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Water holding capacity and chemical composition of the Longissimus muscle of growing lambs fed barley straw and concentrate containing sunflower meal and seed either untreated (control) or treated with malic acid and heat (MAH).
| Item | Concentrate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | MAH | SEM 1 | p = | |
| Water holding capacity (%) | 66.8 | 67.8 | 1.00 | 0.506 |
| Chemical composition (%) | ||||
| Moisture | 75.5 | 74.9 | 0.49 | 0.474 |
| Protein | 20.1 | 20.6 | 0.30 | 0.327 |
| Fat | 2.80 | 3.09 | 0.508 | 0.690 |
| Ash | 1.06 | 1.09 | 0.026 | 0.516 |
1 SEM: standard error of the mean.
