Table 5.

Meat quality parameters of Jumbo quails fed diets containing mopane worm meal in place of soybean products.

	1Dietary treatments					Significance
	MWM0	MWM5	MWM10	MWM15	3SEM	Linear	Quadratic
pH	5.32	5.49	5.42	5.60	0.084	0.055	0.913
Temperature (°C)	15.18	16.80	14.65	14.77	0.911	0.425	0.428
L* (lightness)	51.32	51.87	50.77	50.86	0.743	0.462	0.762
a*(redness)	4.70	5.10	5.50	5.10	0.190	0.070	0.046
b* (yellowness)	8.74a	10.20b	9.89b	9.60ab	0.235	0.046	0.001
Chroma	9.94a	11.41b	11.33b	10.87ab	0.239	0.018	0.000
Hue angle	1.08	1.11	1.06	1.08	0.017	0.695	0.781
Cooking loss (%)	16.60	17.84	16.02	16.34	1.131	0.614	0.684
Shear force (N)	2.18a	2.39b	2.14a	2.23ab	0.048	0.732	0.318
Thawing loss (%)	3.42	3.38	3.29	3.30	0.170	0.547	0.879
2WHC (%)	6.30	5.63	5.72	5.50	0.307	0.103	0.470

¹Dietary treatments: MWM0 = a commercial grower diet with no mopane worm meal inclusion, MWM5 = a commercial grower diet in which 50 g/kg of soybean products was replaced with mopane worm meal, MWM10 = a commercial grower diet in which 100 g/kg of soybean products was replaced with mopane worm meal, and MWM15 = a commercial grower diet in which 150 g/kg of soybean products was replaced with mopane worm meal.

²HCW = water holding capacity

³SEM = standard error of the mean.