Table 6.

Effects of capsicum oleoresin, carvacrol, cinnamaldehyde and their mixtures added to broilers’ mixed feed on the nutrient compositions of the breast and leg meat (x ± SEM)

		Treatment Groups
		Control	CAP	CAR	CIN	CAP + CAR + CIN	P
Breast meat	Dry matter,%	26.57 ± 0.25	26.28 ± 0.26	26.68 ± 0.17	26.37 ± 0.28	26.89 ± 0.26	0.424
	Crude ash,%	0.95 ± 0.10	1.20 ± 0.04	1.07 ± 0.07	1.15 ± 0.06	1.10 ± 0.07	0.097
	Crude fat,%	0.66 ± 0.09a	0.26 ± 0.03b	0.35 ± 0.04b	0.73 ± 0.06a	0.36 ± 0.08b	0.000
	Crude protein,%	24.93 ± 0.26bc	25.02 ± 0.25bc	27.61 ± 1.00a	23.95 ± 0.23c	25.41 ± 0.32b	0.000
Leg meat	Dry matter,%	23.34 ± 0.27b	24.26 ± 0.35b	25.86 ± 0.61a	23.93 ± 0.71b	24.23 ± 0.45b	0.009
	Crude ash,%	1.06 ± 0.06	0.93 ± 0.04	1.03 ± 0.04	1.04 ± 0.03	1.07 ± 0.05	0.140
	Crude fat,%	0.80 ± 0.06a	0.48 ± 0.08bc	0.65 ± 0.08ab	0.55 ± 0.08b	0.28 ± 0.05c	0.000
	Crude protein,%	21.10 ± 0.25b	20.41 ± 0.28b	21.23 ± 0.44b	21.41 ± 0.35b	23.52 ± 0.76a	0.001

^{a, b, c}The differences between means in the same row with different letters are important, P < 0.05