. 2019 Feb 16;11(2):121. doi: 10.3390/toxins11020121

Table 7.

Effect of dietary supplementation with the three treatments on skin of thigh muscle and footpad color of broiler chickens consuming a corn-soybean based diet contaminated with AFB1 (2 ppm) ¹.

Item	NC	AFB1	CUR	CEL	CEL + CUR	SEM²	P-Value
Thigh muscle
L*	71.14 ± 0.47^ab	72.27 ± 0.50^a	70.55 ± 0.28^bc	70.98 ± 0.38^b	69.71 ± 0.38^c	0.2118	0.0015
a*	3.36 ± 0.43^a	2.15 ± 0.29^b	1.89 ± 0.29^b	1.88 ± 0.31^b	1.79 ± 0.17^b	0.1460	0.0011
b*	2.75 ± 0.56^c	4.89 ± 0.41^b	7.83 ± 0.57^a	6.13 ± 0.29^b	7.54 ± 0.29^a	0.3270	<0.0001
Footpad
L*	70.89 ± 0.76^a	70.94 ± 0.53^a	71.65 ± 0.97^a	70.66 ± 0.58^a	70.66 ± 0.32^a	0.2978	0.5395
a*	2.36 ± 0.26^a	2.03 ± 0.32^a	1.92 ± 0.11^a	2.56 ± 0.44^a	1.82 ± 0.31^a	0.1376	0.4001
b*	13.08 ± 0.59^b	13.65 ± 0.34^b	19.12 ± 0.96^a	14.66 ± 0.55^b	17.25 ± 1.36^a	0.4875	<0.0001

¹ Each value represents the mean ± standard error. ² Standard error of the means. ^a–c Mean values in the same row that do not share a common letter differ significantly (P < 0.05), according Duncan’s multiple range tests. L* = lightness; a* = redness; b* = yellowness; n = 12.