Table 3.

Changes in Sensory evaluation of tilapia fish as affected by ice storage at 5 °C on different concentrations of MLP (n = 6, mean ± SE)

Storage period (days)	Concentrations
	Control	1% MLP	2% MLP	3% MLP	4% MLP
0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
1	0.50 ± 0.17abA	0.50 ± 0.17aA	0.50 ± 0.17aA	0.50 ± 0.17aA	0.40 ± 0.16aA
2	1.00 ± 0.00bA	0.90 ± 0.10aA	0.80 ± 0.13aA	0.70 ± 0.15aA	0.70 ± 0.15aA
3	3.10 ± 0.38cA	3.00 ± 0.30bA	2.70 ± 0.21bA	2.70 ± 0.42bA	2.40 ± 0.45bA
4	6.80 ± 0.25dC	6.80 ± 0.33cC	5.40 ± 0.34cB	4.00 ± 0.30bcA	3.30 ± 0.30bcA
5	9.20 ± 0.25eC	9.10 ± 0.23dC	6.50 ± 0.40cB	4.80 ± 0.49cA	4.20 ± 0.25cA
6	10.20 ± 0.35fC	10.20 ± 0.42eC	7.70 ± 0.26 dB	6.80 ± 0.42dAB	5.80 ± 0.33dA
7	12.60 ± 0.31gC*	12.00 ± 0.37fC*	8.90 ± 0.28eB	8.00 ± 0.37deAB	7.30 ± 0.30eA
8			9.80 ± 0.25eB	9.00 ± 0.26efAB	8.20 ± 0.33efA
9			11.20 ± 0.39fB*	10.10 ± 0.23fgA	9.30 ± 0.21fgA
10				11.30 ± 0.42ghA	10.60 ± 0.34ghA
11				12.10 ± 0.50hA*	11.40 ± 0.34hA
12					11.80 ± 0.51hA*

^{*Rejected (higher the scores values indicate the poorer of fish quality)}

^{Means in same column with different small letters are significantly different (P < 0.05)}

^{Means in same row with different capital letters are significantly different (P < 0.05)}