Table 5 Descriptive sensory analysis and overall acceptance of breast and thigh meat obtained from different Korean native chicken breeds

Savory taste1 Chickeny smell1 Tenderness2 Texture3 Number ofchewing4 Overallacceptability5
Breast CKNC 5.00b 5.00a 5.00b 5.00a 24.33ab 5.00ab
Broiler 5.60a 4.33b 4.13c 4.60ab 22.75b 5.47a
2A 3.93c 5.27a 5.80a 3.93b 26.08a 3.67c
2C 5.20ab 4.67b 5.07b 5.40a 24.75ab 5.33a
2D 4.73b 5.07a 5.20b 4.73ab 25.67a 4.60b
SEM6 0.169 0.187 0.156 0.260 0.775 0.175
Thigh CKNC 5.00ab 5.00ab 5.00a 5.00a 22.33ab 5.00ab
Broiler 4.33b 5.13a 3.47c 3.27b 19.75b 3.80b
2A 4.20b 4.53b 4.93a 5.40a 22.33ab 4.67b
2C 5.33a 4.80ab 4.40b 4.87a 21.58ab 5.33a
2D 4.60b 5.20a 4.93a 5.27a 22.58a 4.73b
SEM6 0.215 0.152 0.142 0.161 0.706 0.175
1 Extremely weak: 1, neither weak nor strong: 5, extremely strong: 9.
2 Extremely tender: 1, neither dislike nor tender: 5, extremely tough: 9.
3 Extremely crumbly: 1, neither dislike nor chewy: 5, extremely chewy: 9.
4 Number of chewing to swallow.
5Extremely dislike: 1, neither dislike nor like: 5, extremely like: 9.
6 Standard error of the means (n=50).
CKNC: Commercial Korean native chicken, CB: Commercial broiler, 2A, 2C, and 2D: New crossbreds Korean native chicken.
a∼c Mean with different letters within the same column with the same portion differ significantly (P<0.05).