.01bD | 3.11±0.04bcD | 3.07±0.05cD | 3.06±0.02cD |
| 3 | 5.15±0.06aC | 4.45±0.13bcC | 4.90±0.00bC | 4.80±0.00bC | 4.47±0.14cC | 4.40±0.05cC | |
| 7 | 6.99±0.04aB | 6.36±0.05bB | 6.97±0.10aB | 6.81±0.14aB | 6.50±0.19bB | 6.37±0.12bB | |
| 10 | 7.79±0.03aA | 7.03±0.01cA | 7.37±0.14bA | 7.35±0.13bA | 7.15±0.09bcA | 7.05±0.11bcA | |
1)Treatments: See the legend of Table 1.
2)All values are expressed as mean±SE of triplicate determinations.
3)a-dMeans with different superscripts within a row differ significantly (p<0.05)
4)A-DMeans with different superscripts within a column differ significantly (p<0.05)