. 2020 Dec 7;10(12):2330. doi: 10.3390/ani10122330

Table 2.

Lightness (L*), redness (a*) and yellowness (b*) mean values of hamburgers produced with chicken breast of Ross broiler chickens (AP95) without myopathies and affected by wooden breast myopathy after different storage periods.

L*
A (n = 20) ¹	SD (n = 20) ²			p-value
A (n = 20) ¹	Normal	Moderate	Severe	p-value
Start	52.87 ± 0.49 ^Ec	57.70 ± 0.51 ^Cb	60.03 ± 0.49 ^Ca
30 days	58.61 ± 0.49 ^Cb	62.86 ± 0.49 ^Aa	64.11 ± 0.64 ^Aa	(SD)	<0.000
60 days	64.91 ± 0.49 ^Aa	63.65 ± 0.49 ^Aab	62.63 ± 0.49 ^ABb	(A)	<0.0001
90 days	60.01 ± 0.49 ^Bb	58.78 ± 0.46 ^Cb	62.12 ± 0.52 ^Ba	(SD × A)	<0.0001
120 days	57.13 ± 0.49 ^Dc	60.47 ± 0.44 ^Ba	59.13 ± 0.40 ^Cb
a*
A (n = 20) ¹	Normal	Moderate	Severe	p-value
Start	0.34 ± 0.10 ^ABb	1.40 ± 0.10 ^Aa	1.35 ± 0.10 ^Ba
30 days	0.55 ± 0.10 ^Ab	1.21 ± 0.11 ^Aa	1.35 ± 0.13 ^Ba	(SD)	<0.0001
60 days	0.18 ± 0.10 ^Ba	−0.16 ± 0.10 ^Bb	0.23 ± 0.10 ^Ba	(A)	<0.0001
90 days	−0.26 ± 0.10 ^Cb	0.03 ± 0.10 ^Ba	−1.35 ± 0.11 ^Dc	(SD × A)	<0.0001
120 days	−0.76 ± 0.11 ^Db	−1.15 ± 0.12 ^Cc	2.15 ± 0.10 ^Aa
b*
A (n = 20) ¹	Normal	Moderate	Severe	p-value
Start	7.92 ± 0.27 ^Dc	9.07 ± 0.27 ^Cb	9.95 ± 0.27 ^Ca
30 days	10.37 ± 0.27 ^Bc	11.50 ± 0.27 ^Bb	12.96 ± 0.35 ^ABa	(SD)	<0.0001
60 days	13.28 ± 0.27 ^Aa	12.02 ± 0.27 ^Bb	12.22 ± 0.27 ^Bb	(A)	<0.0001
90 days	9.32 ± 0.27 ^Ca	8.62 ± 0.25 ^Ca	8.92 ± 0.28 ^Da	(SD × A)	<0.0001
120 days	13.67 ± 0.27 ^Aab	14.30 ± 0.24 ^Aa	13.44 ± 0.22 ^Ab

^1/A–E Means followed by different capital letters in the same column differ from each other by the Tukey test (p < 0.05). ^2/a–c Means followed by different lowercase letters on the same line differ from each other by the Tukey test (p < 0.05). A—Storage, SD—Severity degree.