Table 2 Color values of breast meats from a commercial native chicken, white semi broiler, and new native chicken lines

H W Candidate native chicken strains SEM1
A C D
Unskinned (skin) CIE L* 76.44a 75.50ab 72.70b 76.35a 74.74ab 0.84
CIE a* 2.91 3.07 2.13 3.26 3.37 0.41
CIE b* 11.78 10.37 6.25 10.73 11.26 0.97
Skinned (muscle) CIE L* 54.28 52.92 56.48 54.41 56.37 1.12
CIE a* 3.26ab 3.07ab 4.67a 4.39a 2.36b 0.40
CIE b* 6.04ab 4.93b 6.79ab 6.11ab 7.55a 0.46
H: Hanhyup No.3; W: White Semi broiler; A, C, D: Candidate native chicken strains from the Golden Seed Project.1 Standard error of the means (n=10).a,b Different letters within the same row differ significantly (P<0.05).