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. 2019 Jul 15;98(12):6733–6741. doi: 10.3382/ps/pez389

Table 4.

Breast meat color parameters (L*, a*, b*; Minolta system) in broilers fed the experimental diets as affected by refrigerated storage.

	Diets
Color parameters	Cont	+E	+C	+Se	+ECSe	SEM	P-value
L^*_24h	62.3^X	61.4^X	62.9^X	61.7^X	61.7^X	0.959	0.838
L^*_48h	59.4^X,Y	58.5^X,Y	59.5^Y	58.8^X,Y	59.5^X,Y	0.992	0.937
L^*_72h	57.9^Y,Z	56.4^Y,Z	58.1^Y,Z	57.4^Y	58.2^X,Y	1.038	0.722
L^*_132h	55.3^Z	54.0^Z	55.6^Z	56.0^Y	55.8^Y	0.925	0.590
P-value (time)	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	0.0002	0.038
a^*_24h	0.847	0.866	1.11	1.406	1.103	0.278	0.623
a^*_48h	1.24	1.37	1.542	1.78	1.45	0.259	0.658
a^*_72h	0.916	1.199	1.388	1.425	1.069	0.231	0.504
a^*_132h	1.26	1.42	1.72	1.52	1.06	0.229	0.340
P-value (time)	0.388	0.489	0.108	0.770	0.531
b^*_24h	5.40^X	4.90^X,Y	6.23	5.79^X	5.33	0.418	0.258
b^*_48h	5.34^X	5.38^X	6.03	5.73^X,Y	5.40	0.417	0.723
b^*_72h	4.97^X,Y	4.67^X,Y	5.69	5.14^X,Y	4.85	0.407	0.476
b^*_132h	4.03^Y	3.48^Y	4.85	3.99^Y	4.16	0.393	0.220
P-value (time)	0.002	0.019	0.065	0.036	0.203

^X–Z

Least squares means within a column without the same superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05).

L^* = Lightness; a^* = Redness; b^* = Yellowness, measured in different intervals post-mortem: 24 h, 48 h, 72 h, and 132 h.

Names of the groups described under Table 1.