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. 2020 Jan 25;57(1):28–36. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0180143

Table 7. Effect of diets supplemented with different amounts of phytase on meat quality parameters of broilers 35 days after hatching1.

Item CON LPY HPY SEM2 P value
WHC3, % 77.41 75.81 72.32 1.680 0.146
CL4, % 28.26 28.01 26.96 0.500 0.209
pH 6.22 6.16 6.35 0.080 0.333
Surface color (L*) 58.61 61.54 61.04 0.610 0.271
Surface color (a*) 11.89 10.45 11.66 0.640 0.283
Surface color (b*) 11.61 12.73 12.15 0.760 0.597
1

Values are the mean of six replicates per treatment (N=270)

2

Pooled standard error of mean

CON: control diet (phosphorous-sufficient diet with dicalcium phosphate)

LPY: phosphorous-deficient diet with 0.01% phytase (500 FTU/kg) without dicalcium phosphate

HPY: phosphorous-deficient diet with 0.02% phytase (1000 FTU/kg) without dicalcium phosphate

3

Water Holding capacity

4

Cooking loss

L*-Lightness, a*- Redness, b*- Yellowness (meat color) a, b Means in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P<0.05)