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. 2019 Dec 30;99(1):479–486. doi: 10.3382/ps/pez542

Table 5.

Effect of supplemental pine needles powder on carcass yield and pH of breast meat.

	Dietary treatment						Significance (P-value)
Item	Control	P1 _0.25%	P2 _0.50%	P3 _0.75%	P4 _1%	SEM¹	Combine	Linear	Quadratic	Cubic
Carcass yield (%)	72.73	72.83	73.23	73.88	73.44	0.137	0.058	0.010	0.457	0.137
pH d-1	6.04^a	5.84^b	5.90^b	5.94^a,b	5.92^b	0.015	<0.001	0.086	0.002	<0.001
pH d-10	6.06	6.09	6.15	6.17	6.12	0.015	0.194	0.075	0.137	0.404

¹

Standard error of mean.

Different superscript letters (a, b) within the same row indicate significant differences between experimental groups (P < 0.05).