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Table 3.

Effects of dietary rice hull silicon (RHS) on meat quality of broilers at 45 d of age.

Item	Control	Dietary RHS, mg/kg				P-value
Item	Control	2.5	5.0	7.5	10.0	P-value
Breast meat quality
Drip loss, %	14.13	13.80	13.25	9.09	13.32	0.092
Thawing loss, %	14.24^bc	11.09^ab	11.69^ab	8.08^a	17.81^c	0.050
Shear force, kg	5.35^b	6.43^b	6.49^b	9.13^a	6.19^b	0.030
Thigh meat quality
Drip loss, %	12.38^ab	13.31^ab	13.51^ab	8.46^a	14.22^b	0.050
Thawing loss, %	14.77	11.07	11.60	7.25	14.21	0.058
Shear force, kg	8.86	7.04	8.88	9.26	8.56	0.328

^{a, b, c} Within a row, means with different superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).