. 2022 Apr 13;12(8):1007. doi: 10.3390/ani12081007

Table 6.

Diterpene profile and pigments in breast and thigh meats of broilers (n = 10).

	Dietary Treatments ¹				SEM ²	p-Value
Item	Control	LA	LAR	LAE	SEM ²	p-Value
Breast
Malondialdehyde (mg/kg)
day 0	-	-	-	-	-	-
day 6	-	-	-	-	-	-
Diterpene profile (µg/g)
α-Tocopherol	5.14	5.12	4.68	4.52	0.330	0.448
γ-Tocopherol	0.072 ^a	0.055 ^b	0.048 ^b	0.052 ^b	0.0030	<0.001
Pigments (µg/100 g) ³
Chlorophyll a	16.2 ^b	32.6 ^a	29.8 ^a	32.6 ^a	2.66	<0.001
Chlorophyll b	28.2 ^b	48.0 ^a	48.0 ^a	55.5 ^a	3.73	<0.001
Total chlorophylls	44.3 ^b	80.7 ^a	81.2 ^a	88.1 ^a	6.25	<0.001
Total carotenoids	36.9 ^b	49.2 ^a	54.1 ^a	48.5 ^a	2.97	0.002
Total chlorophylls + carotenoids	81.3 ^b	130 ^a	135 ^a	137 ^a	6.63	<0.001
Thigh
Malondialdehyde (mg/kg)
day 0	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	-	-
day 6	0.702	0.405	0.480	0.153	0.154	0.111
Diterpene profile (µg/g)
α-Tocopherol	7.60	7.47	6.56	6.38	0.404	0.085
γ-Tocopherol	0.075 ^a	0.068 ^a,b	0.062 ^a,b	0.060 ^b	0.0038	0.030
Pigments (µg/100 g) ²
Chlorophyll a	17.4 ^b	28.0 ^a	29.4 ^a	27.5 ^a	1.61	<0.001
Chlorophyll b	29.5 ^b	46.3 ^a	50.7 ^a	44.8 ^a	3.31	<0.001
Total chlorophylls	46.9 ^b	74.3 ^a	80.1 ^a	72.3 ^a	4.85	<0.001
Total carotenoids	35.5 ^b	49.2 ^a	49.2 ^a	54.2 ^a	3.21	0.002
Total chlorophylls + carotenoids	82.4 ^b	123 ^a	129 ^a	126 ^a	5.25	<0.001

¹ Control, corn–soybean basal diet; LA, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata; LAR, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata + 0.005% Rovabio^® Excel AP; LAE, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata + 0.01% recombinant CAZyme. ² SEM, standard error of the mean. ³ Pigments were determined using the equations described by Hynstova et al. [29]. ^a,b Different superscript letters within a row indicate a significant difference (p < 0.05).