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).