Figure 1.

Mean ± Standard error (SE, n = 120) for meat sample volume fraction vacuum impregnated by the isotonic sodium chloride solution ($X$) for both levels of vacuum pressure ($p_1$) (mean ± SE): (a) as a function of the length of the vacuum pressure step ($t_1$) and, (b) as a function of the length of the atmospheric pressure step ($t_2$).