. 2022 Mar 2;35(8):1215–1222. doi: 10.5713/ab.21.0539

Table 7.

The effect of Silymarin supplementation on organ weight and meat quality in broilers

Items	Silymarin				SEM	p-value

	0%	0.02%	0.04%	0.06%		Linear	Quadratic
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Relative organ weight (%)
Breast muscle	18.86^b	19.39^b	19.41^a	19.63^a	0.52	0.023	0.191
Liver	2.55	2.47	2.39	2.40	0.10	0.132	0.473
Spleen	0.14^a	0.14^a	0.13^b	0.13^b	0.01	0.001	0.051
Abdominal fat	1.12	1.10	0.82	0.81	0.14	0.084	0.854
Bursa of Fabricius	0.17	0.16	0.16	0.18	0.10	0.047	0.315
Gizzard	1.32	1.35	1.23	1.28	0.02	0.122	0.325
Breast muscle color
Lightness (L*)	52.00	54.85	52.01	53.14	1.16	0.473	0.226
Redness (a*)	12.89	14.43	14.26	14.58	0.69	0.334	0.715
Yellowness (b*)	12.36	15.60	14.45	14.01	1.01	0.592	0.072
pH value	5.51^b	5.50^ab	5.62^ab	5.85^a	0.10	0.012	0.439
Cooking loss (%)	28.09	28.73	30.98	28.97	1.52	0.505	0.759
WHC (%)	53.62	49.45	54.30	55.20	2.43	0.018	0.788
Drip loss (%)
Day 1	1.72^a	2.24^a	1.68^b	1.64^b	0.22	0.001	0.863
Day 3	3.71^ab	4.01^a	3.60^b	3.65^b	0.29	0.001	0.605
Day 5	6.00^a	5.73^a	5.64^b	5.66^b	0.25	0.033	0.154
Day 7	7.42^a	7.52^a	7.20^b	7.18^b	0.30	0.007	0.718

SEM, standard error of means; WHC, water holding capacity.

^a,b

Means in the same row with different superscripts differ (p<0.05).