Table 3.

Effects of probiotics and synbiotics addition in sows' diets on meat quality of offspring pigs.

Items	Control	Antibiotic	Probiotics	Synbiotics	SEM	P-values
	group	group	group	group
Marbling score
65 days of age	1.75	1.63	1.38	1.50	0.180	0.502
95 days of age	1.88	1.38	1.25	1.38	0.190	0.120
125 days of age	1.50	1.67	1.25	1.67	0.193	0.376
Meat color score
65 days of age	3.13	2.88	2.75	2.50	0.336	0.620
95 days of age	2.50	2.38	2.38	2.63	0.184	0.740
125 days of age	2.75	3.17	2.50	2.83	0.208	0.188
a*value
65 days of age	19.58	19.11	19.47	18.50	0.617	0.605
95 days of age	18.44b	18.01b	17.12c	19.86a	0.226	<0.0001
125 days of age	18.14	17.89	17.17	17.16	0.499	0.377
b*value
65 days of age	6.87	6.82	7.50	7.05	0.192	0.071
95 days of age	6.72	6.59	6.06	6.47	0.213	0.171
125 days of age	7.07ab	6.50b	7.30a	6.48b	0.187	0.008
L*value
65 days of age	51.01a	50.66a	48.11b	50.75a	0.623	0.008
95 days of age	50.16ab	49.67ab	51.78a	48.50b	0.766	0.041
125 days of age	50.94a	49.49ab	52.35a	47.33b	0.993	0.011
pH 45min
65 days of age	6.55	6.55	6.50	6.52	0.035	0.744
95 days of age	6.54b	6.67ab	6.74a	6.55b	0.037	0.002
125 days of age	6.49	6.63	6.66	6.52	0.054	0.069
pH 24h
65 days of age	5.46	5.49	5.61	5.45	0.053	0.134
95 days of age	5.46	5.44	5.46	5.49	0.013	0.088
125 days of age	5.46	5.53	5.50	5.50	0.025	0.245
Drip loss (%)
65 days of age	6.32a	5.64a	4.41b	2.96c	0.340	<0.0001
95 days of age	3.42	3.35	2.98	2.78	0.313	0.437
125 days of age	4.82	3.31	3.82	3.94	0.485	0.182
Cooking yield (%)
65 days of age	63.01bc	60.94c	67.02a	65.22ab	1.087	0.003
95 days of age	70.92	69.26	70.99	68.53	0.806	0.098
125 days of age	68.57b	78.41a	68.50b	66.94b	2.331	0.012
Shear force (N)
65 days of age	61.50b	62.96b	58.73b	75.28a	2.311	<0.0001
95 days of age	73.25	64.61	65.74	70.82	2.936	0.143
125 days of age	91.94b	101.74a	77.14c	84.41c	2.516	<0.0001

Data are presented as means with pooled SEM. Values in the same row with different superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05). The replicates per group at 65 and 95 days of age were 8; at 125 days of age, the replicates of the control group, antibiotic group, probiotics group, and synbiotics group were 8, 6, 8, and 6, respectively.

a^*, redness;

b^*, yellowness;

L^*, lightness.