Table 1. Physicochemical properties of the sucuk samples during ripening period.

Batches	Ripening period (d)
	1st	6th	12th
Moisture (%)
S1	55.63Abc±1.42	45.18Ba±3.23	36.74Ca±1.70
S2	57.13Aab±0.54	46.56Ba±0.99	35.40Ca±2.67
S3	57.77Aa±1.88	45.54Ba±2.66	35.46Ca±1.46
S4	57.41Aab±0.77	46.40Ba±1.81	35.82Ca±0.66
S5	57.76Aa±0.70	46.74Ba±4.03	37.73Ca±2.45
S6	56.97Aabc±1.35	46.56Ba±1.69	37.48Ca±0.70
S7	54.99Ac±0.75	46.84Ba±1.49	38.45Ca±0.12
S8	56.76Aabc±0.44	47.18Ba±1.45	37.44Ca±1.76
pH
S1	5.84Aa±0.05	5.01Ba±0.16	5.08Ba±0.10
S2	5.86Aa±0.03	4.74Bb±0.02	4.90Ba±0.17
S3	5.86Aa±0.02	4.75Bb±0.05	4.90Ba±0.17
S4	5.85Aa±0.03	4.76Cb±0.04	4.92Ba±0.07
S5	5.84Aa±0.04	4.80Bb±0.01	4.98Ba±0.13
S6	5.87Aa±0.01	4.98Ba±0.02	5.13Ba±0.17
S7	5.88Aa±0.01	5.01Ba±0.04	5.06Ba±0.11
S8	5.88Aa±0.01	4.99Ba±0.05	5.08Ba±0.16
aw
S1	0.962Aa±0.003	0.937Bab±0.003	0.891Cb±0.015
S2	0.961Aa±0.003	0.920Bc±0.005	0.876Cc±0.010
S3	0.964Aa±0.001	0.932Bb±0.003	0.891Cb±0.004
S4	0.964Aa±0.001	0.938Bab±0.002	0.895Cab±0.003
S5	0.963Aa±0.002	0.938Bab±0.006	0.900Cab±0.006
S6	0.965Aa±0.003	0.943Ba±0.004	0.904Cab±0.007
S7	0.961Aa±0.002	0.942Ba±0.004	0.903Cab±0.005
S8	0.963Aa±0.002	0.943Ba±0.005	0.907Ca±0.003
Residual nitrite (ppm)
S1	80.6Aa±3.8	15.6Ba±1.7	14.6Bab±0.5
S2	54.7Ac±5.0	9.4Bb±2.2	8.1Bc±0.8
S3	53.3Ac±5.5	9.1Bb±2.2	8.8Bc±1.1
S4	71.0Ab±3.1	9.0Bb±1.6	9.8Bc±0.2
S5	68.6Ab±3.2	10.1Bb±1.9	8.2Bc±1.1
S6	78.2Aa±2.3	14.9Ba±2.2	14.9Bab±3.4
S7	79.4Aa±1.6	16.1Ba±0.2	15.5Ba±0.4
S8	80.9Aa±4.6	14.5Ba±1.4	13.5Bb±1.1

S1, Control; S2, LAB; S3, LAB+C. zeylanoides; S4, LAB+D. hansenii; S5, LAB+C. zeylanoides+D. hansenii; S6, C. zeylanoides; S7, D. hansenii; S8, C. zeylanoides+D. hansenii.

^A–CThe uppercase within the same line show that the results are not significantly different (p>0.05).

^a-cThe lowercase within the same column show that the results are not significantly different (p>0.05) for physicochemical properties of sucuk samples.