Table 2. pH, water holding capacity (WHC), cooking loss (CL), drip loss (DL) and shear force of the breast and thigh meat from commercial broiler, Korean hanhyup-3 broiler and organic chicken

Traits Breast Thigh
Broiler HH3 KOC Broiler HH3 KOC
pH 6.15±0.01b 5.96±0.01c 6.24±0.01a 6.63±0.00b 6.35±0.00c 6.82±0.01a
WHC (%) 63.76±0.06b 62.08±0.57b 66.97±0.91a 63.99±1.19b 56.76±1.10c 69.22±0.64a
CL (%) 19.07±0.15b 22.35±0.99a 18.68±0.72b 21.65±0.77b 25.63±0.85a 20.37±0.29b
DL (%) 2.38±0.64 3.26±1.11 2.16±0.87 2.42±0.61b 4.03±0.50a 1.79±0.21b
Shear force (kg) 0.52±0.09b 0.78±0.08a 0.74±0.09a 0.53±0.07 0.59±0.10 0.56±0.09
HH3: Korean hynhyup-3 broiler, KOC: Korean organic chicken.
Least square means with different letters within the same row are significantly different (P<0.05).