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. 2019 Feb 18;56(3):1256–1265. doi: 10.1007/s13197-019-03589-w

Table 2.

Texture profile analysis (TPA) of the fresh cheese (FC) enriched with yerba mate (YM)

Treatments Storage (days)
1 7 14 21
Hardness (g)
Control 615.00 ± 7.07cB 922.50 ± 38.89bA 1387.50 ± 53.03aA 1020.00b ± 21.21bC
FC5 740.00 ± 63.64cB 1067.50 ± 95.45bA 1455.00 ± 14.14aA 1027.50 ± 3.53bC
FC10 702.50 ± 3.53bB 1140.00 ± 289.91abA 1340.00 ± 0.00aA 1320.00 ± 77.78aB
FC20 935.00 ± 7.07cA 1260.00 ± 49.50bA 1300.00 ± 113.14bA 1785.00 ± 77.78aA
Chewiness (mJ)
Control 18.50 ± 0.85cB 31.60 ± 1.84bA 40.70 ± 0.99aA 22.45 ± 0.21cC
FC5 23.75 ± 2.47aAB 33.15 ± 0.64aA 36.15 ± 7.00aA 28.20 ± 1.70aC
FC10 20.00 ± 0.14 dB 27.25 ± 1.06cA 43.15 ± 0.78bA 48.80 ± 0.14aB
FC20 27.20 ± 0.14cA 38.10 ± 6.22bcA 44.65 ± 1.48bA 59.00 ± 2.54aA
Cohesiveness
Control 0.73 ± 0.02abA 0.76 ± 0.01aA 0.70 ± 0.00bB 0.57 ± 0.01cC
FC5 0.71 ± 0.01abA 0.74 ± 0.00aA 0.69 ± 0.21abB 0.67 ± 0.01bB
FC10 0.74 ± 0.01abA 0.72 ± 0.00bA 0.76 ± 0.01aA 0.74 ± 0.01abA
FC20 0.73 ± 0.01aA 0.73 ± 0.03aA 0.78 ± 0.02aA 0.77 ± 0.01aA
Gumminess (g)
Control 461.00 ± 7.07cB 692.00 ± 60.81bA 971.00 ± 41.01aA 582.00 ± 5.66bcC
FC5 526.00 ± 50.91cB 758.5 ± 30.40bA 1041.00 ± 66.47aA 634.00 ± 15.56bcC
FC10 522.00 ± 7.07bB 843.50 ± 174.65abA 1009.5 ± 33.23aA 884.00 ± 94.75abB
FC20 715.50 ± 6.36cA 951.00 ± 110.31bcA 1120.00 ± 83.44bA 1423.50 ± 21.92aA

Control: without YM; FC5: enriched with 0.50% of YM; FC10: enriched with 1.0% of YM; FC20: enriched with 2.0% of YM. Results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation. Different lowercase letters in the same line are significantly different (p < 0.05). Different uppercase letters in the same column are significantly different (p < 0.05)