. 2020 Nov 11;25(22):5260. doi: 10.3390/molecules25225260

Table 2.

Water activity (a_w) of Atlantic horse mackerel burgers coated with different film formulations (control without coating film, chitosan, sea fennel plant (SFP) incorporated in a chitosan-based film and sea fennel extract (SFE) incorporated in a chitosan-based film) and stored at 4 °C for 12 days.

	Storage (Days)
Edible Coating	0	4	8	12
Control	^A 0.9928 ± 0.0002 ^c	^A 0.9916 ± 0.0009 ^b	^A 0.9928 ± 0.0028 ^c	^A 0.9855 ± 0.0037 ^a
Chitosan	^A 0.9907 ± 0.0003 ^b	^A 0.9835 ± 0.0017 ^a	^A 0.9888 ± 0.0001 ^ab	^A 0.9875 ± 0.0048 ^a
SFP	^A 0.9901 ± 0.0007 ^b	^A 0.9901 ± 0.0003 ^b	^A 0.9894 ± 0.0015 ^b	^A 0.9905 ± 0.0016 ^a
SFE	^A 0.9869 ± 0.0011 ^a	^A 0.9814 ± 0.0031 ^a	^A 0.9859 ± 0.0000 ^a	^A 0.9875 ± 0.0033 ^a

Values (mean ± standard deviation, n = 3) followed by a different uppercase letter in the same row are significantly different (p < 0.05). Values (mean ± standard deviation, n = 3) followed by a different lowercase letter in the same column are significantly different (p < 0.05).